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'The Truth is the Most Important Thing' : The New Mormon History According to Mark Hofmann
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 1987
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20
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87-96
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This paper explores the question of motive in Mark Hofmann's forgery of early Mormon holographs, and asks why, if Hofmann could have sold non-revisionist documents he chose instead to create and sell revisionist documents. The author identifies the most significant forgeries, and indicates that he was also intending to create at least some of the 116 lost pages of the Book of Mormon. He says that Hofmann's philosophy was basically amoral, based on self-serving convenience. The implication is that Hofmann wanted not only to make money, but to present the 'truth ?as he saw it. This implies that he wrote what he thought was probably the truth, but in the process distorted history.
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Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
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The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith