Volume 20, No. 1
Spring 1987
Contents
Articles/Essays
The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source
Blake T. OstlerDialogue 20.1 (Spring 1987): 69–75
EVEN A CASUAL REFERENCE to studies treating the Book of Mormon reveals a range of divergent explanations of its origins. At one extreme are those who are skeptical of the book’s claims to antiquity who generally conclude that it is a pious fraud, written by Joseph Smith from information available in his immediate environment.
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