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<i>Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon</i>

Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon

1985 book by David Persuitte

This article is about a book. For more information on the topics, see Origin of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, Jr.

Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon[1] is a 1985 book by David Persuitte. A second expanded edition was published in 2000. It provides detailed biographical information about Joseph Smith and background information about the origin of the Book of Mormon. In the book, Persuitte provides a large number of parallels in support of the idea that Joseph Smith used an earlier work, View of the Hebrews, as a source of ideas in creating the Book of Mormon.[2]

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One FARMS reviewer, L. Ara Norwood, dubbed Persuitte's book anti-Mormon.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Persuitte, David (2010). Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon (2nd ed.). McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8403-4.
  2. [2]
    Ostler, Blake T. (Spring 1987). "The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 20 (1): 66–123. doi:10.2307/45225539. JSTOR 45225539. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
  3. [3]
    Norwood, L. Ara (1990). "David Persuitte, Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon". Review of Books on the Book of Mormon. 2 (1). ISSN 2156-8022.


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