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“Temple of Solomon” and Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Response to Robert Boylan (re-post)
Note: This post originally appeared on October 1, 2016, on IRR’s Religious Researcher blog, which no longer exists (in that form). In a recent online article, I explained that the expression temple of Solomon (using the prepositional phrase of Solomon … Continue reading
Moroni’s Marvelous Move from Mesoamerica to Manchester
Robert Boylan, a Mormon apologist blogger, has written a series of blistering attack posts attempting to discredit my book Jesus’ Resurrection and Joseph’s Visions. Boylan has described it as a “joke of a book”[1] and a “mess of a book,”[2] … Continue reading
Joseph Smith and the Many Wives of David and Solomon: Authorized or Abominable?
In all of the debate over Joseph Smith’s teachings and practices regarding polygamy, little attention seems to have been given to an explicit contradiction in his scriptural revelations. This contradiction concerns what the Lord thought of David and Solomon having … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism
Tagged Book of Mormon, David, Joseph Smith, plural marriage, polygamy, Solomon
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Don’t Know Much about Book of Mormon Geography
On January 29, 2019 (yesterday as of the time of this writing), the LDS Church published an article online entitled “Book of Mormon Geography,” another installment in its series of innocuously titled “Gospel Topics” essays. Begun in 2013, this series … Continue reading
Yea, Verily, Yea: The Word Yea and the Book of Mormon’s Imitation of the King James Version
Yesterday I posted a short article here summarizing the first three articles on IRR’s website in a new series entitled “Moroni’s New Testament.” In those articles, I showed that the author of the writings attributed to Moroni in the … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, King James Version, KJV
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Moroni’s New Testament: Proof that the Author of the Book of Mormon Used the King James Version
Many passages of the Book of Mormon are demonstrably dependent on the New Testament. The most obvious use of the New Testament in the Book of Mormon comes in 3 Nephi 12–14, most of which is copied nearly verbatim from … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, King James Version, KJV, Moroni, New Testament
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Is the Expression “Make a Record” Evidence for the Book of Mormon? A Case Study in Testing Mormon Apologetic Arguments
The “Book of Mormon Central” website, founded by LDS scholars Lynne Wilson and John W. Welch in 2015 and operated by the Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum, has quickly become a popular source for apologetic arguments in defense of the … Continue reading
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Tagged appeal to ignorance, Book of Mormon, Ecclesiastes, Michael Fishbane
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An Evangelical Goes to Provo
Every year FairMormon, the most popular pro-LDS apologetics organization, holds a conference at which Mormons, including some scholars from Brigham Young University, defend their beliefs. I attended it in 2012 and this year attended its 2017 conference on August 2nd … Continue reading