Purported Plagiarism
Critics claim that Joseph Smith fabricated the Book of Mormon, and that it was not divinely inspired. Critics specifically cite four books that Joseph Smith could have used to obtain verses for the Book of Mormon:
- View of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith (first published 1823, seven years before the Book of Mormon)
- The Wonders of Nature by Josiah Priest (published in 1826, five years before the Book of Mormon)
- The Bible
- Apocrypha
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