Overview
Roberts gave three conditions that would suggest that one book had been derived from another: that the derivative book had appeared after its model, that the author of the derivative book had access to the model, and that the derivative work be similar to the model. Roberts concluded that View of the Hebrews had been published first, that the possibility that Smith had access to it was "a very close certainty," and that there were many similarities between the works. The bulk of Roberts' manuscript considers the similarities between View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon.
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