“BYU professor discusses ‘Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects'”

Last updated on: November 1, 2015 at 9:15 pm by Dan Peterson

Susquehanna area map — Josiah Stowell (Stoal) lived near Bainbridge, New York, not too far from the Susquehanna River.

It seems to me that critics of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon are confronted by a very difficult challenge in the primary source documents and early accounts of the Restoration — such that they have to devote a great deal of time and effort to attempts to explain those documents away, to show that they don’t really say what they clearly do seem to say.

Here’s a report on a recent lecture devoted to this subject:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865640189/BYU-professor-discusses-Tangible-Interactions-with-Book-of-Mormon-Objects.html?pg=all#kogsIyxH0wlFO8lb.01

I too have been impressed with the account of Josiah Stoal, with which I hadn’t been familiar until very recently, and I highlighted it in a column that I published back in June:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865631371/From-Darkness-unto-Light-takes-a-fresh-look-at-recovery-publication-of-the-Book-of-Mormon.html

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