“Scriptural Style in Early-Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

“Scriptural Style in Early-Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

 

Battle of Bunker Hill (Moran)
The inspiration for the “Nephites”?
Percy Moran, “The Battle of Bunker Hill” (1909)
Wikimedia Commons public domain; click to enlarge

 

Some critics of Mormonism have triumphantly announced that they’ve identified Joseph Smith’s source for his Book of Mormon . . .  in a book called The Late War, and/or in a book called The American Revolution.  (Their theory doesn’t account for the Witnesses, or correlations between the Book of Mormon and its claimed setting in Pre-Columbian America and the ancient Near East, and so forth.  It ignores those matters.)

 

On 7 August 2014, in that year’s FairMormon conference, Matt Roper and Paul Fields responded to such claims:

 

http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2014-fairmormon-conference/scriptural-style-in-early-nineteenth-century-american-literature

 

Posted from Richmond, Virginia

 

 


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