{"id":39406,"date":"2017-01-26T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39406"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:50:16","slug":"christian-watchman-misguided-jab-bountiful-book-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/christian-watchman-misguided-jab-bountiful-book-mormon.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The &#8216;Christian Watchman&#8217; and Its Misguided Jab at Bountiful in the Book of Mormon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39407\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/View_of_the_Susquehanna_by_Thomas_Doughty_1832.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39407\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39407\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/View_of_the_Susquehanna_by_Thomas_Doughty_1832.jpg\" alt=\"A nice image of the Susquehanna Valley in 1832\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cView of the Susquehanna,\u201d by Thomas Doughty, 1832<br>(BYU Museum of Art, public domain)<br>Apparently, the young scholar Joseph Smith drew on, among others, the vast library resources shown in this painting to compose his \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d (including details about the microgeography of the ancient Arabian Peninsula).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the indispensable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/jeffl\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Lindsay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/the-christian-watchman-and-its.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/the-christian-watchman-and-its.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 From the indispensable Jeff Lindsay: \u00a0 http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/the-christian-watchman-and-its.html \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The &#039;Christian Watchman&#039; 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