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Chiasms
Easter Eggs (Surprise!)
Sundry
The Christ Center

How Was the Book of Mormon Translated?

A Very Strange Text
Witness Accounts
Book of Mormon Translation–The Most Credible Witness Accounts
Who Translated the Book of Mormon?

Linguistic Evidence for an Ancient Text

Plays on Hebrew Words
Chiasms: Writing Forward and Back
Chiasm Centers Reliant on Hebrew (offline)
Surprising Repetition (offline)

Fallibility, Errors, and Other Awkward Topics

Great (but Healthy) Expectations
Negative Evidence (offline)
Waters of Judah or Baptism (offline)
Ships of the Sea or Tarshish (offline)
Major Changes in Isaiah (offline)
The Directors-Interpreters Mystery
The Benjamin-Mosiah “Mistake” (offline)
Grammatical Errors (offline)
Punctuation & Textual Indifference
What is a Burning in the Bosom?
Did Joseph Smith “Study it Out” in His Mind?
The Making of Scripture (Offline)
Reusing or Misapplying Prophecies
Logical Errors and Inconsistencies (offline)
Chiasm Caution
The “Most Correct” Book?

Other Translated or Revealed Texts

The Book of Ether (offline)
The Book of Abraham (offline)
The Kinderhook Plates (Hoax)
The JST and Book of Moses (offline)
The Revelations (offline)

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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Joseph Smith Papers
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Recommended Books

The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text
by Royal Skousen

The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text
by Royal Skousen

By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
by Terryl L. Givens

Understanding the Book of Mormon
by Grant Hardy

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
by Richard Lyman Bushman

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