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* Paul R. Cheesman, ''Ancient Writing on Metal Plates'' (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1985). | * Paul R. Cheesman, ''Ancient Writing on Metal Plates'' (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1985). | ||
* {{Ensign|author=Paul R. Cheesman|article=[http://lds.org/ensign/1979/10/ancient-writing-on-metal-plates Ancient Writing on Metal Plates]|date=October 1979|pages=42–47}} | * {{Ensign|author=Paul R. Cheesman|article=[http://lds.org/ensign/1979/10/ancient-writing-on-metal-plates Ancient Writing on Metal Plates]|date=October 1979|pages=42–47}} | ||
| + | * Ariel L. Crowley, ''About the Book of Mormon'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1961). | ||
| + | * Thomas S. Ferguson, "Gold Plates and the Book of Mormon," ''Improvement Era'' (April 1962): 232—33, 270—71. | ||
| + | * John Gee and John A. Tvedtnes, "Ancient Manuscripts Fit Book of Mormon Pattern," ''Insights'' (February 1999): 3—4. | ||
* Franklin S. Harris Jr., "Others Kept Records on Metal Plates, Too," ''Instructor'' (October 1957): 318–21; later reprinted in pamphlet "Gold Plates Used Anciently" (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1963). | * Franklin S. Harris Jr., "Others Kept Records on Metal Plates, Too," ''Instructor'' (October 1957): 318–21; later reprinted in pamphlet "Gold Plates Used Anciently" (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1963). | ||
* {{Book:Welch Thorne:Pressing Forward|author=William J. Hamblin|article=[http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=98&chapid=1038 Metal Plates and the Book of Mormon]}} | * {{Book:Welch Thorne:Pressing Forward|author=William J. Hamblin|article=[http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=98&chapid=1038 Metal Plates and the Book of Mormon]}} | ||
| − | * William J. Hamblin, "Sacred | + | * William J. Hamblin, "Sacred Writings on Bronze Plates in the Ancient Mediterranean," (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1994). |
* William J. Hamblin, ''Insights'' (July 1994): 2. | * William J. Hamblin, ''Insights'' (July 1994): 2. | ||
* Mark E. Petersen, ''Those Gold Plates!'' (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1979), 4–5. | * Mark E. Petersen, ''Those Gold Plates!'' (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1979), 4–5. | ||
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Source(s) of the criticism
- Anthony A. Hoekema, Mormonism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1963), 89–90.
- John Hyde, Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs, 2nd ed., (New York: W.P. Fetridge & Co., 1857), 217–218
- M.T. Lamb, The Golden Bible: Or, the Book of Mormon. Is It From God? (New York: Ward and Drummond, 1887), 11.: "No such records were ever engraved upon golden plates, or any other plates, in the early ages."
- Stuart Martin, The Mystery of Mormonism (London: Odhams Press, 1920), 27.
- La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” Zion’s Watchman (New York) 3, no. 8 (24 February 1838). "[The Book of Mormon] speaks...of the Jewish Scriptures, having been kept by Jews on plates of brass, six hundred years before Christ. The Jews never kept any of their records on plates of brass." [See reply by Pratt (1838), p. 36.]
- Brent Lee Metcalfe, "Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26 no. 3 (1993), 156–157. [152–184]
Past LDS responses
- William J. Adams Jr., "More on the Silver Plates from Lehi's Jerusalem," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4/2 (1995). [136–137] link
- Paul R. Cheesman, Ancient Writing on Metal Plates (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1985).
- Paul R. Cheesman, "Ancient Writing on Metal Plates," Ensign (October 1979): 42–47.
- Ariel L. Crowley, About the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1961).
- Thomas S. Ferguson, "Gold Plates and the Book of Mormon," Improvement Era (April 1962): 232—33, 270—71.
- John Gee and John A. Tvedtnes, "Ancient Manuscripts Fit Book of Mormon Pattern," Insights (February 1999): 3—4.
- Franklin S. Harris Jr., "Others Kept Records on Metal Plates, Too," Instructor (October 1957): 318–21; later reprinted in pamphlet "Gold Plates Used Anciently" (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1963).
- William J. Hamblin, "Metal Plates and the Book of Mormon," in Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, ed. John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne (Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999). off-site
- William J. Hamblin, "Sacred Writings on Bronze Plates in the Ancient Mediterranean," (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1994).
- William J. Hamblin, Insights (July 1994): 2.
- Mark E. Petersen, Those Gold Plates! (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1979), 4–5.
- Parley P. Pratt, Mormonism Unveiled (New York: O. Pratt and E. Fordham, 1838), 36.
- John A. Tvedtnes, "A Book That Does Not Wear Out," in The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: Out of Darkness Unto Light (Provo: FARMS, 2000). ISBN 978-0934893534.
- H. Curtis Wright, "Ancient Burials of Metallic Foundation Documents in Stone Boxes," in Occasional Papers, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science 157 (1982): 1-42; reprinted with revisions in H. Curtis Wright, "Ancient Burials of Metal Documents in Stone Boxes," in By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 27 March 1990, ed. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990). ISBN 0875793398. Vol. 1 off-site Vol. 2 off-site