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''Sources which accept the Spalding manuscript theory:'' | ''Sources which accept the Spalding manuscript theory:'' | ||
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Ohio Repository:1 September 1836:History of Mormanism|pages=??}} {{an|Does not attribute some work to Rigdon, who is said to be a convert only after the book's publication.}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Wayne Sentinel:20 December 1833|pages=??}} {{earliest}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Michigan Sentinel:3 May 1834:Mormon Book|pages=??}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Chardon Spectator:12 April 1834:Mormon Trial|pages=??}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:New York Weekly Messenger:29 April 1835:Mormonism|pages=??}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Philadelphia Mirror:22 August 1836:Mormonism Its History|pages=??}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Trumpet and Universalist Magazine:3 September 1836:Origin of the Mormon Bible|pages=??}} |
* {{CriticalWork:Bachelor:Mormonism Exposed|pages=1}} | * {{CriticalWork:Bachelor:Mormonism Exposed|pages=1}} | ||
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Campbell:Mormonism Unveiled|pages=44-45}} {{an|Campbell here abandons his earlier certainty that Joseph Smith alone was responsible for the Book of Mormon.}} |
* {{CriticalWork:Caswall:Prophet of the Nineteenth Century|pages=13–25}} | * {{CriticalWork:Caswall:Prophet of the Nineteenth Century|pages=13–25}} | ||
− | *{{CriticalWork:Clark:Gleanings by the Way|pages=246–254}}. | + | * {{CriticalWork:Clark:Gleanings by the Way|pages=246–254}}. |
− | * Clericus | + | * {{CriticalWork:Clericus:Mormonism|pages=1}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Griffiths:Two Years Residence|pages=134–140}} |
* {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=277–}} {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=852&REC=6}}. | * {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=277–}} {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=852&REC=6}}. | ||
− | *{{CriticalWork:Linn:Story of the Mormons|pages=??}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Linn:Story of the Mormons|pages=??}} |
− | *{{CriticalWork:Livesey:Exposure of Mormonism|pages=4–5}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Livesey:Exposure of Mormonism|pages=4–5}} |
* {{CriticalWork:M'Chesney:Antidote to Mormonism|pages=18, 49}} | * {{CriticalWork:M'Chesney:Antidote to Mormonism|pages=18, 49}} | ||
* {{CriticalWork:Stenhouse:Tell It All|pages=267}} | * {{CriticalWork:Stenhouse:Tell It All|pages=267}} | ||
− | *{{CriticalWork:Wyl:Mormon Portraits Volume First|pages=20, 118, 122–124, 238–243}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Wyl:Mormon Portraits Volume First|pages=20, 118, 122–124, 238–243}} |
− | *{{CriticalWork:Tucker:Origin Rise and Progress|pages=111–128}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Tucker:Origin Rise and Progress|pages=111–128}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Painsville Telegraph:31 January 1834:To the Public|pages=??}} |
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''Claimed the existence of a '''second''' Spalding manuscript when the first theory failed:'' | ''Claimed the existence of a '''second''' Spalding manuscript when the first theory failed:'' | ||
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:Arbaugh:Revelation in Mormonism|pages=?}} |
− | *{{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 1|pages=1–}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 1|pages=1–}} |
− | *{{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 2|pages=1–}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 2|pages=1–}} |
− | *{{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=213, n15-16}} | + | * {{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=213, n15-16}} |
− | * | + | * {{CriticalWork:West:Few Interesting Facts|pages=15-16}} |
− | *{{CriticalWork:Williams:Mormonism Exposed|pages=1-2}} (citing ''Mormonism Unvailed'') | + | * {{CriticalWork:Williams:Mormonism Exposed|pages=1-2}} (citing ''Mormonism Unvailed'') |
Revision as of 14:28, 20 April 2010
Source(s) of the Criticism
Sources which accept the Spalding manuscript theory:
- “History of Mormanism,” The Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) (1 September 1836). Reprinted from New York Commercial Advertiser, circa August 1836. off-site
Does not attribute some work to Rigdon, who is said to be a convert only after the book's publication. - “The Mormon Mystery Developed,” Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, New York) (20 December 1833). off-site [the earliest mention of this concept which FAIR has identified]
- “The Mormon Book,” Michigan Sentinel (3 May 1834). off-site
- “Mormon Trial,” Chardon Spectator and Geauga Gazette (12 April 1834). off-site
- “Mormonism,” New York Weekly Messenger and Young Men’s Advocate (29 April 1835). Reprinted from The Pioneer (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. off-site
- “Mormonism—Its History,” Philadelphia Mirror (22 August 1836). off-site
- “Origin of the Mormon Bible,” Trumpet and Universalist Magazine (Boston) (3 September 1836). off-site
- Origen Bachelor, Mormonism Exposed Internally and Externally (New York: Privately Published, 1838), 1. off-site
- A[lexander] Campbell, “Mormonism Unveiled,” Millennial Harbinger (Bethany, Virginia) 6, no. 1 (January 1835): 44-45. off-site
Campbell here abandons his earlier certainty that Joseph Smith alone was responsible for the Book of Mormon. - Henry Caswall, The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century, or, the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints : To Which Is Appended an Analysis of the Book of Mormon (London: Printed for J. G. F. & J. Rivington, 1843), 13–25. off-site
- Rev. John A. Clark, Gleanings by the Way, (Philadelphia: W.J. and J.K. Simon; New York: Robert Carter, 1842), 246–254 off-site.
- Clericus, “Mormonism,” Christian Register (Boston) 15, no. 52 (24 December 1836): 1. Reprinted from Hampshire Gazette, circa December 1836. (Cites Mormonism Unvailed). off-site
- D. Griffiths, Jun., Two Years’ Residence in the New Settlements of Ohio, North America: With Directions to Emigrants (London: Westley and Davis, 1835), 134–140. off-site
- Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 277–. (Affidavits examined) off-site.
- William Alexander Linn, The Story of the Mormons (New York: Macmillan, 1902), ??.
- Richard Livesey, An Exposure of Mormonism, being a statement of facts relating to the self-styled “Latter day Saints,” and the Origin of the Book of Mormon (Preston: J. Livesey, 1838), 4–5. off-site
- James M’Chesney, An Antidote To Mormonism, revised by G. J. Bennet (New York, NY: Burnett & Pollard, 1838), 18, 49. off-site Full title
- Stenhouse, "Tell It All", 267.
- Wilhelm Wyl, Mormon Portraits Volume First: Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), 20, 118, 122–124, 238–243.
- Pomeroy Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress: of Mormonism.... (New York: D. Appleton, 1867), 111–128.
- “To the Public,” Painesville Telegraph (Painesville, Ohio) (31 January 1834). off-site
Claimed the existence of a second Spalding manuscript when the first theory failed:
- George B. Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932), ?.
- Howard A. Davis, Wayne L. Cowdrey, and Walter Martin, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? (Santa Ana, Ca.: Vision House Publishers, 1977), 1–. Analysis
- Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. Davis, and Arthur Vanick, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma. (St. Louis: Concordia, 2005), 1–. Analysis
- Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1997), 213, n15-16. ( Index of claims )
- William S. West, A Few Interesting Facts, Respecting the Rise Progress and Pretensions of the Mormons (1837), 15-16. off-site
- S. Williams, Mormonism Exposed (1838), 1-2. off-site (citing Mormonism Unvailed)