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Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of scripture use
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Scriptures cited by both works
KJV scripture | VoH Page | BoM Use? | Comments and/or text (as it appears in View of the Hebrews) |
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Isaiah 6:11 |
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Isaiah 11:1 |
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Isaiah 11:11 |
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Isaiah 11:15 |
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Isaiah 14:1 |
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Isaiah 49:18-23 |
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Isaiah 49:18-22 |
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Isaiah 11:12 |
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Isaiah 11:12 |
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Isaiah 11:13 |
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Isaiah 49:21 |
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Isaiah 3:18-21 |
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Isaiah 3:24-25 |
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Isaiah 11: |
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Isaiah 5:26 |
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Isaiah 7:18 |
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Isaiah 5:13 |
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Isaiah 7:8 |
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Isaiah 10:20-22 |
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Isaiah 49:1,11-13 |
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Isaiah 11:12 |
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Isaiah 11:13 |
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Isaiah cited only by Ethan Smith
KJV scripture | VoH Page | Comments and/or text (as it appears in View of the Hebrews) |
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Isaiah 60: |
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Isaiah 66:30 |
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Isaiah 65:7 |
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Isaiah 65:8-9 |
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Isaiah 56:8 |
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Isaiah 63:17-18 |
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Isaiah 63:1-6 |
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Isaiah 63:1-6 |
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Isaiah 63:13 |
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Isaiah 28:1,3,8 |
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Isaiah 28:5 |
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Isaiah 18: |
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Isaiah 43:1-2 |
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Isaiah 43:4 |
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Isaiah 43:16 |
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Isaiah 43:19 |
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Isaiah 60:9 |
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Isaiah 66:18-21, &c. |
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Isaiah 36:19 |
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Isaiah 18:1 |
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Isaiah 26:3 |
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Isaiah 26:19 |
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Isaiah 28:2 |
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Isaiah 60: |
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Isaiah 44:3-4 |
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Isaiah 59:21 |
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Isaiah 40:1 |
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Isaiah 35:1 |
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Isaiah 35:5 |
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Isaiah 42:19-20 |
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Isaiah 51:3 |
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Isaiah 41:14 |
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Questionable parallels
A few scriptures are alluded to by View of the Hebrews, but it is difficult to see them as actual parallels in the use of scripture, since one is a grammatic example ignored by the Book of Mormon, and one is a reference to John the Baptist. Joseph Smith would be far more likely to know the reference to John the Baptist from the New Testament than he would to crib the idea from Ethan Smith's use of the Old Testament:
KJV scripture | VoH Page | BoM Use? | Comments and/or text (as it appears in View of the Hebrews) |
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Isaiah 40:3 |
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Isaiah 55:1 |
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(VoH does not cite verse directly.) |
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Endnotes
- [note] The complex mix of scriptures on pp. 232–233; some are in the Book of Mormon, but most are not. Why would Joseph pick out Isaiah 11 in the midst of this complex argument, and ignore Isaiah 43 and Isaiah 60, which are a much larger part of Ethan Smith's argument?
- [note] NB that Ethan Smith insists this is about America. Why not in Joseph’s work then, since this would be tailor made for the purpose which critics claim motivates Joseph's cribbing?