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Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"
| Claims made in "Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel" | A FAIR Analysis of: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith A work by author: Fawn Brodie
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Claims made in "Chapter 5: Witnesses for God" |
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- Response to claim: 53 - Joseph warned Martin Harris that God's wrath would strike him down if he examined the plates
- Response to claim: 53 - Harris once tried to trick Joseph by substituting an ordinary stone for the seer stone
- Response to claim: 54 - Lucy Harris stole the manuscript and "neither pleas nor blows could make her divulge its hiding place"
- Response to claim: 54 - Joseph realized that he could not duplicate the 116 pages exactly
- Response to claim: 55 - Joseph's family was counting on sales of the Book of Mormon to prevent foreclosure on their farm
- Response to claim: 55 - Once Joseph had translated the small plates of Nephi, he could go back to the old plates and carry on
- Response to claim: 58 - The Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon were "chiefly those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews
- Response to claim: 58 - Joseph was careful to modify primarily the italicized interpolation in the King James text
- Response to claim: 58 - Joseph incorporated one of his father's dreams into the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 59 - Early in the writing Joseph vigorously attacked the Catholic Church as the "great and abominable church" and the "whore of all the earth"
- Response to claim: 60 - Lucy Smith's stories about the Golden Bible had converted Oliver Cowdery
- Response to claim: 62 - Joseph Smith's lack of education is "a favorite thesis designed to prove the authenticity" of the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 62-63 - Joseph Smith borrowed many stories from the Bible
- Response to claim: 63 - Joseph's sentence structure in the Book of Mormon was "loose-jointed, like an earthworm hacked into segments that crawl away alive and whole"
- Response to claim: 65 - The story of the Gadianton band reflects the anti-Masonic feelings in New York at the time that the Book of Mormon was produced