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Book of Mormon/Geography/New World/Great Lakes geography/Mound Builders
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Contents
Criticism
Critics claim that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon to explain local legends associated with the "Moundbuilders" of the Eastern United States.
Source(s) of the criticism
- Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), Chapter 3.
- Robert Silverberg, The Mound Builders (Ohio University Press, 1986), 68-73.
- Stephen Williams, Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)
Response
Conclusion
Endnotes
None
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
FAIR web site
- FairMormon Topical Guide: Zelph FairMormon link
- FairMormon Topical Guide: Archaeology and the Book of Mormon FairMormon link
External links
- Diane E. Wirth, "Review of Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory by Stephen Williams," FARMS Review of Books 4/1 (1992): 251–253. off-site
- John L. Sorenson, "Review of Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory by Stephen Williams," FARMS Review of Books 4/1 (1992): 254–257. off-site
Printed material
- David A. Palmer, In Search of Cumorah (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1981),82 ISBN 0882907832