Joseph Smith/Translator

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Criticism

Critics claim that Joseph Smith claimed to translate other texts or items, which can be checked against modern academic translations. They claim that this "cross-checking" proves that Joseph could not have translated the Book of Mormon or other ancient texts.

Source(s) of the Criticism

• Henry Caswall, The City of the Mormons, or, Three Days at Nauvoo (London: J.F.G. & J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard and Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1842), 5, 35–36.
• Henry Caswall, The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century (London: J.F.G. & J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard and Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1843), 223.
• Henry Caswall, America and the American Church, 2d ed. (London: John and Charles Mozley, 1851);
• Henry Caswall, Mormonism and Its Author; or, A Statement of the Doctrines of the "Latter-Day Saints" (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1851)
• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 290. ( Index of claims )
• Grant H. Palmer, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002) 34–35. ( Index of claims )

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