Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Metals/CriticalSources

Source(s) of the Criticism

  • Origen Bachelor, Mormonism Exposed Internally and Externally (New York: Privately Published, 1838), 14. off-site
    "And what kind of metal is ziff! Come, Joseph, on with thy goggles, and translate thy translation, and tell us what ziff means."
  • Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 24–25, 45. (Affidavits examined)
  • James H. Hunt, Mormonism: Embracing the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Sect (St. Louis: Ustick and Davies, 1844), 22-23. off-site
  • James H. Hunt, Mormonism: Embracing the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Sect (St. Louis: Ustick and Davies, 1844), 21-22. off-site
  • Stuart Martin, The Mystery of Mormonism (London: Odhams Press, 1920), 44.
  • Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1997), 205. ( Index of claims )
  • Parley P. Pratt to Oliver Cowdery, 26 May 1836, "[No title]," Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 2 no. 8 (May 1836), 318–20. off-site
    Discusses Pratt's missionary encounter with this criticism.
  • Latayne Colvett Scott, The Mormon Mirage : a former Mormon tells why she left the church (Grand Rapids : Zondervan Pub. House, 1979), 83
  • Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 199. ( Index of claims )