Golden Pot theory of Book of Mormon authorship

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Criticism

Former LDS Institute teacher Grant Palmer argues that Joseph Smith developed his story of visits by Moroni and the translation of a sacred book from The Golden Pot, a book by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann.

Source(s) of the Criticism

• Grant H. Palmer, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002), chapter 5.

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

• Book of Mormon historicity
• Book of Mormon witnesses
• Joseph Smith and money digging
• Joseph Smith and seer stones
• Joseph Smith and the occult

FAIR web site

• Reviews of Grant Palmer and An Insider's View of Mormon Origins

External links

• James B. Allen, "Asked and Answered: A Response to Grant H. Palmer (Review of An Insiders View of Mormon Origins," FARMS Review of Books 16/1 (2004): 235–286.*
• E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Flower Pot, online text at blackmask.com (accessed 5 October 2005).
• Jeff Lindsay, "Plagiarism in the Book of Mormon: Is It Derived from Modern Writings?, jefflindsay.com (accessed 5 October 2005).
• Daniel C. Peterson, "Editor's Introduction]: Of 'Galileo Events,' Hype, and Suppression: Or, Abusing Science and Its History," FARMS Review of Books 15/2 (2003): ix–lxii.*
• Mark Ashurst-McGee, "A One-sided View of Mormon Origins," FARMS Review of Books 15/2 ({{{date}}}): 309–364.*
• Davis Bitton, "The Charge of a Man with a Broken Lance (But Look What He Doesn't Tell Us)," FARMS Review of Books 15/2 (2003): 257–272.*
• Steven C. Harper, "Trustworthy History?," FARMS Review of Books 15/2 (2003): 273–308.*
• Louis Midgley, "Prying into Palmer," FARMS Review of Books 15/2 ({{{date}}}): 365–410.*
• Group, "Statement from the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History on Grant Palmer's work," FARMS Review of Books 15/2 ({{{date}}}): 255–256.*