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Book of Mormon/Synagogues
Contents
Criticism
Critics claim that the Gadianton robbers are thinly disguised references to the anti-Masonic panic of Joseph Smith's era.
Source(s) of the Criticism
- Richard Abanes, Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism (Harvest House Publishers: 2005). 58, 359 n. 50, 51. ( Index of claims )
Response
Conclusion
Endnotes
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
Book of Mormon/Synagogues
FAIR web site
External links
- William J. Adams Jr., "Synagogues in the Book of Mormon," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9/1 (2000). [4–13] link