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El Libro de Mormón/Acusaciones de plagio
Acusaciones de plagio y el Libro de Mormón
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Critics look to numerous contemporary sources to explain how Joseph Smith was able to produce the Book of Mormon.
The following contemporary sources are claimed by various critics to be sources for the Book of Mormon.
Apocrypha
Sumario: It is claimed that Joseph Smith created the story of Nephi and Laban by plagiarizing concepts and phrases from the story of Judith and Holofernes in the Apocrypha. It is also claimed that Joseph Smith copied the name "Nephi" from the Apocrypha.Benjamin based on Bishop M'Kendree, a Methodist revivalist?
Sumario: Former LDS Church Education System (CES) teacher Grant Palmer argues that Joseph Smith used the speech of a revivalist preacher—Benjamin—as the source for his "King Benjamin" in the El Libro de Mormón.The Comoros Islands
Sumario: Comoros is a small nation made up of three islands off the southeast coast of Africa. Its capital city is Moroni. Some critics have claimed that Joseph Smith created the El Libro de Mormón names Cumorah and Moroni by copying them from a map of the Comoros islands.The King James Bible
Sumario: Critics of the El Libro de Mormón claim that major portions of it are copied, without attribution, from the Bible. They present this as evidence that Joseph Smith wrote the El Libro de Mormón by plagiarizing the Authorized ("King James") Version of the Bible.The Golden Pot
Sumario: Former LDS Church Education System (CES) 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.History of Mexico
Sumario: Critics theorize that Joseph Smith could have used details from Ixtilxochitl's History of Mexico to write the Book of Ether.Joseph Smith, Sr.'s dream
Sumario: Critics point to similarities between a Lucy Mack Smith's account of a dream Joseph Smith's father had and Lehi's dream of the tree of life as evidence that Joseph wrote the El Libro de Mormón based on his own experiences.North American place names
Sumario: It is claimed that Joseph Smith is clearly the author of the El Libro de Mormón because many El Libro de Mormón place names supposedly have clear evidence of "borrowing" from geographic locations in the United States and Canada.The Spalding manuscript
Sumario: It is claimed that Joseph Smith either plagiarized or relied upon a manuscript by Solomon Spaulding to write the El Libro de Mormón. There is a small group of critics who hold to the theory that the production of the El Libro de Mormón was a conspiracy involving Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery and others. These critics search for links between Spalding and Rigdon. Joseph Smith is assumed to have been Rigdon's pawn.View of the Hebrews
Sumario: It is claimed that a 19th century work by Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews, provided source material for Joseph Smith's construction of the El Libro de Mormón. Critics also postulate a link between Ethan Smith and Oliver Cowdery, since both men lived in Poultney, Vermont while Smith served as the pastor of the church that Oliver Cowdery's family attended at the time that View of the Hebrews was being written.The Westminster Confession
Sumario: It is claimed that the content of Alma Chapter 40 derived from a Presbyterian document called The Westminster ConfessionThe Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed
Sumario: It is claimed that Joseph Smith plagiarized Josiah Priest's The Wonders of Nature and Providence Displayed in order to write portions of The El Libro de Mormón. Critics also claim that Joseph Smith plagiarized Shakespeare.The Pilgrims Progress
Sumario: It is claimed that Joseph Smith plagiarized John Bunyan's book "The Pilgrim's Progress"The late war between the United States and Great Britain from June, 1812, to February, 1815
Sumario: It is claimed that Joseph Smith was influenced by Gilbert Hunt's 1819 book "The late war between the United States and Great Britain from June, 1812, to February, 1815," which was written in Biblical style.