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Mormon Studies Review

Index Mormon Studies Review

Mormon Studies Review is an annual academic journal covering Mormon studies published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. [1]

83 relations: An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, Anti-Mormonism, Blake Ostler, Blood of the Prophets, Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, Bookcraft, Boyd Petersen, Brant Gardner, Chris Heimerdinger, Critical appraisal of the Book of Abraham, Criticism of the Book of Mormon, Criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, D. Michael Quinn, Daniel C. Peterson, David L. Paulsen, Degrees of glory, Direct revelation, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Endowment (Mormonism), First Vision, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Genetics and the Book of Mormon, God Is Not Great, Golden plates, Grant H. Palmer, Helen Mar Kimball, Historicity of the Book of Mormon, Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Institute for Religious Research, Interpreter (journal), J. Spencer Fluhman, James E. Talmage, John Gee, John L. Sorenson, Joseph Fielding Smith (presiding patriarch), Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Kinderhook plates, Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844, Limited geography model, Linguistics and the Book of Mormon, List of Joseph Smith's wives, List of Latter Day Saint periodicals, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Matthew B. Brown, Michael D. Rhodes, Michael T. Griffith, Monolatry, ..., Mormon studies, Mormonism and Freemasonry, Mormonism and history, Mormonism and polygamy, Mormonism Unvailed, Mosiah priority, Mountain Meadows Massacre, Nahom, Nathan Oman, Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy, Origin of the Book of Mormon, Paul R. Cheesman, Reed C. Durham, Robert H. Briggs, Robert K. Ritner, Royal Skousen, Salamander letter, Scot and Maurine Proctor, Separated brethren, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess, Signature Books, Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship, Stephen E. Robinson, Steven C. Harper, Studies of the Book of Mormon, Terryl Givens, The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible, The House of the Lord, Timeline of LGBT Mormon history, Treasure guardians in folklore, View of the Hebrews, William J. Hamblin, Zelph. Expand index (33 more) »

An Insider's View of Mormon Origins

An Insider's View of Mormon Origins is a 2002 book about the origins of Mormonism by Grant H. Palmer, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who is a retired Church Educational System instructor and Institute director with a master's degree in history.

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Anti-Mormonism

Anti-Mormonism is discrimination, persecution, hostility or prejudice directed against the Latter Day Saint movement, particularly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Blake Ostler

Blake Thomas Ostler (born 1957) is an American philosopher, theologian, and lawyer.

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Blood of the Prophets

Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2002) by Will Bagley is an award-winning history of the Mountain Meadows massacre.

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Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is a work produced in 1835 by Joseph Smith.

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Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

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Bookcraft

Bookcraft was a major publisher of books and products for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Boyd Petersen

Boyd Jay Petersen (born February 23, 1962) is program coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University (UVU) and teaches English and literature at UVU and Brigham Young University (BYU).

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Brant Gardner

Brant Anderson Gardner (born 1951) is an American writer and speaker on the Book of Mormon, and Mesoamerican studies.

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Chris Heimerdinger

Chris Heimerdinger (born August 26, 1963) is an American author who has written twenty novels for adults and young adults, most famously the Tennis Shoes Adventure Series.

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Critical appraisal of the Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is an 1835 work produced by Joseph Smith that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition.

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Criticism of the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

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Criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been the subject of criticism since it was founded by American religious leader Joseph Smith in 1830.

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D. Michael Quinn

Dennis Michael Quinn (born March 26, 1944) is an American historian who has focused on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Daniel C. Peterson

Daniel C. Peterson, born January 15, 1953, is the professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University (BYU).

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David L. Paulsen

David Lamont Paulsen (born 1936) is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Brigham Young University (BYU).

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Degrees of glory

In Mormon theology, there are three degrees of glory (alternatively, kingdoms of glory) which are the ultimate, eternal dwelling place for nearly all who lived on earth after they are resurrected from the spirit world.

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Direct revelation

Direct revelation is a term used by some Christian churches to express their belief in a communication from God to a person, by words, impression, visions, dreams or actual appearance.

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Encyclopedia of Mormonism

The Encyclopedia of Mormonism is a semiofficial encyclopedia for topics relevant to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church, see also "Mormon").

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Endowment (Mormonism)

In Mormonism, the endowment is an ordinance (ceremony) designed to prepare participants to become kings, queens, priests, and priestesses in the afterlife.

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First Vision

The First Vision (also called the grove experience) refers to a vision that Joseph Smith said he received in the spring of 1820, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, which his followers call the Sacred Grove.

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Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) was an informal collaboration of academics devoted to Latter-day Saint historical scholarship.

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Genetics and the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon, the founding document of the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the four books of scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), is an account of three groups of people.

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God Is Not Great

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is a 2007 book by Anglo-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion.

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Golden plates

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source from which Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

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Grant H. Palmer

Grant Hart Palmer (August 17, 1940 – September 25, 2017) was an American educator best known for his controversial work, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, which ostensibly led to his disfellowshipment in 2004 from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Helen Mar Kimball

Helen Mar Kimball (August 22, 1828 – November 13, 1896) was one of several plural wives of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Historicity of the Book of Mormon

The question of the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon has long been a source of contention between most members of the Latter Day Saint movement and non-members.

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Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The law of chastity of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) states that "sexual relations are proper only between a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully wedded as husband and wife." In principle, this commandment forbids all same-sex sexual behavior (whether intra-marriage or extramarital).

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Institute for Religious Research

The Institute for Religious Research is a United States Christian apologetics and counter-cult organization based in Cedar Springs, Michigan.

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Interpreter (journal)

Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is a non-profit peer-reviewed educational academic journal published by the Interpreter Foundation covering primarily LDS apologetics as well as Mormon studies.

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J. Spencer Fluhman

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James E. Talmage

James Edward Talmage (21 September 1862 – 27 July 1933) was an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1911 until his death.

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John Gee

John Laurence Gee (born 1964) is a Mormon apologist, and Egyptologist at Brigham Young University (BYU), known for his writings in support of the Book of Abraham.

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John L. Sorenson

John L. Sorenson (born April 8, 1924) is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University (BYU) and the author of An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon as well as many other books and articles on the Book of Mormon and archaeology.

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Joseph Fielding Smith (presiding patriarch)

Joseph Fielding Smith (January 30, 1899 – August 29, 1964) was Presiding Patriarch and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1942 until 1946.

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Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible

The Joseph Smith Translation (JST; also called the Inspired Version (IV)) is a revision of the Bible by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet

Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet is a biography of the formative years of the founder of Mormonism written by Dan Vogel.

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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of Book of Mormon Studies is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering topics surrounding the Book of Mormon.

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Kinderhook plates

The Kinderhook plates were a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with strange engravings which were claimed to have been discovered in 1843 in an Indian mound near Kinderhook, Illinois.

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Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844

The life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844, when he was 34–38 years old, covers the period of Smith's life when he lived in Nauvoo, an eventful and highly controversial period of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Limited geography model

A limited geography model for the Book of Mormon is one of several theories by Latter Day Saint movement scholars that the book's narrative was a historical record of people in a limited geographical region, rather than of the entire Western Hemisphere as believed by some early Latter Day Saints.

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Linguistics and the Book of Mormon

According to most adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Book of Mormon is a 19th-century translation of a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent, which was written in a script which the book refers to as "reformed Egyptian".

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List of Joseph Smith's wives

Joseph Smith (1805–1844), the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, secretly taught and practiced polygamy during his ministry, and married multiple women during his lifetime.

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List of Latter Day Saint periodicals

This article lists periodicals published primarily about institutions, people, or issues of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Mark Ashurst-McGee

Mark Roscoe Ashurst-McGee (born 1968) is an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and editor for the Joseph Smith Papers project.

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Matthew B. Brown

Matthew B. Brown (1964 – October 5, 2011) was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) author and historian whose emphasis was on the history and doctrine of Joseph Smith and his successors through Brigham Young.

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Michael D. Rhodes

Michael Dennis Rhodes (born 1946) is an associate professor of ancient scripture emeritus, formerly at Brigham Young University (BYU).

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Michael T. Griffith

Michael T. Griffith (born 1957) is a Mormon apologist who has written several books defending The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

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Monolatry

Monolatry (Greek: μόνος (monos).

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Mormon studies

Mormon studies is the interdisciplinary academic study of the beliefs, practices, history and culture of those known by the term Mormon and denominations belonging to the Latter Day Saint movement whose members do not generally go by the term "Mormon".

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Mormonism and Freemasonry

The relationship between Mormonism and Freemasonry began early in the life Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, as his older brother Hyrum and possibly his father were Freemasons while the family lived near Palmyra, New York.

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Mormonism and history

The Mormon religion is predicated on what are said to be historical events such as the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the historicity of the Book of Mormon, which describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of the Americas.

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Mormonism and polygamy

Polygamy (most often polygyny, called plural marriage by Mormons in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890 by between 20 and 30 percent of Latter-day Saint families.

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Mormonism Unvailed

Mormonism Unvailed is a book published in 1834 by Eber D. Howe.

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Mosiah priority

Mosiah priority is a theory about the creation of the Book of Mormon arguing that the original manuscript began not with 1 Nephi (found at the beginning of the Book of Mormon), but midway through, starting with Mosiah.

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Mountain Meadows Massacre

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah.

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Nahom

Nahom is a place referenced in the Book of Mormon as one of the stops on the Old World segment of Lehi's journey.

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Nathan Oman

Nathan Bryan "Nate" Oman (born 1975) is the Rollins Professor of Law at the law school of the College of William and Mary.

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Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy

Polygamy, or plural marriage, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints probably originated with the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, who taught that polygamy was a divine commandment.

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Origin of the Book of Mormon

There are several theories as to the origin of the Book of Mormon.

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Paul R. Cheesman

Paul Robert Cheesman (May 31, 1921 – November 13, 1991) was an American archeologist and a professor of religion at Brigham Young University (BYU).

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Reed C. Durham

Reed Connell Durham, Jr. (born 1930) is a historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and former director of the Institute of Religion in Salt Lake City, Utah for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Robert H. Briggs

Robert H. Briggs is a Fullerton, California, lawyer and independent historian.

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Robert K. Ritner

Robert Kriech Ritner is an American Egyptologist currently at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

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Royal Skousen

Royal Jon Skousen (born August 5, 1945) is a professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he is editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.

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Salamander letter

The salamander letter is a document about the history of the Latter-day Saint movement that was created by the forger Mark Hofmann in the early 1980s.

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Scot and Maurine Proctor

Scot and Maurine Proctor are the founders of the Latter-day Saint oriented website Meridian Magazine.

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Separated brethren

Separated brethren is a term sometimes used by the Roman Catholic Church and its clergy and members to refer to baptized members of other Christian traditions.

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Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess

Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess is a 1994 biography of the early Latter Day Saint leader Sidney Rigdon written by Richard S. Van Wagoner.

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Signature Books

Signature Books is a press specializing in subjects related to Utah, Mormonism, and Western Americana.

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Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship

The Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship is the theory that the Book of Mormon was plagiarized in part from an unpublished manuscript written by Solomon Spalding.

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Stephen E. Robinson

Stephen Edward Robinson (May 23 1947-June 17 2018) was a religious scholar and apologist, who was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Steven C. Harper

Steven Craig Harper (born 1970) is a historian for the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a former professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University.

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Studies of the Book of Mormon

Studies of the Book of Mormon is a collection of essays written at the beginning of the 20th century (though not published until 1985) by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which examine the validity of the Book of Mormon as a translation of an ancient American source.

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Terryl Givens

Terryl Lynn Givens is a professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond, where he holds the James A. Bostwick Chair in English.

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The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible

The Book of Mormon contains many linguistic similarities to the King James Bible (KJV).

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The House of the Lord

The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries, Ancient and Modern is a 1912 book by James E. Talmage that discusses the doctrine and purpose of the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Timeline of LGBT Mormon history

This is a timeline of LGBT Mormon history consisting of events, publications, and speeches at the intersection of LGBTQ+ individuals, topics around sexual orientation and gender minorities, and the community of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church).

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Treasure guardians in folklore

The treasure guardian is a recurring motif in folklore of a being that guards a treasure.

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View of the Hebrews

View of the Hebrews is an 1823 book written by Ethan Smith, a United States Congregationalist minister, who argued that Native Americans were descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

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William J. Hamblin

William James Hamblin (born 1954) is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU).

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Zelph

Zelph is a figure of interest in Mormon studies.

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FARMS Review, FARMS Review of Books, Mormon Stud Rev, Mormon Stud. Rev., Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, The FARMS Review.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Studies_Review

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