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You need to work on a pool of likely candidates. The use of a shotgun approach is very questionable. Clavigero and I Maccabees re highest in the list for me.

Are there adequate writing samples of Hyrum Smith and Joseph Smith senior for Jockers to look at?

Here are some basics in research design.
http://www.upei.ca/~xliu/ed611/day10.htm

However, there is one area of higher criticism that the current LDS intelligentsia are running towards in droves, postmodern readings of scripture. Hey, if they want to radically revise their understanding of their "scripture" so that it does not justify sin, and so that they can remain L...

Yeah, right now I am working on II Maccabees 14:37-46 as an origin for Shiz: A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a patriot. A man highly regarded, he was called a father of the Jews because of his love for them. In the early days of the revolt, he had been co...

ROFLMAO!!!!

Well, at least Spalding realized that the plot was just a little too fantastic to believe. He had to ground it in some kind of reality, if he wanted to write anything.

Oh-- I got them, in spades. LOL.

Dale, I've been trying to figure this out: Also in MS there are a few concepts in common with the Book of Mormon. For example the Romans discuss the merits of integration vs apartheid: "Surrounded by innumerable hoards of human beings, who resemble in manners the Ourang Outang, let us keep aloo...

Here is what I have found so far: (Chapter 2, I Maccabees) 5 Then they were joined by a group of Hasideans, valiant Israelites, all of them devout followers of the law. 43 And all those who were fleeing from the disaster joined them and supported them. 44 They gathered an army and struck down sinner...

Yeah, that is why I am writng this book. sigh

I note another woman has died in Utah, with her husband suspected.

e-mail coming.

I intentionally do not cover all parallels, just to give readers the opportunity to do their own thinking.

Yep, I just found it. blush.

I think old Sol was reading the wrong parts of the Bible -- where groups of girls get kidnapped (by Benjamites) Maybe he had fantasies of kidnapping a "Lamanite" dancer himself, but was too afraid that she'd fight back and put his severed head on a platter, (tight like a dish). ??? UD Whe...