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At some point, though, this growing massive library of what Joseph Smith "could have used" runs into Occam's Razor, doesn't it? When I was a member of FAIR, we had an inside joke: "Joseph Smith: The Cambridge Years." Clarke's six-volume work is now added to this hypothetical library, next to "The L...

Jackson's article comes off as not much more than a desire to fulfill the need put out by Oaks that someone needs to say something when critiques come out. It doesn't matter too much what it is, but you have to respond. I was curious because I knew when Wayment and Lemmon first notified everyone of ...

Dismissing the people who are actually offering critiques as lightweights hoping to engage only with heavyweights amounts to hoping to play a major league baseball game without being in the league. Rejecting a game with teams that will willingly play you in hopes you might someday get offered a chal...

Is the fact that Jackson is not credentialed a reason to dismiss him? But Jackson is credentialed, as I explained to Yahoo Bot on the other board. Not sure why he keeps claiming that Jackson "doesn't have the academic credentials" to review Wayment's articles. https://www.proquest.com/docview/30300...

So the apologists are attacking Wayment’s scholarship in order to take away any potential for a slam dunk? This is an odd strategy indeed. If parallels don’t work then I’m afraid the entirety of the Interpreter’s corpus is null and void. I will have to go see how it is that Wayment’s 100s of instan...

My sense is that Clarke's fingerprints are all over the JST and Joseph Smith's fingerprints are all over Clarke's work. Can Jackson concede that the Clarke's commentary was not a source of Joseph Smith work on the JST- i think he will answer that uh uh Clarke's work was used in some fashion when Jo...

I wonder how his testing went to come to this conclusion. Did he sample enough people to make his conclusion statistically valid? I wonder if he'll ever produce the results of his findings. "what's this guy's name? Timmy, huh...hmm...that's sweet. He must have had a mommy and daddy? ah I see, and th...

If Conference didn't do it for you, you might want to try https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/some-notes-on-joseph-smith-and-adam-clarke/#sdfootnote60anc Yeah...right! No way in hell did Joseph Smith consult Adam Clarke. That's all lies and foolish nonsense. I may kid, but I admit, Jackson's l...

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Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:19 am

I would be interested in some examples of the “volumes on contested issues...done in academia” that Muhlestein is referring to here.

Yes^^^

Why on earth would Ritner have ever wanted to publish anything with the Flat Earth Brigade? He has nothing to gain from it. He wrote what he wrote, and it will always be exponentially more valuable than anything Gee or Muhlestein will ever write about the Jospeh Smith Papyri. Ritner is at the top o...