Original Books and Manuscripts OnLine or at Amazon

Post by **_Inconceivable** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:53 pm

After wading through the first 4 of 20 pages of the Rigdon et al post, I decided that with that much ahead of me I might
as well just read the books referred to.

I have seen these books at Amazon. Are they published from the originals? Can I even read them somewhere on line?

Post by **_Inconceivable** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:54 pm

Original 1830 Edition of the Book of Mormon

http://www.inephi.com/Search.htm

Journal of Discourses

http://www.journalofdiscourses.org/

View of the Hebrews

http://olivercowdery.com/texts/ethn1823.htm#pg169a

I seem to be answering some of my own questions here, so I will cordially thank myself.

Post by **_CaliforniaKid** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:37 am

lol.

Take note that there are two editions of View of the Hebrews. You linked to the 1823 ed.; here's the improved and enlarged 1825 ed.: http://www.antimormon.8m.com/esmithpreface.html

You might also be interested in this online archive of Mormon historical documents, and particularly "A Parallel" by B. H. Roberts (listed under "P"): http://zarahemlacitylimits.com/wiki/ind ... ment_Index

As far as the 1830 Book of Mormon, more relevant to the Solomon Spalding discussion in this forum are

The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text by Royal Skousen
The Printers Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts by Royal Skousen
Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon (Critical Text of the Book of Mormon) by Royal Skousen

All of these can be purchased from online vendors for outrageous prices.

You might also want to pick up

Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?: The Spalding Enigma by Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. Davis, and Arthur Vanick

-CK

Post by **_Inconceivable** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:05 pm

So far as the Book of Mormon, What are the main differences between the original manuscript and the first printing

- besides speculation on who was the scribe?

Post by **_CaliforniaKid** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:40 pm

There are scribal errors, and a good deal of breath has been expended on the Spalding-Rigdon thread to determine whether they're copying errors or dictation errors. This helps us determine whether the original Book of Mormon manuscript might have been copied from a MS by Solomon Spalding. In my opinion, Dan Vogel has argued very definitively in favor of the dictation thesis.