Possible Modern Source for the Book of Mormon

[_Spanner]

Thank you, Ms. Harris.

It's be interesting if each passage of the Book of Mormon could be linked to its plagarized counterpart. That would make for a great read!

- Doc

Have you seen Uncle Dale's annotated Book of Mormon?

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Have you seen Uncle Dale's annotated Book of Mormon?

Hrm. I'll have to check it out. Googlin' time now!

- Doc

[_Spanner]

I found it:
The Index -
http://solomonspalding.com/SRP/SRP00.htm

The marked up Book of Mormon:
http://solomonspalding.com/SRP/MEDIA/SRPpap16.htm

Uncle Dale's source criticism pattern matches Tom Donofrio's work and the published word-print study. It would be great to overlay this new work over the existing patterns - to see where the n-grams fit, and where the thematic parallels fit in.

[_AlmaBound]

I ams busy with other things at the moment, but maybe you could direct them to the passages where that is obvious. As well as all the----or, rather----'s

Alma 47:1 And now we will return in our record...

Mosiah 25:5 And it came to pass that Mosiah did read...

Mosiah 8:6 Now, as soon as Ammon had read the record...

[_AlmaBound]

Abraham 1:12 ... I will refer to you the representation at the commencement of this record...

Similar methodology.

[_AlmaBound]

2 Nephi 26:17 ... they shall write the things that shall be done among them...

[_AlmaBound]

2 Nephi 25:1 Now I, Nephi, do speak somewhat concerning the words which I have written, which have been spoken by the mouth of Isaiah...

[_Bazooka]

The assessment, based on the data available at this time, is that the Book of Mormon reflects the culture of those people who wrote it. We don't know yet if the Johnson brothers found works which directly influenced the Book of Mormon, but the similarities, and genre, are definitely indicative of the fact that the Book of Mormon was not all that unusual of a production for 1830 upper New England.

Which might explain why the copyright for it was so hard to sell and why they tried Canada to do so, instead of their immediate surroundings.
It might also explain why Joseph introduced other 'incredible' happenings as time progressed, because the book itself simply wasn't 'incredible' enough.
Joseph is not known for using the Book of Mormon in any of his teachings after its production. If it was merely one of a number of available works, all in the same style, all telling of similar themes, then it makes more sense why Joseph wouldn't refer to it as part of his claim on having restored a 'unique' Church.

[_Nevo]

It is nonsense to suggest that the Book of Mormon was "not all that unusual" for its time. There is nothing else like it. Whatever its source(s), it is an extraordinary work.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

It is nonsense to suggest that the Book of Mormon was "not all that unusual" for its time. There is nothing else like it. Whatever its source(s), it is an extraordinary work.

How so?