Category: Book of Mormon Archaeology
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Ferguson’s Two Faces
Mormon Scholar’s “Spoof” Lives On After His Death By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The word “spoof ” was apparently coined by a British comedian by the name of Roberts around the middle of the 19th century. It is defined as a “hoax, joke, or deception.” The following is the story of a man who felt…
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Mormon Archaeology
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In an article published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Summer 1969, Dee Green, who had been deeply involved in archaeological work at the Church’s Brigham Young University declared: The first myth we need to eliminate is that Book of Mormon archaeology exists. . . . no Book of Mormon location…
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 5
The Book of Mormon As we have already shown, Joseph Smith claimed that on the night of September 21, 1823, when he was seventeen years old, an angel appeared to him and stated that gold plates were buried in the Hill Cumorah. The angel explained that the plates contained “an account of the former inhabitants…
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Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1969 we published our book Archaeology and the Book of Mormon. On January 10, 1970, we received a letter from the Mormon Egyptologist, Dee Jay Nelson in which the following statements appeared: The booklets, The Mormon Kingdom and Archaeology and the Book of Mormon arrived in the mail today.…
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Mormon Scriptures and the Bible
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Milton R. Hunter, of the First Council of the Seventy in the Mormon Church, recently was quoted as saying the following: The Prophet Joseph Smith produced for the world three new volumes of holy scriptures, namely the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price,…
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Moonmen and Nephites
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner By revelation from God, Joseph Smith professed knowledge about people apparently inhabiting the moon. Just as there has been no good evidence ever supporting such a claim, archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon peoples has remained practically non-existent despite many dubious claims. At the time Joseph Smith established the…