Category: Forgeries
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The Book of Mormon: Another Bible or Another Bible Forgery? Part 2
Despite the Book of Mormon’s similarities to the Bible, it bears the marks of intentional engineering.
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The Book of Mormon: Another Bible or Another Bible Forgery? Part 1
Forgery techniques shed light on the Book of Mormon and its possible origin.
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The Solomon Spalding Theory
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner A study of Book of Mormon authorship relating toSolomon Spalding The following article is an excerpt from our book, Joseph Smith’s Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon (Chapter 9) The authorship of the Book of Mormon has been hotly debated since it was first published. The title…
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The Mormon Murders: Twenty-Five Years Later
A summary of Mark Hofmann’s forged Mormon documents and the murders that came from them, seen from a perspective years later.
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Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates (tract)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1843 six brass plates were found in a mound in Kinderhook, Illinois. Mormons who saw the plates were impressed by their ancient appearance and felt that they would prove Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon. In a letter written from Nauvoo, Illinois, dated May 2, 1843, Charlotte Haven said that…
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The Kinderhook Plates
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Excerpted from our book, Answering Mormon Scholars, Vol. 2, pp. 118-123 In his attack on our book, Archaeology and the Book of Mormon, Mormon professor William J. Hamblin tried to downplay our work on the Kinderhook plates: The Tanners relish in linking Joseph Smith with this early nineteenth-century forgery . . .…
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Church Hides Documents from Prosecutors
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our last newsletter we revealed that Gordon B. Hinckley and other members of the Mormon hierarchy had important McLellin documents that they deliberately suppressed from prosecutors in the Hofmann murder-forgery case to save the church from embarrassment. We noted that the material was a “key piece of evidence” needed…
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Mormon Leaders Suppress “Key” Item in Murder Case
One of the most amazing facts appearing in a book written about the Hofmann murders is that the LDS church already had some of the original documents that he forged and tried to sell to them.
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Mormon and Anti-Mormon Forgeries
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner An article examining the possibility of forgery in Oliver Cowdery’s “Defence” and the Overstreet Confession Over thirty years have passed since the editors of this newsletter (Jerald and Sandra Tanner) began studying the doctrine and history of the Mormon Church. Not long after starting our research, we began to realize…
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Church Fights Back!
Mormon Leaders Very Upset by Charges of Cover-Up By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Three major books have now been written regarding Mark Hofmann’s cunning plan to deceive Mormon leaders and document experts with forged documents and the murders he subsequently committed to cover up the crimes. The first book to appear, written by Linda Sillitoe…