Category: Kinderhook Plates
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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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Kinderhook Plates (newsletter update)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner While we give a detailed report concerning Joseph Smith’s “translation” of the Kinderhook plates in our book Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? new and important information has recently come to light. The Mormon publication Times and Seasons for May 1, 1843, reported that these plates were found in a mound in Kinderhook,…
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From a Tea-Chest? (Kinderhook Plates)
The Kinderhook Plates, partially translated by Joseph Smith as containing a history linked to a descendant of Ham, were later revealed through scientific analysis and historical research to be a fraud.
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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…