![]() ![]() ![]() Barrett recounts it, the first 116 pages of English transcript, taken down by the scribe Martin Harris at Smith’s dictation, were lost irretrievably after Harris took them home to show to his skeptical wife. The following incident alone should be sufficient to persuade all but the most credulous that there was something fishy about the whole business.Īs Mormon historian Ivan J. One would think, for instance, that if part of the miraculous translation from the golden plates was lost in the initial stage, it should not have been too difficult for a genuine “seer” to translate the missing portion again as long as he still had the plates and the miraculous translation stones (the “Urim and Thummin”) in his possession. The origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ “Bible”-the Book of Mormon-are open to devastating criticism. Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part article. ![]()
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