I've decided to create a running list of proposed Book of Mormon evidence and arguments. The list will not evaluate the strength of each piece of evidence. Maybe some are strong and others are weak. Yet others kind of moderate. But I would like a handy reference to all of them, so I'll be updating it periodically and with the help of my readers if I get any. :)
This list will not include refutations of counter arguments. Perhaps that will get a separate list. As will other evidence, say, for Book of Abraham or similarities with ancient Christianity.
Please give me more ideas! This is a very incomplete list and I'll be adding to it periodically.
1. Three witnesses
a. Martin Harris.
b. Oliver Cowdery.
c. David Whitmer
2. Eight witnesses
a. Hyrum Smith
b. others
3. Nahom, Shazer, Bountiful other geography.
4. Chiasmus.
5. Hebraisms.
6. Internal consistency.
a. Alma's conversion
b. Geographical consistency.
c. Land of Moron and then the name of Moroni appears after Mulekites discovered.
7. Uto-aztecan (Brian Stubb's work).
8. Hebrew patterns (like covenant renewal in King Benjamin's speech).
9. Margaret Barker's scholarship on expulsion of messianic cult around 600 BC.
a. Mary, Asherah and the Tree.
b. other Barker scholarship.
10. Names correlating to Egyptian and Hebrew (Pahoran for example)
11. Words correlating to old world plus internal logic (money).
12. Jacob Chapter 5 and olive culture.
13. Mulek, Son of Zedekiah (Malkiyahu) artifact.
14. Miraculous experiences of individuals when reading the Book of Mormon.
a.
15. Joseph Smith's characteristics and testimony of those around him
a. Emma says he was almost illiterate
b. had no manuscript,
c. start up where he left off
d. translation speed.
16. The existence of the gold plates and lesser witnesses.
a. Emma feeling them under cloth.
b. Charles Anthon.
c. Parley Pratt.
d.
17.Literary excellence
a. Poetic structures, parallelisms, metaphors and allegories.
b. complex symbolism.
18. Stylometry (John Hilton's research on Wordprints).
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