This updated
running list of evidence for the historicity of the Book of Mormon is
now supplemented with some citations to sources. Further sources and
categories will hopefully be forthcoming.
I
am certain that some of these sources will gain strength with time
while others will wane. The reader can evaluate for herself/himself
whether or not these evidences have any value. It's probably clear what
my opinion is.
There
is one large category of evidence that I have chosen not to include. It
is persuasive in my opinion, but it is a source of division among
members, so I'm leaving it alone. It's evidence for Nephite civilization
in America. I think that there is quite a bit of that evidence, but
there is a dispute about whether or not it is in MesoAmerica or North
America. I have a strong opinion about that, but I'll leave it alone.
1. Three witnesses
a. Martin Harris.
b. Oliver Cowdery.
c. David Whitmer
https://www.amazon.com/Investigating-Mormon-Witnesses-Richard-Anderson/dp/0875792421/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492112545&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=reexamining+book+of+mormon+witnesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBXYjkkcuBs
2. Eight witnesses
a. Hyrum Smith
b. others
(same sources as above)
3. Nahom, Shazer, Bountiful other geography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKOh6COkeA4. Chiasmus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQeePG4-IeA
and
https://www.amazon.com/Chiasmus-Book-Mormon-Textual-Studies-ebook/dp/B008X6DSWK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492114069&sr=1-1&keywords=chiasmus+mormon
5. Hebraisms.
https://www.amazon.com/Chiasmus-Book-Mormon-Textual-Studies-ebook/dp/B008X6DSWK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492114069&sr=1-1&keywords=chiasmus+mormon
6. Internal consistency.
a. Alma's conversion
b. Geographical consistency.
c. Land of Moron and then the name of Moroni appears after Mulekites discovered.
d. In general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IatZtV4cfH4
7. Uto-aztecan connections to Hebrew and Egyptian (Brian Stubb's work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALRqRdo0mfM
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.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_16?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=margaret+barker+temple+theology&sprefix=margaret+barker+%2Caps%2C391&crid=U7TRXBBJM92K
10. Names correlating to Egyptian and Hebrew (Pahoran for example) http://en.fairmormonevidence.org/Category:Pahoran
11. Words correlating to old world plus internal logic (money).
12. Jacob Chapter 5 and olive culture.
13.
Mulek, Son of Zedekiah (Malkiyahu) artifact.
http://publications.mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/12/2/S00008-50be69aad59c87Chadwick.pdf
14. Miraculous experiences of individuals when reading the Book of Mormon.
a. I will only cite to the Ensign which will periodically include
these stories. They are sacred, so I'm not going to give them out in a
casual way for public mockery. But the interested reader will sometimes
find them in the Ensign. https://www.lds.org/ensign?lang=eng
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IatZtV4cfH4 (same as# 6 above).
16. The existence of the gold plates and lesser witnesses.
a. Emma feeling them under cloth.
b. Charles Anthon.
c. Parley Pratt.
17.Literary excellence
a. Poetic structures, parallelisms, metaphors and allegories.
b. complex symbolism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IatZtV4cfH4 (same as in # 6 above)
18. Stylometry (John Hilton's research on Wordprints). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4wm7Owc7RE&t=13s
19. The trend of evidence.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMjNCFcG4-o&list=PL0BC8D118C74ED3DA&index=35
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