Friday, April 14, 2017

Updated Running List of Book of Mormon Evidence.

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=ukKOh6COkeA
4. 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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