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Question: would more information on brass plates work better here or on Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates?BenBeckstromBYU (talk) 22:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It needs to be stated outright that the plates — atleast in the manner described by Joseph Smith — never existed in reality. TrangaBellam (talk) 18:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
All articles/books/pamphlets/plates/cups/... described in this section ought not be directly used as RS-es:
In other words, >75% of the sources need to be nuked. Absent opposition, I will go ahead — there is ample material on the subject that is written by decent academic historians and published by decent academic press. TrangaBellam (talk) 19:49, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I will confess I became something more than a neutral observer at one point in the book. When I came to write about the Book of Mormon, I turned into an apologist. I could not resist countering the arguments of critics about the nineteenth century sources of the Book of Mormon. I thought most of the presumed explanations were unconvincing and said so, rebutting many of the chief critical arguments point by point. That put the Book of Mormon outside of history, making it a bit of a mystery. I did not explicitly say the book had to be inspired, but the implication was certainly there. The apologists loved that chapter ...
Making Joseph Smith an impostor may accord with our modern view of what is possible and impossible—no gold plates or angels, please—but it does not explain why he succeeded. Why did people then and now believe him? To understand their belief you have to get inside his world, in my opinion, and think of him as his followers did.
— Bushman (2007)
TrangaBellam (talk) 19:49, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]