Something new to consider:

http://mormonleaks.com/library/episode-03/

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There are some Mormon origins "experts" who tell
us that Elder Sidney Rigdon was nothing more than
a genuine Christian minister to was converted to
Mormonism on 1830 and subsequently acted as
Joseph Smith's scribe on a few occasions.

According to this viewpoint, that's the end of
the story. Later in life Rigdon was expelled from
the Mormon Church and passed away in obscurity.
There's nothing more to report -- finis --

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If the above viewpoint is the TRUE one, then we
must assume that all of the old testimony that
reportedly links Sidney Rigdon to the production
of the "Gold Bible" is falsehood -- just one more
example of anti-Mormon persecution of good, honest
and righteous Christians like the Rev. Rigdon.


However....

Craig Criddle presents a revisionist history of
this supposedly "innocent dupe" of Joe Smith's.

And -- I for one believe -- it's worth reading:

http://mormonleaks.com/library/episode-03/

Uncle Dale

Wow, very informative

This is good stuff...nice summary of material found in Who REALLY wrote the BOM.

Turkey Vulture Wrote:
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> This is good stuff...nice summary of material
> found in Who REALLY wrote the BOM.


One of the things I see Criddle doing, is taking
many of the conclusions expressed in that 2000 book
by Art Vanick and others, and shoring up those earlier
Book of Mormon authorship conclusions with a logical,
step-by-step argument favoring a complex text that
was created by more than one 19th century author.

Now, there may still be folks like Matt Roper, who
view all of this sort of exposition as a waste of
time. But perhaps future responses to the writings
of researchers like Art and Craig will move from
the realm of Maxwell Institute apologists, into the
pages of publications like Dialogue and Sunstone --
or the Journal of Mormon History, or the John Whitmer
Journal; where the subject matter can be discussed
by a wider range of people interested in LDS origins.

We shall see.

UD

...something more than just streamlining the history of early Mormonism. Perhaps they want to keep that cupboard closed.

My vocabulary has been enhanced:

epanodos:

http://www.drbilllong.com/Words/Similar.html

<quote>
...
It is a rhetorical term connoting two things: either a return to the main portion of an address following a digression or an 'inversion,' in which several terms are discussed in the reverse order in which they are introduced. A biblical example of the latter is from Genesis 10, where the three sons of Noah are introduced as Shem, Ham and Japeth, and then the sons of Japeth, Ham and Shem are introduced as the chapter progresses. If you keep the root words of epanodos clearly in mind, you can't go wrong. "Epi" is "upon," "ana" is "again," and "odos" is "road." I always hear Willie Nelson singing "On the Road Again," whenever I think of the word epanodos. Maybe that--returning from a digression--should be its leading meaning today, in honor of Willie.
<endquote>


epanodos: chiasmus before it was chiasmus ...



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