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The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source

1987; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/45225539

1554-9631

Blake T. Ostler,

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

The Book of Mormon 7 1 Smith from the KJV 2 Esdras which states that the ten tribes disobeyed the Lord by taking it upon themselves to go "into a further country, where never man dwelt" (1825, 168).Ether 2:5 states that "the Lord commanded [the Jaredites] that they should go forth into the wilderness, yea, into that quarter where there never had man been."Even this similarity does not present identical phraseology and contains significant dissimilarities, for the Jaredites obey God by going into the uninhabited land while the ten tribes disobey God by doing so.Further, any similarity in language could be explained by mutual dependence on 2 Esdras which was included in Joseph Smith's Bible.Joseph Smith , Sr.'s Dream .Another often-cited source of dependence for Lehi's dream is Joseph Smith Sr.'s 1811 dream ( 1 Ne.8 : 2-38; L. Smith 1956, had caused the overthrow of the French monarchy and had infiltrated the American government, corrupting the courts, received great attention in anti-