Book of Mormon Studies

NOTE: This webpage (and all the webpages linked below) are taken entirely from the mormonstudies.com website before the web content of that site changed in May, 2009. The former mormonstudies.com website was made by the late Ted Chandler. Many Mormon researchers appreciate the work Ted did and we didn't want to see his work disappear from the web. We hope Mr. Chandler doesn't mind, but his work is used, admired and referenced by too many people to simply disappear. Also, several mirror archive sites exist for mormonstudies but most have either since removed the content or have information at least five years out of date. So we at MormonThink decided that if it was going to be published on the Internet anyway by archive websites, that we might as well publish the most accurate version as we did our backup a month before the original mormonstudies was removed. We haven't changed any of the content but did format some things for easier readability.

BOOK OF MORMON STUDIES
	This site is devoted to detailed explorations of the Book of Mormon and related topics.

 

Main Menu

• Book of Mormon Parallels
  Parallels with the Bible, Roman history, and other sources
• Book of Mormon Geography
  Interpretations and a new solution, including Maps
• The Revised Book of Mormon
  Internal evidence that the original manuscript was altered
  
• Seer and Translator
  Joseph Smith's other writings,
  including the Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar
• Doctrinal Parallels
  Theology, cosmology, high priesthood, and temple rites
• Book of Mormon Authorship
  Weighing the evidence, including parallels with the Spalding manuscript
• Indian Origins
  Theories and speculation
• Recent Defenses of the Book of Mormon
  A look at FARMS research
• Evidence from the Book of Mormon Manuscript
  Dictated or copied? What the evidence shows.
• Finding the Bible in the Book of Mormon
  Biblical phrases abound in the Book of Mormon
• Joseph Smith's Visions
  A comparison of accounts by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

Bibliographies can be found at the end of each document.

Spalding Studies

• The Manuscript Story
  Full text of Solomon Spalding's manuscript
• Statements of Witnesses
  As originally published by E. D. Howe
• Matilda Spalding Revisited
  Is she a credible witness?
• Another Spalding Fragment
  Proof that Sidney Rigdon possessed a Spalding manuscript
• Solomon Spalding and Revisionist History
  The removal of Spalding from Mormon history
• Spalding Authorship Page
  Author: Dale Broadhurst
  Spalding/Book of Mormon textual parallels,
  plus an important study of unique word parallels
• Sidney Rigdon: Creating the Book of Mormon
  Author: Craig Criddle
  Evidence of Rigdon's involvement with the Book of Mormon manuscript
• Early American Influences on the Book of Mormon
  Author: Thomas Donofrio
  Historical and religious sources
• Quakers and Ammonites
  More Warren parallels
• Alma 42 and the Atonement
  Anselm's interpretation of the atonement in the Book of Mormon
• Spalding Notes
  Vocabulary similarities between the Spalding MS and the Egyptian Alphabet & Grammar
  Name construction in the Spalding MS compared to the Book of Mormon
• Book Reviews
  The Spalding Enigma
  Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
  They Lie in Wait to Deceive (Off-site review by Dale Broadhurst)

Useful Sites

• The Spalding Studies Library
  A compilation of historical statements in the Spalding debate
• Mormon Classics
  A directory of texts and newspaper articles available on the Internet
• Book of Mormon Research Page
  Full text of View of the Hebrews, 1830 Book of Mormon, and Book of Commandments
• Search the Book of Mormon
  This site supports simple and proximity searches for words and phrases

Ted Chandler