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Another snippet from my novel 116 , just for fun . . . “Press tells me you boys are going to help him find the 116 pages. I can’t wait to read them!” No question of if, or how one pursues such a quest, or what it could cost. No stupid remarks like “Why would you want such a thing?” or “What do you t...

Kairos,

Regarding Buck's Theological Dictionary which you mentioned, here is my somewhat brief entry which may serve as an introduction to that work:

http://www.rickgrunder.com/parallels/mp77.pdf

"Mormon periodicals in the 1830s," according to Philip L. Barlow, "cited the Bible nineteen times as often as the Book of Mormon, . . . ," even though in 1832 (on the anniversary of the Moroni visits), "The Lord chided Church members for not valuing the Book of Mormon sufficiently." (Barlow, 44, cit...

The phone rang. “Hello?” “Solomon? This is Preston. Did you get my fax?” “Bright and clear. I just finished reading it. I take it that the manuscript which is discussed there is the thing you’re looking for?” “Its . . . loss has been regretted for a very long time.” Young spoke tentatively. “The you...

The wildly popular Ossian forgeries of James Macpherson in the 1700s fooled everyone from Goethe to Thoreau, and exerted literary influence in Europe and America. Among names concocted or adapted for this faux-Celtic lore were these Mormon-sonorous examples: Carmora Maronna Morven Nemi Standard of M...

Hi, Dr. Moore - and many thanks for these valuable Clarke references to Antinomians. One of the largest tomes in my entire book-burdened house is an 1816 single-volume edition of Clarke’s “grand folio Bible” with commentary. I’ve delayed analyzing it until I can study the Wayment article and see wha...

The grand but narrow pulpits of some of the richer Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches of Joseph Smith’s day made nice rameumtums indeed. Perhaps even more transparent was the place where the Zoramites lived, in the land of Antionum . What better place for Antinomians to live, after all! Her...

The Sic et Non article: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2020/05/joseph-smith-performing-a-miraculous-healing-according-to-a-non-lds-source.html ) The web page cited in the Sic et Non article: http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com/2020/04/joseph-performing-miraculous-healing.html Ironical...

Redemption! - sort of . . . So glad to have access to the site again. During the Double-C-Exile (Covid; temporary-board Christmas theme), I finished and uploaded “More Mormon than the Mormons: A World for Joseph Smith” on my website, available for PDF download here: http://www.rickgrunder.com/moremo...

Great catch, Kamenraider! . . . may there not be red Jews in America? Let the heart . . . survey the trace Of similarity . . . note the facts, Compare the language, weigh the evidence, And answer for itself. . . . . . . . . Some with mystic rites, The ark, the orison, the paschal feast, Through glim...