Back to the OP, this is a fascinating series by GT. Highly recommend viewing them.hauslern wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:28 pmGospel Tangents has a video of Brian Hales commenting wordprint studies of the Book of Mormon.
It has been a while since that study was published by Jockers Witten and Criddle
http://solomonspalding.com/Lib/Jock2008.htm
Criddle on Facebook said " One key thing is that we were finally able to “fingerprint” Smith. This was difficult because he had many scribes. Once we had that a reliable word print, we redid the Jockers et al study. The results were nearly the same though some chapters were attributed to Smith."
Dan Vogel and Colby Townsend both knock the Spalding theory.
The video is interesting but I find Bennet needs to not smirk so much. Sounds arrogrant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJQ70CKGZSY
So the whole argument seems to be presented by Hales that Smith was not smart enough to create the Book of Mormon. Dan Vogel does not agree.
One thing I’m still not clear about is this: how does anyone estimate and benchmark Joseph Smith’s ability as a verbal storyteller in 1829? What’s the control set?