Deseret News author rejects Fawn Brodie's argument that the Book of Mormon is dependent on View of the Hebrews.

Date
May 11, 1946
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Deseret News
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

"Appraisal of the So-Called Brodie Book," Deseret News, Church News section (May 11, 1946): 8

Scribe/Publisher
Deseret News
People
Ethan Smith, Fawn Brodie, Joseph Smith, Jr., Deseret News
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Saying that it may never be proved that Joseph Smith ever saw "View of the Hebrews" before writing the Book of Mormon, on the next page she declares it "only a basic source book for the Book of Mormon," and for pages proceeds on the assumption that he got it from the legend of a buried Indian book. With admirable complacency she assumes that Joseph was acquainted with another book because years later he possessed a wholly different book by the same author. And so the assumptions multiply on and on to fill the gaps left by an absence of facts.

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