Golden Plates, The
Brass Plates, The

Textual Criticism

Archaeology Issues and Evidence

Other Issues

Web Links

THE BOOK OF MORMON ISSUES PAGE

Chap. 2 of An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon by J. M. Sjodahl (Weight, size, and composition).  See also SHIELDS response to this issue in Question 31 of the 42 Questions.

"Were the Golden Plates Made of Tumbaga?" by Read H. Putnam  (from The Improvement Era)

Gold Plates used Anciently pamphlet published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

General

Answers to Book of Mormon Questions, by Dr. Sidney B. Sperry (in Adobe .pdf format)

"Higher Criticism and the Book of Mormon" by B. H. Roberts (from The Improvement Era)

"Book of Mormon Grammar" by President George A. Smith from a discourse delivered on the 15th of November, 1868.

Birth of Jesus

"`Trouble in the West' (Was Jesus born in Jerusalem or Bethlehem?)"  Response by Oliver Cowdery, Latter-day Saints Messenger and Advocate (1835)

"Alma 7:10 - Was Jesus born in Jerusalem or Bethlehem?"  A Response by Daniel C. Peterson, Matthew Roper, and William J. Hamblin, FARMS Criticism Papers

"Was Jesus Born in the `Land of Jerusalem?'" from Answers to Book of Mormon Questions by Dr. Sidney B. Sperry

Miscellaneous

"Does the Book of Mormon Quote Shakespeare?" from Answers to Book of Mormon Questions by Dr. Sidney B. Sperry

"The `Isaiah Problem' in the Book of Mormon" from Answers to Book of Mormon Questions by Dr. Sidney B. Sperry

"Alma 40:11-12 - Do these verses contradict Luke 23:43?" by George Q. Cannon (from The Juvenile Instructor)

"The Problem of the Horse" from Answers to Book of Mormon Questions by Dr. Sidney B. Sperry (To download in Adobe .pdf format, click here)

Jaredite Survivors

"Language of my father" Nephi Testifies.

"Shiz, the Headless," by Elder George Reynolds

"The Prophet Said Silk"  by Maurice W. Connell (from The Improvement Era)

"Steel in the Book of Mormon" 

"The Wheel in Ancient America" from BYU Studies, by Paul R. Cheesman

Guatamalan Petroglyphs, The, The Nephite Story or From Whence Came The Aztecs by James W. LeSueur (.jpg cover, .pdf cover, .pdf format)  Electronic version copyrighted © 2002 by SHIELDS.

A Note on the Slaying of Laban by John A. Tvedtnes (FARMS)

Anthon/Mitchell Episode

• "Some Problems Arising from Martin Harris' Visit to Professor Charles Anthon" from Answers to Book of Mormon Questions by Dr. Sidney B. Sperry (To download in Adobe .pdf format, click here)
• "The Anthon Transcript: People, Primary Sources, and Problems" by Dr. Stanley B. Kimball, from BYU Studies
• "The Anthon Transcript," a series of articles appearing in The Improvement Era, Jan - Mar 1942, by Ariel L. Crowley, LL.B.
• Answer to Question 20 of the 42 Questions, by Malin Jacobs.  Response to the issue of Anthon's statements in contradiction to Martin Harris
• "I Cannot Read a Sealed Book" from The Improvement Era 60:2
• Current Location of the true Anthon Transcript

Nephi or Moroni?

Did B.H. Roberts loose his testimony of the Book of Mormon?

Rodney Meldrum, the FIRM Foundation, and Book of Mormon Evidences

WEB LINKS

Issues

    DNA and the Book of Mormon

• DNA and the Book of Mormon.  Church response.
• "Before DNA," by John L. Sorenson and Matt Roper (FARMS) (.html, .pdf)
• DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective, by Michael F. Whiting (FARMS) (.html, .pdf)
• A Few Thoughts From a Believing DNA Scientist, by John M. Butler (FARMS) (.html, .pdf)
• Who Are the Children of Lehi?, by D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Trent D. Stephens (FARMS) (.html, .pdf)
• "Does DNA Evidence Refute the Book of Mormon?" Jeffrey D. Lindsay, Ph.D. (.html, .pdf)
• Motivation, Behavior, and Dissension, by Allen Wyatt.  This article discusses Dr. Thomas Murphy who has been very outspoken concerning DNA and the Book of Mormon. (FAIR)
• The Tempest in a Teapot DNA Studies and the Book of Mormon by Brant Gardner (FAIR)
• A Brief Review of Murphy and Southerton's "Galileo Event" by Kevin L. Barney (FAIR)
• Nugget #13, What Nephite DNA?  by Jeff Lindsay (and Woody Brison)
• Genetic Markers Not a Valid Test of Native Identity by Brett Lee Shelton, J.D. and Jonathan Marks, Ph.D.
• DNA Mutation Rates & Evolution, by Sean D. Pitman M.D.
• Addressing Questions surrounding the Book of Mormon and DNA Research
  by John M. Butler
• DNA and the Book of Mormon by David G. Stewart Jr.

   Silk

• "The Prophet Said Silk" by Maurice W. Connell (from The Improvement Era, Vol. 65, Number 5 (May 1962), pp. 324-345

• "Silkworm of the Aztecs," by Richard S. Peigler, Ph.D., Curator of Entomology at the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science).  The article was published in Museum Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1993): 10-11.  Museum Quarterly is published by the Denver Museum of Natural History.  This article describes the successful expedition to Mexico by Dr. Peigler and companions to find the animal whose cocoon provided the Aztecs with a material so similar to true silk, that it was described as silk by the Spaniards who first explored Mexico and Central America.

  NOTE:  The Museum refused us permission to place this article on the SHIELDS web site, apparently because the article would have supported the Book of Mormon's reference to silk in the pre-Columbian New World.  The museum did not wish to be in the position of appearing to support a religious position.

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