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“Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin”

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B. H. Roberts
B. H. Roberts

B. H. Roberts, a historian, was born on March 13, 1857, and died on September 27, 1933. He made significant contributions to the study of American Western history, the history of Utah, and Mormon history. more

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