Who Wrote The Book Of Mormon 1830. We also compared the writing in the book of mormon with that of joseph smith and his contemporaries, who wrote in the time period when the book of mormon was published. Ever since the book of mormon was first published in 1830, its origins have been disputed.
After comparing the first edition of the book of mormon with the 1964 edition we marked the changes on the photocopies of the 1830 edition. Pratt and his missionary companions in november 1830, and that rigdon did not meet joseph smith until december of that same year. On the evening of september 21, 1823, the angel moroni appeared to young joseph smith and told him of the golden plates that would be translated as the book of mormon.
He gravitated to alexander campbell's disciples of christ, and was a campbellite preacher until he converted to mormonism in 1830.
This book attempted to revive the moribund spalding manuscript theory for the book of mormon.cowdery et al. We've all heard the story of solomon spaulding, that he wrote several romances, and that at least one of them was written in the ancient style, according to witnesses. The original text betrays its new england origin in many ways, from inconsistent spelling to incorrect use of tenses and number, as well as incorrect usage of jacobean. Joseph smith translated the book of mormon in 1823, moroni appeared to joseph smith as an angel and told him where the plates were buried.