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Attempts to explain Book of Mormon authorship by non-miraculous means
Secular authorship theories for the Book of Mormon
An overview of secular authorship theories for the Book of Mormon
Summary: An overview of the various authorship theories that critics have created to explain the existence of the Book of Mormon.Spalding manuscript
Summary: Some claim that Joseph Smith either plagiarized or relied upon a manuscript by Solomon Spaulding to write the Book of Mormon. There is a small group of critics who hold to the theory that the production of the Book of Mormon was a conspiracy involving Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery and others. These critics search for links between Spalding and Rigdon. Joseph Smith is assumed to have been Rigdon's pawn.View of the Hebrews
Summary: Some claim that a 19th century work by Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews, provided source material for Joseph Smith's construction of the Book of Mormon. Critics also postulate a link between Ethan Smith and Oliver Cowdery, since both men lived in Poultney, Vermont while Smith served as the pastor of the church that Oliver Cowdery's family attended at the time that View of the Hebrews was being written.Epilepsy
Summary: Some have claimed that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon while under the influence of an "epileptic fit," thus perpetuating a fraud without knowing it.Automatic writing
Summary: Some attempt to explain the complexity of the Book of Mormon through appeals to "automatic writing" or "spirit writing."The Golden Pot
Summary: Former LDS Church Education System (CES) teacher Grant Palmer argues that Joseph Smith developed his story of visits by Moroni and the translation of a sacred book from The Golden Pot, a book by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann.{{SummaryItem |link= |subject=Sidney Rigdon as the author of the Book of Mormon |summary= |sublink1=Sidney Rigdon: "in all of my intimacy with Joseph Smith he never told me but one story" |sublink2=Question: Why do some critics think that Sidney Rigdon was the author of the Book of Mormon?Question: Why do some critics think that Sidney Rigdon was the author of the Book of Mormon?