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Revision as of 00:01, 18 May 2017
Language used in the Book of Mormon
As a "familiar spirit"
Summary: Critics ask why, if the words "familiar spirit" in Is. 29:4 refer to the Book of Mormon (as used in 2_Ne. 26:16, why does "familiar spirit" always refer to occult practices such as channeling and necromancy everywhere else in the Old Testament?Phrases found in the Book of Mormon
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- Question: Why does "and it came to pass" appear so often in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Does the term "familiar spirit" in the Book of Mormon refer to occult practices?
Wordprint studies and the Book of Mormon
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- Question: What do wordprint studies say about the Book of Mormon?
- Larsen and Rencher: "Our approach is sometimes referred to as the science of stylometry, which can be defined loosely as statistical analysis of style"
- Matthew Roper, Paul J. Fields, and Atul Nepal: "have applied the latest iteration of computer analyses to the unsigned editorials that appear in 1842 in the Times and Seasons"