Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Epilepsy

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Criticism

Critics 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.

Source(s) of the Criticism

• I. Wiley Woodbridge, The Founder of Mormonism (New York, 1902).

Conclusion

A summary of the argument against the criticism.

Further reading

Printed material

• B.H. Roberts, "Counter Theories of Origin," New Witnesses for God, Vol. 3, Chapter XLIV, 347–406.GospeLink