Principles for assessing anachronisms

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What is an "anachronism" and how does it relate to the Book of Mormon?

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General information: Basics Gospel fulness Most correct book Plain doctrines Book of Mormon & Bible: Plagiarized from Bible? Keeping KJV errors? Translation method Dead Sea Scrolls Criticisms: Translation Chronology of events List of methods Textual changes Anachronisms? "Familiar spirit"? Author and proprietor? Hebrew in New World? Plagiarism accusations Apocrypha The King James Bible The Golden Pot The Westminster Confession The Wonders of Nature The Spalding manuscript View of the Hebrews North American place names The Comoros Islands Joseph Smith, Sr.'s dream
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Heartland as Hinterland
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