The question of whether the Book of Mormon is an actual historical work or a work of fiction has long been a source of contention between members of the Latter Day Saint movement and non-members. For many Mormons, Book of Mormon historicity is a matter of faith. For non-members, on the other hand, its historicity is not accepted, and specific claims made in the Book of Mormon have been questioned from a number of different perspectives.

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  • The question of whether the Book of Mormon is an actual historical work or a work of fiction has long been a source of contention between members of the Latter Day Saint movement and non-members. For many Mormons, Book of Mormon historicity is a matter of faith. For non-members, on the other hand, its historicity is not accepted, and specific claims made in the Book of Mormon have been questioned from a number of different perspectives.
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  • All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
  • An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
  • Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon
  • Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon
  • By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion
  • How Many Nephites?: The Book of Mormon at the Bar of Demography
  • Isaiah Variants in the Book of Mormon
  • Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon
  • Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Mormon Church
  • Manuscript Found: The Complete Original "Spaulding" Manuscript
  • Prophecy and Palimpsest
  • Studies of the Book of Mormon
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  • The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text
  • The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon : typographical facsimile of the entire text in two parts
  • The Return of Oliver Cowdery
  • The Structure of the Book of Mormon: A Theory of Evolutionary Development
  • Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?: The Critics and Their Theories
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  • The question of whether the Book of Mormon is an actual historical work or a work of fiction has long been a source of contention between members of the Latter Day Saint movement and non-members. For many Mormons, Book of Mormon historicity is a matter of faith. For non-members, on the other hand, its historicity is not accepted, and specific claims made in the Book of Mormon have been questioned from a number of different perspectives.
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