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Jan 19, 2021
11:49:01pm
SinkingQuffa Intervention Needed
Bradley's BoM analysis is thorough. He can be a soundly creative reader
& reasoner — who unfortunately has a thing for highly speculative scripture expansion — and also for crediting ideological influences to key historical persons — with little if any substantiation. His analysis of scripture is perhaps worth the read & price if you're interested in that stuff, but unfortunately his historical premises are often wacked, & he tries to expand the BoM text by turning to some very questionable 19th century sources (that he thinks are clear examples of direct or second-hand oral transmission by actual witnesses to the lost content of the 116 pages of the Bk of Lehi).

Many of these witnesses are anything but clear examples of that, though. And his favorite source of such expansion is a short lampoon piece from late 19th Cent upstate NY — aimed specifically at discrediting Joseph Smith. While the piece was almost surely written by a one-time insider, Bradley's convinced it was written by one of the conspirators who stole the 116 pg manuscript. I think he's a bit disingenuous about how much of the history of that piece --& the claimed author behind it-- he has established as verifiable fact. Without a clear picture of who the author of the piece even was, it's of course impossible to make the desirable connection between Martin Harris & he. Really, there's too little substantiation in his presentation of this mystery person to trust Bradley's study as a strong historical research. Even still, it's a revised contraction of a Master's Thesis that earned Bradley a History degree from Utah State (w additional scripture-oriented material for the LDS reader). (You can download the thesis free & legal here: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7060/)
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