This book, she claims, was based in part on an earlier work, View of the Hebrews, by a contemporary clergyman Ethan Smith.
It is argued that several passages and many thematic elements in The Book of Mormon share strong paralledls with the work View of the Hebrews, published in 1823, with an expanded edition in 1825, by Ethan Smith.
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Roberts notes several parallels between the migration of the Jaredites and that of the Ten Lost Tribes in the Jewish apocalypse 2 Esdras (as interpreted by Ethan Smith).