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unusual facts about The Book of Mormon



Jared Gertner

Gertner was the understudy for Josh Gad in the role of Arnold Cunningham in the musical The Book of Mormon.

Stephen Oremus

His orchestrations (with Larry Hochman) for The Book of Mormon won him a Tony Award in 2011, for Best Orchestrations.

Valisia LeKae

Previously, she was a swing and understudy in the Broadway productions of The Book of Mormon (2011), Ragtime (2009), and The Threepenny Opera (2006) and a performer in 110 in the Shade (2007).


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Abner Cole

Cole presented Smith as a charlatan too uneducated to have written the Book of Mormon himself and supposed that Smith got help from "Walters the Magician" (Luman Walter) who was said to have shown his followers a Latin translation of Cicero and claimed that it was a record of the Native Americans.

Eight Witnesses

Toward the end of June, 1829, at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. home in Fayette, New York, Joseph Smith (with Oliver Cowdery as scribe) finished the translation of the Book of Mormon.

Genetics and the Book of Mormon

LDS/Mormon researchers such as anthropologist Thomas W. Murphy and former-LDS plant geneticist Simon Southerton state that the substantial collection of Native American genetic markers now available are not consistent with any detectable presence of ancestors from the ancient Middle East, and argued that this poses substantial evidence to contradict the account in the Book of Mormon.

Lehi

Lehi, son of Helaman, another prophet in the Book of Mormon of the late 1st century BC

Limited geography model

These models, developed in an effort to reconcile claims in the Book of Mormon with archaeology and geography, have situated the book's events in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Great Lakes area.

Linguistics and the Book of Mormon

The words "Christ" and "Messiah" are used several hundred times throughout the Book of Mormon.

Moroni

The Book of Moroni, one of several divisions contained in the Book of Mormon, and portrayed as having been written by the above Moroni.

Angel Moroni, the angel that Joseph Smith, Jr. claimed visited him on numerous occasions and led him to the golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon, said to be the same Moroni portrayed in the book.

Captain Moroni, a figure in the Book of Mormon, portrayed as a military commander distinct from the Moroni described above.

Nefi

Nephi, a name use by several people and places in the Book of Mormon

Origin of the Book of Mormon

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.