Did Joseph Smith borrow from books like View of the Hebrews?
The Short Answer
The Book of Mormon is a long, doctrinally tight book that Joseph dictated in a few months — at age 23, with no notes in front of him. The Church's essay says the supposed parallels to other 1800s books don't actually hold up when you look closely. The real way to test it is to read it and pray about it.
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