Here are the similarities between "The View of the Hebrews" and "The Book of Mormon"
extensive quotation from the prophecies of Isaiah in the Old Testament.
the Israelite origin of the American Indian
the future gathering of Israel and restoration of the Ten Lost Tribes
the peopling of the New World from the Old via a long journey northward which encountered "seas" of "many waters"
a religious motive for the migration
the division of the migrants into civilized and uncivilized groups with long wars between them and the eventual destruction of the civilized by the uncivilized
the assumption that all native peoples were descended from Israelites and their languages from Hebrew
the burial of a sacred book
the description of extensive military fortifications with military observatories or "watch towers" overlooking them
a change from monarchy to republican forms of government
the preaching of the gospel in ancient America
When I visited Jeff Lindsays website he basically just said how there are a lot of differences between the two books and the similarities are at best superficial, but of coarse there are differences between the two books, there not the same book. Why does that make it unlikely that it didn’t influence the theme of the Book of Mormon? Why does that make it unlikely that it was just one more of many things that influenced Joseph Smith? Why do Mormons claim the similarities are superficial and non important?
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