Joshua cites the book of Jasher. Chronicles points to the books of Nathan, Gad, and Iddo. Jude quotes Enoch, and Paul mentions a letter from Laodicea. Here are the books the Bible quotes that it doesn’t contain, and what they mean for the claim that the Bible is all there is.
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Between April 7 and about June 30, 1829, Joseph Smith dictated roughly 269,500 words, a few dozen at a time, with no notes and no rewrite. The timeline, the math, and what the text kept straight. Part 5 of 10.
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In 1826 a New York justice examined Joseph Smith as “the Glass Looker.” In 1830 two more courts heard the same charge and let him go. Here is what the surviving records prove, what they don’t, and what critics usually leave out.
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Joseph Smith, his scribe Oliver Cowdery, and the revelations of 1828–29 all name the same instrument: the Urim and Thummim found with the plates. Here is the Joseph Smith Foundation’s case, the sources behind it, and how to weigh the later stone-in-a-hat accounts.
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“Joseph Smith was a money digger.” He said so himself in 1838, for fourteen dollars a month. What critics leave out: treasure seeking was widespread among churchgoing Christians in 1820s New England and New York, the man who hired Joseph was a Presbyterian who later joined the Church, and the Bible has its own seer for lost property in 1 Samuel 9.
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