Lu B. Cake argues that Joseph borrowed from the Old and New Testament, and Shakespeare, when producing the Book of Mormon.
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Lu B. Cake, Peepstone Joe and the Peck Manuscript (New York: Lu B. Cake, 1899), 61
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CORROBORATION FOUND IN THE BOOK OF MORMON
To make the Book of Mormon, Joe had to convert the historical romance of Spalding into a Bible—add some religious matter. Hence you find a variation of Daniel reading the writing on the wall,
Book of Mormon, . . . . . . page 235
Some Apocalypse and Church of Rome, pages 23, 28
Variation of Paul’s conversion, . . . page 201
Variation of Peter’s escape from prison, pages 232, 251
Variation of lying of Ananias (didn’t scare Joe), page 241
Variation fiery furnace, . . . . . page 401
Variation of Elijah’s rain and drought, . . page 417
Variation Daniel in lion’s den, . . pages 489, 495
Then Shakespeare is translated from plates buried 1,200 years before the post was born: “The cold and silent grace, whence no traveller returns.” And this sounds unlike the ancients: “from nature up to nature’s God.” But Joe thought they sounded well and worked them in rather out of date.
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