Clark Braden argues that Laban's steel sword is an anachronism in the volume; attributes this mistake to Sidney Rigdon.
Clark Braden, "Mr. Braden's Tenth Speech," in E.L. Kelley and Clark Braden, Public Discussion of the Issues between the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Church of Christ [Disciples] (Lamoni, Iowa: The Herald Publishing House, 1913), 109
Laban's sword was steel, when it is a notorious fact that the Israelites knew nothing of steel for hundreds of years afterwards. Who but as ignorant a person as Rigdon would have perpetrated all these blunders?