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|  | |subject=An overview of secular authorship theories for the Book of Mormon
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|  | |summary=An overview of the various authorship theories that critics have created to explain the existence of the Book of Mormon.
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|  | |summary=Some have claimed that Joseph Smithwrote the Book of Mormon while under the influence of an "epileptic fit," thus perpetuating a fraud without knowing it.
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|  | |sublink1=Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon under the influence of an "epileptic fit?"
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|  | |link=Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Automatic writing
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|  | |subject=Automatic writing
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|  | |summary=Some attempt to explain the complexity of the Book of Mormon through appeals to "automatic writing" or "spirit writing."
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|  | |sublink1=Question: Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon through a process known as"automatic writing?"
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|  | |summary=Former LDS Church Education System (CES) teacher Grant Palmer argues that Joseph Smith developed his story of visits by Moroni andthe translation of a sacred book from The Golden Pot, a book by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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|  | |sublink1=Question: Did Joseph Smith develop the story of Moroni's visit based upon information contained in the story ''The Golden Pot''?
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|  | |sublink2=Question: What influences led to the development of Grant Palmer's "Golden Pot" theory of Book of Mormon origin?
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|  | |subject=Critical theories that Sidney Rigdon was a Book of Mormon author or co-conspirator
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|  | |sublink1=Sidney Rigdon: "in all of my intimacy with Joseph Smith he never told me but one story"
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|  | |sublink2=Question: Why do some critics think that Sidney Rigdon was the author of the Book of Mormon?Question: Why do some critics think that Sidney Rigdon was the author of the Book of Mormon?
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|  | [[de:Das Buch Mormon/Autorschaft Theorien]]
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|  | [[es:El Libro de Mormón/Teorías Autoría]]
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|  | [[pt:O Livro de Mórmon/Teorias de Autoria]]
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