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How the primary witnesses described the translation process - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
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ANSWER **✔✔- Sometimes Joseph translated without even looking at the plates |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




- Plates served a symbol that helped Jpseph increase his faith
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- Uniterrupted
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- Word for word, hard names spelt out
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- Used seer stone
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- Seer stone in a hat
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How long it took to translate the plates - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔65 days
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Martin Harris' experience in the translation process - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
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**✔✔Joseph Smith used a seer stone. Changed the stone to see if Joseph was |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




making it up; he wasn't. |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




How the plates were described by witnesses - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔
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How Joseph described the translation process - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
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**✔✔- Done by the gift and power of God (not much detailed description)
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, Presumed authorship of the title page - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Mostly |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Moroni, part Mormon (if not all Moroni) |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




3 stated purposes of The Book of Mormon (from the title page) - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
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ANSWER **✔✔- The great things the Lord has done for their fathers |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




- Know the covenants of the Lord and remember they haven't been cast off forever
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- Convince all (jew+gentile) that Jesus is the Christ
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The primary editors of the Book of Mormon and the differences in their approach
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- ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔- Nephi (light on history, heavy on prophecy
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and interpretation) ||||||




- Mormon (heavy on history, but uses it to teach moral lessons)
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- Moroni (timid author; mostly quotes)
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Important academic terms that can enhance our scriptural understanding: |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Hermeneutics, Historiography, Source criticism, Exegesis, Eisegesis - |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔- Hermeneutics: science of interpretation |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




- Historiography: study of how history is written (who wrote it, why, where, how,
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was it altered, etc?) |||||| |||||| ||||||




- Source criticism: Look at the sources of the book
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- Exegesis: interpretation based on context
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- Eisegesis: interpretation based on reader's perspective
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Concept of throne theophany and how it is captured in 1 Nephi - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
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ANSWER **✔✔- When a writer of scriptural text records seeing God in a throne
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