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Tables of Contents for Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
v
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface to the Second Edition
1
4
Prologue
5
6
Part One: Angels, Peepstones, and Gold Plates
``A Romancer of the First Water''
11
9
Visions and Revivals
20
13
The Prophet in His Own Country
33
7
The 1826 ``Trial''
40
14
A Record from the Earth?
54
10
``I Shall Proceed to Do a Marvelous Work''
64
12
The Gold Bible
76
13
``Send Them the Heralds of Salvation''
89
11
Part Two: Another Book of God?
Ancient or Modern?
100
6
A Vermont Preacher's Theory
106
14
The Idea and Its Development
120
16
Part Three: The Comparisons
To the Land of Promise
136
11
The Prophecies
147
18
The Division
165
9
The Wars
174
10
The Backsliding
184
17
The Arrival of Jesus
201
13
The Final Years
214
11
The Book of Ether
225
7
Part Four: Turmoil in Zion
The Curse of Cain
232
9
Steppingstones to Disaster
241
10
Epilogue
251
47
Appendices
A. The ``Wood Scrape''
254
5
B. The Book of Mormon and Ancient America
259
9
C. The Spalding Theory
268
13
D. The Book of Abraham
281
17
Notes and Bibliography
Notes
298
15
Bibliography
313
4
Index
317