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[…] “Pentateuch,” 748. In An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1927), 200-02. For a similar approach, see A. A. Ramseyer, “Who Wrote the Pentateuch?” Improvement […]
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<i>Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 49–76</i><br>What of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?