FootnoteResearcher William L. Davis announced his theory that Smith was inspired by John Bunyan’s work in the LA Review of Books (October 30, 2012). http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1135 Pratt references Bunyon’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” in the following...
FootnoteMormon 6:6 – Therefore I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni.
FootnoteOne other possible place for introduction of the Book of Ether is after the Book of Mosiah, The Book of Mormon and another Mormon scripture – the Book of Moses – describe a continuous narrative involving the provenance of prophetic records and interpreters....
