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The Lost Tribe folklore was already almost 2 centuries old by the time Smith produced the Book of Mormon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Lost_Tribes#Native_
by bunderbunder 8y ago
The Lost Tribe folklore was already almost 2 centuries old by the time Smith produced the Book of Mormon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Lost_Tribes#Native_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Lost_Tribes#Native_America...
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- jacobolus 8y agoAha, fair enough. The Mormons have put a lot more work into trying to defend/substantiate this theory than its other adherents have, from what I can tell searching around the web.
- ChainOfFools 8y agoit's also not unreasonable to assume that the prevalence of these myths was itself a major contributing substrate of the theology dreamed up by Joseph Smith.