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What Is The Book of Mormon?
The Book of Mormon is composed of fifteen books, each divided into chapters and verses much like the Bible is. The text includes the account of an ancient prophet named Mormon, who lived in the 5th century A.D., and who gathered more than a thousand years of records, abridging them into what is now known as The Book of Mormon (Mormon 6.6)…Contrary to common assumptions, The Book of Mormon is not the Latter-day Saint version of the Bible.
Patheos Editorial Team, Patheos.org
... The Book of Mormon is essentially the narration of a group of Israelites who migrate to the New World [around] 600 B.C., led by a prophet figure called Lehi. It chronicles God's dealings with them; it chronicles the fragmentation of that people into two primary races, the Lamanites and the Nephites. In many ways it's a morality tale, as it chronicles the adversities they face when they are wicked, the blessings that are accrued through righteousness.
PBS.org, Terryl Givens Professor of Litterature and Religion at the University of Richmond
In early 1830, an unknown farmer in upstate New York burst upon the world’s book-publishing scene. The Book of Mormon rolled off the Grandin Press in Palmyra, New York, with Joseph Smith listed as “author and proprietor” on the title page… The fanfare surrounding the printing of the Book of Mormon arose from his claims that he had translated the book from an unknown language (inscribed on ancient metal plates) by the “gift, and power of God.
Brian C. Hales, Works published in BYU Studies Quarterly
Read The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon, Translated By Joseph Smith
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Commentaries
Nibley's Commentary On The Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon, Student Manual
A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Mormon