Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Malachi, and the Small Plates as Nephite pseudepigrapha
Over at my Book of Mormon blog, I try to account for a striking pattern in the Book of Mormon's use of Malachi, and arrive at the tentative conclusion that the Small Plates were written by Nephites of the Christian era rather than by Nephi, Jacob, and the others whose words they claim to be.
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