Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 2

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  • Barry R. Bickmore, "The Tanners on the Hereafter:A Case Study in 'Studied Ignorance'," FAIR FAIR link
  • Michael R. Ash, "Up In Smoke: A Response to the Tanners' Criticism of the Word of Wisdom," FAIR Conference, 2000. off-site
  • Mike Ash, "Up In Smoke: A Response To the Tanners’ Criticism of the Word of Wisdom," Proceedings of the 2000 FAIR Conference (August 2000). link
  • Danel Bachman, "Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?: History or Propaganda? Joseph Smith as a Case Study," Proceedings of the 2000 FAIR Conference (August 2000). link
  • Daniel C. Peterson, "'Easier than Research, More Inflammatory than Truth'," Proceedings of the 2000 FAIR Conference (August 2000). link
  • Robert Vukich, "An Incident Concerning Page 81 of 'Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?'," Proceedings of the 2000 FAIR Conference (August 2000). link
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Lawrence Foster, Dialogue<ref>Lawrence Foster, "Career Apostates:Reflections on the Works of Jerald and Sandra Tanner," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17 no. 2 (Summer 1984), 45–46.
  • Todd Compton's response to Jerald and Sandra Tanners' Review of In Sacred Loneliness off-site
  • Allen Wyatt, "Largely Shadow, Short of Reality," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/6 (17 November 2023). [135–158] link
  • Tom Nibley, "A Look at Jerald and Sandra Tanner's Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 5/1 (1993). [273–289] link
  • L. Ara Norwood, "Review of Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 3/1 (1991). [158–169] link
  • Matthew Roper, "'A Black Hole That's Not So Black (Review of Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism of the Book, vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner)'," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6/2 (1994). [156–203] link
  • John A. Tvedtnes and Matthew Roper, "Joseph Smith's Use of the Apocrypha: Shadow or Reality? (Review of Joseph Smith's Use of the Apocrypha by Jerald and Sandra Tanner)," FARMS Review 8/2 (1996). [326–372] link
  • Matthew Roper, "Review of Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 3/1 (1991). [170–187] link
  • Matthew P. Roper, "Review of Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 4/1 (1992). [169–215] link
  • Matthew Roper, "Unanswered Mormon Scholars (Review of Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism Raised by Mormon Defenders)," FARMS Review 9/1 (1997). [87–145] link
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "'Review of Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism of the Book, vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner,'," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6/2 (1994). [204–249] link
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Review of Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner," Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 3/1 (1991). [188–230] link
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Response to "Answering Mormon Scholars" (Vol. 2)



A FAIR Analysis of: Answering Mormon Scholars: A Response to Criticism Raised by Mormon Defenders [Vol. 2], a work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Response to claims made in "Answering Mormon Scholars" (Vol. 2) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner


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Matthew Roper, "Unanswered Mormon Scholars"

Matthew Roper,  FARMS Review of Books, (1997)
Answering Mormon Scholars is the sequel to an earlier volume by that name, which received detailed review in the 1994 Review of Books on the Book of Mormon.1 After some preliminary observations, I will discuss the propriety of occasional responses to critics of the church, Joseph Smith's role as a seer and translator, the issue of B. H. Roberts's faith in the Book of Mormon, nineteenth-century parallels with the Book of Mormon discussed by the Tanners, and several additional issues of geography, archaeology, and language as they may relate to the Book of Mormon.

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