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The Book of Mormon : A Biography /

Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would...

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Autor principal: Gutjahr, Paul C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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