Filter: Life of Joseph Smith, Jr.
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1 Nephi 2
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Nephi is large in stature (just like JS Jr.) and rules over his older brothers (Hiram Hyrum, William, Sam), just as JS Jr. does. Also, Nephi has a brother named Sam, just like JS Jr.
1 Nephi 8
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Tree of Life vision of Joseph Smith, Sr. as recorded by Lucy Mack Smith in her biography of Joseph Smith, Jr.
1 Nephi 9
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The lost 116 pages episode (lost Book of Lehi, Lucy Harris) is written into the Book of Mormon.
1 Nephi 19
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The frame story of two sets of plates is needed to explain JS Jr.'s loss of the 116 pages, stolen from Martin Harris by Lucy Harris, and his inability to retranslate the same material from the original lost Book of Lehi. JS Jr. excelled at never letting a crisis go to waste.
2 Nephi 4
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Lehi's last words to his sons, Joseph Smith laments through the voice of Nephi, even quoting James.
2 Nephi 27
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JS Jr. writes about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon from contemporary events that only he would care about ("I cannot read a sealed book.")
2 Nephi 28
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Nephi explains that 19th century churches will contend one with another, which JS Jr. experienced first-hand during the Second Great Awakening.
Enos 1
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Enos prays all day and all night and gains a remission of his sins. Cf. JS Jr. 1832 account of First Vision of forgiveness.
Words of Mormon 1
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The lost 116 pages episode (lost Book of Lehi, Lucy Harris) is written into the Book of Mormon.
Mosiah 3
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King Benjamin's address is an outdoor, tent-and-revival-style sermon, similar to those preached during the Second Great Awakening, which was happening during Joseph Smith Jr.'s lifetime.
Mosiah 4
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The conversion experience in verses 1–3 reflects similar experiences at revival meetings and religious fervor characteristic of the Second Great Awakening, a movement that deeply influenced Joseph Smith Jr. and his contemporaries. Specifically Mosiah 4 and 6 include elements of public conversion pioneered by revival preachers of the time, including Charles Finney. In other words, public conversion experiences were not merely unique to the Christian era, they were unique to the 19th century and pioneered by these preachers in this area of America.
Mosiah 6
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The conversion experience in verses 1–2 reflects similar experiences at revival meetings and religious fervor characteristic of the Second Great Awakening, a movement that deeply influenced Joseph Smith Jr. and his contemporaries. Specifically Mosiah 4 and 6 include elements of public conversion pioneered by revival preachers of the time, including Charles Finney. In other words, public conversion experiences were not merely unique to the Christian era, they were unique to the 19th century and pioneered by these preachers in this area of America.
Mosiah 8
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And it also refers to JS Jr.'s own career as a treasure seer and glass-looker, with his seer stone (which he was actively using to translate the Book of Mormon itself), a very self-conscious moment, among many such. “A seer is greater than a prophet.” We get it Joseph, toot your own horn, much?
Alma 37
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Mentions the interpreters, e.g. peep stones / seer stones, refering to JS Jr.'s treasure digging.
Helaman 2
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JS Jr.'s brother Hiram even changed the spelling of his name to Hyrum because Hiram is the name of the neophyte in the Masonic induction rituals. Ironically JS Jr. would later use 1823's The Antiquities of Freemasonry as inspiration for other inspired scriptures, as well as joining the Scottish Rite masons in 1840s in Nauvoo, and using those rituals as the basis for secret keeping of the order of the New and Everlasting Covenant (of polygamy) leading up to his death.
Helaman 12
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Mormon mentions “if a man hide up a treasure in the earth ... it shall be accursed” which refers to JS Jr.'s time as a treasure digging seer.
Helaman 13
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Slippery treasure (v. 19, v. 31, v. 35) that is not protected by the Lord (a treasure guardian) gets lost in the earth, a reference to JS Jr.'s career as a treasure seer.
3 Nephi 11
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JS Jr. was obviously upset with Christians wrangling and contending with each other for centuries, and especially during the Second Great Awakening, to the point where we find these words on the lips of Jesus (3 Ne. 11:28–30): “And there shall be no disputations among you, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto been. For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another. Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away.”
Mormon 1
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Mormon mentions the curse on the land, with slippery treasure, a concept from JS Jr.'s life as a glass-looking treasure digger.
Ether 3
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The brother of Jared has a vision of the Lord and some Glass-Looker seer stones are touched to light up the barges.