The Canon of Scripture, Part 8: The Book of Mormon
The canon of Scripture is a settled issue, isn’t it? You’ve got your 66 books total, 39 in the Old Testament (24 by the Jewish counting) and 27 in the New Testament. However, when you do the research, things are not so simple. There are many “other” books claiming to be Scripture, a number of them accepted by various denominations and/or included in various Bibles over the years. Are they Scripture? Or just heretical additions? Previous installments in this series: Part 1: The Apocrypha Part 2: Enoch and Jubilees Part 3: Jasher Part 4: The Other Books of Baruch Part 5: The Other Books of Enoch Part 6: The Lost Book of Ezekiel Part 7: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (What? I'm trying to be as thorough as possible!) Now, after a 4 month break, I'm covering the Book of Mormon , published by Joseph Smith (founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) in the 1800s, who claimed to have translated it from golden tablets shown him by a dead man-turne...