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Cumorah Revisited; Charles Augustus 18761939 Shook 9781361671245 Books
This book was first published in 1910. Shook had apparently been raised as a Latter-day Saint, as he wrote in the Preface, "Having been taught in childhood to believe that the antiquities of America are the work of those accomplished races described in the Book of Mormon..."He continues, "I conceived the idea of making a special study of the Book of Mormon ... I became more and more surprised that this ground had not been more thoroughly worked by the anti-Mormon polemic before, while I became more and more convinced that in the data acquired by archaeological and ethnological research the opponent of this system has a mass of evidence which, if rightly used, will completely demolish the claims of the historical credibility of the Book of Mormon."
Here are some additional quotations from the book:
"...many of the ancient cities of Mexico and Central America were discovered long before the Book of Mormon appeared... Therefore the Book of Mormon simply stated what scientific men already knew about years before it came out." (Pg. 113)
"If (BOM) is what its defenders assert it to be, why have they left the work of archaeological research wholly in the hands of uninspired men? Why have they not gone forth, Book of Mormon in hand, and located the ruined cities of Central America and thus proved its infallibility and inspiration?" (Pg. 114)
"Neither of the great leaders of the Book of Mormon peoples, Jared or Nephi, practiced celibacy or auricular confession. Neither disappeared mysteriously from the summit at Mount Cempoaltepec. Neither was buried where Izamal now stands, like Zamna. Neither went into a monastic state at the close of their life's work. And neither disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. If it is objected that this reasoning is arbitrary, I ask, How is it to be determined that these minor details are not as historical as the claim that these culture heroes were white and bearded?" (Pg. 152)
"Now, it is not reasonable to suppose that a people with highly developed arts... should degenerate so far as to give up entirely the use of sculptured stone and mortar for wood and earth. And yet this must have been the case if the Book of Mormon is a true history of ancient America, for neither cut stone nor mortar were used by the Mound Builders." (Pg. 270-271)
"And it is probable that the horse and man were coexistent for sometime after the latter's arrival. But that the horse was here when man had developed himself into a semi-civilized being, and at the time those cities which have been attributed to the Jaredites and Nephites were erected, I most emphatically deny." (Pg. 381)
"It requires a wide stretch of the imagination to see in any of these native ceremonies a suggestion of the former practice of Christian baptism on this continent."
"If the ancient Americans held to the beliefs stated in the Book of Mormon, how is their total absence among the American Indians to be accounted for?" (Pg. 443)
"...we are asked to believe that all these American tongues originated not more than twenty-five hundred years ago in two languages brought over from the Old World to which they bear no analogies in construction and but few resemblances in words!" (Pg. 491)
"It the ancient Americans employed letters from the alphabets of the Old World, why have they not been found engraved on their monuments and inscribed in their manuscripts?" (Pg. 518)
"Instead of 'Reformed Egyptian' many of the 'Caractors' (on the Anthon Transcript) are deformed English, as any one will observe who will compare them with English letters, figures and signs. I have counted thirty-six different characters in the fac-simile, some of them occurring more than once, which are either identical with, or which closely resemble, the English." (Pg. 538)
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Cumorah Revisited; Charles Augustus 18761939 Shook 9781361671245 Books Reviews
This book was first published in 1910. Shook had apparently been raised as a Latter-day Saint, as he wrote in the Preface, "Having been taught in childhood to believe that the antiquities of America are the work of those accomplished races described in the Book of Mormon..."
He continues, "I conceived the idea of making a special study of the Book of Mormon ... I became more and more surprised that this ground had not been more thoroughly worked by the anti-Mormon polemic before, while I became more and more convinced that in the data acquired by archaeological and ethnological research the opponent of this system has a mass of evidence which, if rightly used, will completely demolish the claims of the historical credibility of the Book of Mormon."
Here are some additional quotations from the book
"...many of the ancient cities of Mexico and Central America were discovered long before the Book of Mormon appeared... Therefore the Book of Mormon simply stated what scientific men already knew about years before it came out." (Pg. 113)
"If (BOM) is what its defenders assert it to be, why have they left the work of archaeological research wholly in the hands of uninspired men? Why have they not gone forth, Book of Mormon in hand, and located the ruined cities of Central America and thus proved its infallibility and inspiration?" (Pg. 114)
"Neither of the great leaders of the Book of Mormon peoples, Jared or Nephi, practiced celibacy or auricular confession. Neither disappeared mysteriously from the summit at Mount Cempoaltepec. Neither was buried where Izamal now stands, like Zamna. Neither went into a monastic state at the close of their life's work. And neither disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. If it is objected that this reasoning is arbitrary, I ask, How is it to be determined that these minor details are not as historical as the claim that these culture heroes were white and bearded?" (Pg. 152)
"Now, it is not reasonable to suppose that a people with highly developed arts... should degenerate so far as to give up entirely the use of sculptured stone and mortar for wood and earth. And yet this must have been the case if the Book of Mormon is a true history of ancient America, for neither cut stone nor mortar were used by the Mound Builders." (Pg. 270-271)
"And it is probable that the horse and man were coexistent for sometime after the latter's arrival. But that the horse was here when man had developed himself into a semi-civilized being, and at the time those cities which have been attributed to the Jaredites and Nephites were erected, I most emphatically deny." (Pg. 381)
"It requires a wide stretch of the imagination to see in any of these native ceremonies a suggestion of the former practice of Christian baptism on this continent."
"If the ancient Americans held to the beliefs stated in the Book of Mormon, how is their total absence among the American Indians to be accounted for?" (Pg. 443)
"...we are asked to believe that all these American tongues originated not more than twenty-five hundred years ago in two languages brought over from the Old World to which they bear no analogies in construction and but few resemblances in words!" (Pg. 491)
"It the ancient Americans employed letters from the alphabets of the Old World, why have they not been found engraved on their monuments and inscribed in their manuscripts?" (Pg. 518)
"Instead of 'Reformed Egyptian' many of the 'Caractors' (on the Anthon Transcript) are deformed English, as any one will observe who will compare them with English letters, figures and signs. I have counted thirty-six different characters in the fac-simile, some of them occurring more than once, which are either identical with, or which closely resemble, the English." (Pg. 538)
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