Did the Book of Napoleon influence the Book of Mormon? | Ep. 212

Some critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claim that Joseph Smith plagiarized or sought inspiration from The First Book of Napoleon in his (according to critics) fraudulent writing of the Book of Mormon. But, is that actually true? Listen in!

— “The First Book of Napoleon, the Tyrant of the Earth,” by Eliakim the Scribe: https://tinyurl.com/yu5dsyfz
— “CES Letter 15 to 17 Late War,” via The CES Letter A Closer Look: https://tinyurl.com/ym88tvnh
— “Was the Book of Mormon Plagiarized from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?” by Jeff Lindsay: https://tinyurl.com/2t368bve
— “The First Book of Napoleon,” via The CES Letter A Closer Look: https://tinyurl.com/387azfud
— “Michael Linning : Napoleon, the tyrant of the earth, Book 1 by Eliahim [i.e. Eliakim] the scribe, 1809,” via the State Library of New South Wales (Sydney, AU): https://tinyurl.com/4drd38en (see also: https://tinyurl.com/2p948wvf )

Notes:

— Many Latter-day Saint researchers have said that these phrases are scattered throughout the first *25* pages of The First Book of Napoleon. I assert in this video that they are scattered throughout the first 21 pages (not including the title page). My conclusion is based on the assumption that the CES Letter lists “because of the perverse wickedness of the people” out of order. If we force these phrases into the correct order, we have to abandon this precise wording and go for the next-closest match, which is “the wickedness and perverseness of the people” on page 25. This seems to be what some other Latter-day Saint researchers have done. Thus, we either have to assume that critics have gotten the order of this phrase wrong, or the wording.

— Two additional bits of information contribute to the leading theory that Michael Linning was the true author of the First Book of Napoleon. First, Eliakim spelled backwards is Mikaile, which could audibly sound like Michael. In other words, Michael might have chosen Eliakim as his pen name at least in part due to a potential connection with his own name. Second (and I think this is the stronger evidence of the two), about seven years after the First Book of Napoleon was published, Linning motioned to have a memorial built for the Scottish soldiers who died in the Napoleonic wars. Source: https://tinyurl.com/2f7ak63k

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