id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3402 Criticism of the Book of Mormon - Wikipedia .html text/html 7618 794 75 The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.[1][2] It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi, who claimed that it had been written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as "reformed Egyptian" engraved on golden plates that he personally transcribed.[3][4] Contemporary followers of the Latter Day Saint movement typically regard the text primarily as scripture, but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.[5] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3402.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3402.txt