Comments on: The Anthon Transcript…

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:53:30 +0000

Bobbi: I take cryptography much more seriously!

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:29:37 +0000

That’s FLDS, as in Fundamental mormon.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:27:28 +0000

Have any of y’all ever tried to read the book of mormon? My non-use of capital letters is deliberate. Really, Nick, I don’t think Joseph Smith’s ravings deserve any serious consideration from a cryptographer. Has anyone “out there” read any Mormon history such as “The Mountain Meadows” massacre? Not too long ago, the offshoot FDLS leader was finally jailed for life — for taking his various ancestors seriously!

By: gor llewin

gor llewin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:47:00 +0000

unlike, say, the voynich ms, or the disc of phaistos [ both which may be of historical interest], we know who, when and why knocked this out. frankly, compared with those, it doesnt even look worth bothering with.

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:28:03 +0000

Bryan: thanks for that, though I don’t personally believe Barry Fell’s prehistory of North America for a microsecond. There’s more on the Mi’kMaq script here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi'kmaq_hieroglyphic_writing . Anyone who relies on Fell as a basis for the Anthon Transcript really is a bit of a ‘sucker-fish’: although a few complex ideograms may well have been originally Mi’kMaq mnemonics, it seem extremely likely to me that a large number of other items were added around 1675 or later, and so post-dated the kind of shorthand I mentioned in the post.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:17:15 +0000

A video on this site may be of interest to you: http://www.bookofmormonevidence.org/video_gallery.php

2nd row from the bottom, the 2nd video from the left: Linguistic Correlations to the Book of Mormon. The gentleman in the video comments that some of the “Caractors” bear a remarkable similarity to MicMac (Algonquin) characters and these Native Americans were in the New England area, even in upstate New York. Maybe JS knew of their symbols and copied them. Although, the gentleman states that a non-LDS researcher did identify the MicMac characters as an egyptian heiratic in the 1970s and even called them reformed Egyptian.

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links for 2010-08-25 | Mastermesh's Delicious Links — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:33:45 +0000

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By: Seth Payne » Blog Archive » The Book of Mormon Translation Process and “Truth in Advertising”

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:33:29 +0000

[...] Also, there are periods of the translation for which we have no eyewitness accounts of the process. Thus, it is entirely possible that Joseph did study and look at the plates during these times as is depicted in art and film. After all, Joseph reports having the plates in his possession for long periods of time when no translation actually took place. It would not be unreasonable, therefore, to assume that he took occasion to browse through the plates. He must have looked at the plates at some point, for example, in order to produce the Anthon transcript. [...]

By: cinepro

cinepro — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:43:21 +0000

Just to be clear about the dates, Joseph Smith was visited by Moroni and told about the hidden plates in 1823, but didn’t actually retrieve them from the nearby hill until September of 1827.

Martin Harris took the “caractors” to Professor Anthon in New York in the spring of 1828, so the “caractors” were probably written by Joseph Smith sometime between then.

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Grim Writing ::: The Book of Mormon and Reformed Egyptian « Grimoires — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:44:26 +0000

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