Benjamin McGuire has done a great deal of work on literary-critical issues relating to the Book of Mormon.
In one article, he tackles the nonsense theory that the 1816 book, The Late War Between the United States and the Great Britain was a source Joseph Smith used to compose the Book of Mormon:
The Late War Against the Book of Mormon
In a solid, scholarly manner, it blows the theory of Christ and Duane Johnson out of the water. As with other theories, such as the Spalding Theory, careful, scholarly analysis shows it for what it is--utter nonsense and parallelomania.
In one article, he tackles the nonsense theory that the 1816 book, The Late War Between the United States and the Great Britain was a source Joseph Smith used to compose the Book of Mormon:
The Late War Against the Book of Mormon
In a solid, scholarly manner, it blows the theory of Christ and Duane Johnson out of the water. As with other theories, such as the Spalding Theory, careful, scholarly analysis shows it for what it is--utter nonsense and parallelomania.