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Okay, so now let's look at the world view in the context a little bit.

Okay, so there is a poem.

A lot of times people, you know, you're saying you're going to talk about all the different

books that people maybe think are influencing, just as mistext and whether or not they

do.

So like view of the Hebrews, the late war, all these different things that people maybe

think are.

Unless people can demonstrate literary dependence like we have at the Bible, what I would suggest

that these are doing is showing, they are showing the general world view and understanding

of the contemporaries of Joseph Smith.

And so the idea that, you know, these ideas like Solomon's Faldings novel, any number

of these things that they sound so much like the Book of Mormon shouldn't surprise us

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