An Essay in Historical and Literary Criticism I. The Room With No Curtain There was no curtain. That single fact, so easily lost in two centuries of argument, is where any serious inquiry into the Book of Mormon must begin. In the spring of 1829, in a farmhouse in Fayette, New York, a twenty-three-year-old man … Continue reading The Miracle That Needs Explaining: Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the Burden of Divine Translation