"'Secret Combinations' Revisited" by Daniel C. Peterson

Rare Possessions: From The Archives of Book of Mormon Central

"'Secret Combinations' Revisited" by Daniel C. Peterson is a short article that appeared in the first issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. This article revisited an early criticism of the Book of Mormon, that the use of the term "secret combinations" and some derivatives were a thinly veiled attack on Masonry in the early 19th century. Dr. Peterson spends some effort to show how such an assertion has little basis in context. For the full text, visit the Book of Mormon Central Archive here: https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/node/276