Article Title

Old World People in the New? (Part 1)

Authors

John L. Sorenson

Keywords

Old World, New World, Joseph Smith, Toltec legend, Book of Mormon studies, ancient American people origins

Abstract

Joseph Smith is said, in 1842, to have "quoted with approval from the pulpit reports of certain Toltec legends which would make it appear that those people had come originally from the Near East in the time of Moses"; he did not connect the purported migration at all to the Book of Mormon.

Recommended Citation

Sorenson, John L. (1995) "Old World People in the New? (Part 1)," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 15: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol15/iss2/3