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3. 3. Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 58.
4. 4. Ann Taves, “History and the Claims of Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates,” Numen 61, nos. 2–3 (2014): 182–207.
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