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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Most of us can't really wrestle with the historical context of the BoM because there is no known historical context, other than recent efforts to find MesoAmerica in the BoM as Brant Gardner argues. But this is not something that the average Mormon attempts to do.
Seems to me that the BoM has almost been exclusively studied for what it says and what it symbolizes.
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Well, it is read for two reasons. First, to understand an unverifiable society that existed allegedly in a pre-Columbian context worshiped God and Christ in a 19th Century manner. Second, to use this platform as authority for the LDS Church.
I don't believe LDS read it in a form of typology as suggested by the Common Consent guy.