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Mosiah priority is a theory about the creation of the Book of Mormon arguing that the original manuscript began not with 1 Nephi (found at the beginning of the Book of Mormon), but midway through, starting with Mosiah. According to Mosiah priority, after the text of Mosiah through the end of the Book of Mormon was transcribed, Joseph Smith returned to the beginning and transcribed 1 Nephi through Words of Mormon. Mosiah priority is the most widely held solution to questions regarding the sequence of the English text.
The naturalistic interpretation of the process was that Smith was not translating anything, but simply making up the text which consists of 269,528 words, and was dictated in just nine weeks. Such a feat would rank Smith as one of the most prolific English authors in recorded history.[1]
- ^ Brian C. Hales (February 15, 2019). "Curiously Unique:Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon"
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