Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: This careful examination of the contents of the Book of Mormon is an inquiry into the findings of historians and anthropologists as compared with the claims and statements of the Mormon sacred writings. Mr. Fraser compares and contrasts the teachings of the Book of Mormon with known anthropological and archaeological facts. He scrutinizes the utterances of the book and draws attention to errors, contradictions, anachronisms and violations of common logic. The author is a student of anthropology, ethnology and linguistics with studies at University of Oregon, University of California and Northern Arizona University, plus field studies in the areas claimed by Mormons to be the homeland of the Book of Mormon people. Mr. Fraser has a deep sympathy for those present-day Mormon scientists and scholars who find themselves in the uncomfortable position between an authoritarian church hierarchy that must defend, at all costs, the integrity of their prophet, and the unrelenting facts of scientific research.