When the Book of Mormon was published, there was not a single translation of the Palestine Talmud available in any modern language.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Did Hugh convenintly forget that Joey Smith was learning Hebrew at one time ???
Or was the mormon god not able to read Hebrew ???
Or is he just admitting that Joey Smith wrote his book of mormon without doing any research or proper sourcing of its contents ???
it is like a sci-fi novel