H. Michael Marquardt

H. Michael Marquardt is an independent researcher of the Latter Day Saint movement.[1]

Contributions

Book of Abraham

Jerald and Sandra Tanner, critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), obtained an unauthorized copy of a microfilm strip containing images of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers in 1966, and published them as Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet & Grammar. The Tanner publication was revised and updated by Marquardt in 1981. Marquardt added a critical apparatus and some interpretive material.[2]

Collaboration with Wesley Walters

He was a collaborator with Wesley P. Walters, and made some of the first critical arguments for a different timeline of early Mormonism. Specifically, they argued that the Joseph Smith family did not move to Manchester until after 1820, and that the religious excitement Smith spoke of in his 1838 first vision account did not occur until 1823–1824. They also were among the first to argue that the Church of Christ was founded in Manchester, New York instead of Fayette, New York as is noted in the official history of the LDS Church.[3]

Publications
  • Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record with H. Michael Marquardt – Signature Books October 15, 1998 ISBN 1560851082

References
  1. Marquardt, H. Michael., and Wesley P. Walters. Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record. Smith Research Associates, 1998.
  2. H. Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papers, (Cullman, Ala.: Printing Service, 1981).
  3. Peterson, Paul H. (1995) "Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record by H. Michael Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters,"BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 35 : Iss. 4 , Article 14. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol35/iss4/14


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