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Date: September 19, 2012 04:56AM
This is just nonsense intended for an audience that needs reassurance that someone else has done the thinking for them.
This work in progress explains the role of the others mentioned:
http://mormonleaks.com/The longer (earlier) version is here:
http://sidneyrigdon.com/criddle/rigdon1.htmThe evidence for the Spalding theory is not bad. Both Lucy Smith and Oliver Cowdery told known porkies for Joseph, so they are quite likely involved to some degree. Rigdon was caught out lying about his past on key issues related to his access to the original Spalding manuscript. Uncle Dale's early textual analysis has been confirmed by statistical lexical analysis of the Book of Mormon. Mormonleaks will have all that information up in due course I believe. In the meantime, the site has a raft of links to follow. I was converted to the Spalding theory after the paper was published, but there has been more confirmatory work done since.
Joseph shared power because from the start he was in a bit of a power struggle with Rigdon. Neither could betray the other without getting lynched. Initially Joseph was just the translator, NOT the prophet.