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|L1=Response to claim: 298 - The author attributes Joseph's idea of God having a physical human form to the Jewish mystics who practiced Kabbalah
|L2=Response to claim: 338n2, 339n60 - The author claims that the Encyclopedia of Mormonism "was an official product of the LDS Church"
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==Response to claim: 298 - The author attributes Joseph's idea of God having a physical human form to the Jewish mystics who practiced Kabbalah==
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*The author claims that "Moshe Idel wrote that the Zohar 'is manifestly anthropomorphic'."
*The author claims that "Gershom Scholem wrote of the Cabala's 'almost provocatively conspicuous anthropomorphism'."
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{{misinformation|The author wants to attribute Joseph's idea of God having a physical human form (anthropomorphism) to the Jewish mystics who practiced Kabbalah.  But, the author twists and distorts his source, which clearly states that the anthropomorphism of God is only allegorical in Kabbalah. The author uses his sources to make it appear as if Kabbalah has a literal, rather than allegorical, conception of God in a human form.
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*Moshe Idel, ''Kabbalah: New Perspectives'' (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988), 107.
*Gershom Scholem, ''Kabbalah'' (New York: Quadrangle, 1974), 141.
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*{{Detail|../Use of sources/Anthromorphism in Kabbalah|l1=Anthromorphism in Kabbalah?}}

==Response to claim: 338n2, 339n60 - The author claims that the ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'' "was an official product of the LDS Church"==
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|claim=The author claims that the ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'' "was an official product of the LDS Church."
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*No source provided.
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{{misinformation|The author wants to make the Encyclopedia of Mormonism an 'official' work, when the book, its editor, its authors, and publisher all assert that it is not. 
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{{:Question: Are some publications misrepresented as "official" publications of the Church?}}



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