I hope by now we have been able to establish a few important things. We were able to demonstrate using Magnalia Christi Americana that the settlement of America was believed to have been guided by God's hand, and that Americans had a particular fascination with a Biblical writing style in which an entire genre of psuedo-biblicia emerged. As I continued my readings of these psuedo-biblical books, I came across one that became the basis for how I will be approaching the Book of Mormon. John Leacock’s, The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times 1774-1775. probably comes as close to a contemporary of the Book of Mormon as I could find. As luck would have it, the first version I read was the 1987 edited version, which gave me a breakdown of the work and the literary methods used from 1774-1775. Title Page of the 1987 reprint . Here is the introduction: "The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, a parodic satire written as a six-
