Both critics and promoters of the Book of Mormon have used linguistic methods to

analyze the text. Promoters have published claims of stylistic forms that Joseph
Smith and his contemporaries are unlikely to have known about, as well as
similarities to Egyptian and Hebrew. Critics of the Book of Mormon claim there are
places where the language is anachronistic and suggestive of a 19th-century origin
consistent with Smith's upbringing and life experience, as well as the books and
other literature published just preceding the time that the Book of Mormon was
published.[6]