Bible as History

Joseph Smith lived when people used candles to light their homes, and rode horses, in wagons or carriages.  "Joseph Smith had little formal schooling, but may have attended school briefly in Palmyra and received instruction in his home" & "Lucy Smith also noted that though he never read through the Bible until he was at least eighteen". "He was a gregarious, cheerful, imaginative youth, born to leadership, but hampered by meager education and grinding poverty" - He was newly married, man of only 24 years of age when he published the Book of Mormon. He then lived on the American frontier most of his life, in towns that he started/colonized without libraries or access to newspapers, unless he published them.

Ketef Hinnom

Ketef Hinnom (Hebrew: כֵּתֵף הִינוֹם katef hinom, "Shoulder of Hinnom")[1][2] is an archaeological site discovered in the 1970s southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Archaeological excavations held in the site uncovered a series of Iron Age period Judahite burial chambers, dating to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. It is famous for the Ketef Hinnom scrolls, which are the oldest surviving texts from the Hebrew Bible currently known, dated to 600 BC.