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Joseph Smith’s prophetic identity is rooted in part in his assumption of a biblical prophetic role like that of Moses or Elijah. Some Latter-day Saints have been troubled by the seeming contradiction of his involvement in magic. This paper seeks to demonstrate how tension between current notions of appropriate religious practice and historical data on …