If Joseph Smith fabricated the Book of Mormon, he would have needed to remember and keep straight hundreds of sequentially consistent dates throughout its more than 500 pages. This would have been especially difficult during the record’s multiple flashbacks or when its three separate calendar systems overlap. . To better understand what I’m talking about, we’re going to have to break down the timeline. . Mosiah 29:46 says that the 1st year of the reign of the judges coincided with the 509th year