On one occasion Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the LDS religion, quoted from seventeen different languages (not always accurately). At another time he claimed, “I know more than all the world put together” and went on to discuss the meaning of various Hebrew, Latin, German, and Greek versions of the Bible. Times and Seasons, V, 614-617. (Times and Seasons was a monthly LDS publication, 1839-1846. Online at Times and Seasons.)
For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today (Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an audiobook and as an expanded-text E-book for Nook, Kindle and other reading devices.
