In the 1820s, church founder Joseph Smith said an angel directed him to a hill near his home in upstate New York, where he unearthed gold plates containing text written in “reformed Egyptian ...

The gold plates imaginary -- Translator : Joseph Smith, 1823-1829 -- Making scripture ... Global perspectives -- Appendices -- Composition -- The translation ... in recent years. Apologists never made ...

In 1829, after Smith finished the translation, Moroni took them back, never to be seen again by Smith or any other mortal eye. But the story does not end there. Bushman argues that in LDS culture, the ...

On this special live episode of "Mormon Land," we talk with Latter-day Saint scholars Richard and Claudia Bushman about the Book of Mormon, Joseph and Emma Smith, the gold plates, women's rights ...

Joseph Smith, his seer stone and Book of Mormon translation come up in federal court hearing on ... Who knows what happened in 1820 or whether he sat at a table and looked at gold plates? ...

In 1827, Joseph retrieved this record, inscribed on thin golden plates, and shortly afterward began translating its words by the "gift of God." 3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon , was ...

• To celebrate our 300th podcast, we staged a live show and a lively discussion about Joseph, the gold plates, women’s rights and much more with Richard Bushman, the patriarch of Mormon ...

Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History Richard Lyman Bushman. Oxford Univ, $34.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-197-67652-3 ...