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 ...

Object Details author Bushman, Richard L., Contents The gold plates imaginary -- Translator : Joseph Smith, 1823-1829 -- Making scripture : The Book of Mormon -- Presence : family and friends, ...

Debate continues about how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, the foundational scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Historian Bushman (Joseph Smith) offers a meticulous study of the gold plates that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, reported discovering near his home in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1823. Bushman ...

Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates is not a one-off book. Rather it ranks as a crowning achievement of Bushman’s luminous career not only in Latter-day Saint studies but also in the bare-knuckle ring of the ...

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Actor portraying Joseph Smith in the church's 2005 movie, "Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration," examines gold plates containing the Book ...

The history of Joseph Smith, the 19th-century prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

Joseph Smith's story is a classic coming-of-age story. He has the vision as an extraordinarily young man. He reaches the emotional maturity necessary to discover the gold plates still as a very ...

The Mormon Church has released images of a stone used by Joseph Smith, Jr., to translate symbols on gold plates into the test for the Book of Mormon.

The history of Joseph Smith, the 19th-century prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.