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 ...

How did Joseph Smith translate the Book ... In March I was privileged to be part of a conference at USU on “New Perspectives on Joseph Smith and Translation, ... were the plates merely like ...

The 2003 "South Park" depiction of the Book of Mormon's translation process turns out to be more accurate than sanitized LDS images of Joseph Smith poring over the golden plates.

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 ...

The plates of the Book of Mormon were translated in a sense by Joseph Smith and in a sense not by Joseph Smith. Joseph didn't have the capacity to translate any modern or ancient language ...

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? ...

Kent Jackson, a Brigham Young University professor of ancient scripture, will discuss recent findings from a study of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible during a "House of Learning" lecture on ...

In March I was privileged to be part of a conference at USU on “New Perspectives on Joseph Smith and Translation,” taking on some of the latest scholarship on Smith’s role in translating the ...