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 ...

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Latter-day Saints will recognize the names and major events, but should be aware “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” available on July 26 via Abrams Books, wasn’t produced by the church.

Smith’s own visions were of an angel named Moroni, who appeared to him several times before finally instructing him to retrieve the plates buried in Hill Cumorah. By then, Smith had married a ...

Everybody loves a good whodunit, but in the case of the Book of Mormon, the mystery is more like a howhedunit.. For more than 190 years, critics of Mormon founder Joseph Smith have tried to find ...

This 2001 “Ensign” cover shows Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon by poring over the plates — which is how many faithful Latter-day Saints have been instructed to imagine the process.

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

The gold plates imaginary -- Translator : Joseph Smith, 1823-1829 -- Making scripture : The Book of Mormon -- Presence : family and friends ... Apologists never made much of the witnesses, and, over ...