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

Joseph Smith, his seer stone and Book of Mormon translation come up ... translated by founding prophet Joseph Smith from gold plates — or through visions from a brown “seer stone” in a hat. ...

How did Joseph Smith translate the Book of Mormon and other scriptures? Scholars are offering some new, more expansive possibilities of what we mean by translation.

Already by 1831-1832, Joseph Smith’s translation of John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12 intimates that he connected his First Vision with the idea of seeing God the Father and of God the Father bearing ...

“Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” (2005) Mitchell is the screen Smith most current Latter-day Saints know, since he played the founder in a much-screened church-produced biography.

The third volume of the Joseph Smith papers, which includes the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon is shown following a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, in Salt Lake City.

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 ...

Joseph Smith’s eighth Article of Faith famously states that Latter-day Saints “believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.” And English-speaking members ...

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 ...