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 also used his seer stone to seek buried treasure, and; ... Parker’s vision of Smith pulling a translation out of hat was actually a darn sight more historically accurate than the ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

If there were no Book of Mormon, a text Smith literally pulled out of a hat, there would be no Mormonism. Advertisement John G. Turner, the author of a new biography of Smith , has relatively few ...

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 ...