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The Book of Mormon : the earliest text by Royal Skousen; Joseph Smith Jr. is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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The most accurate and readable edition of the Book of Mormon ever published, based on the earliest sources available "The product of over two decades of painstaking labor by Royal Skousen . . . this Yale edition aims to take us back to the text Smith envisioned as he translated, according to the faithful, from golden plates that he unearthed in upstate New York."Stephen Prothero, Wall Street Journal Will forever change the way Latter-day Saints approach modern scripture. Two hundred years from now students of the Book of Mormon will still be poring over Skousens work. What he has accomplished is nothing short of phenomenal.Grant Hardy, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its estimated 13 million members. Over the past twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smith's original manuscripts and identified more than 2,000 textual errors in the 1830 edition. Although most of these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying and typesetting the text, the Yale edition contains about 600 corrections that have never appeared in any stan

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Author
Royal Skousen; Joseph Smith Jr.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780300142181
Category
religious
Subjects
Philosophy, Religion, Humanities
Rating
4.55 / 5 (64 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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