Young And Others. Reported by G. Watt And Others. Do you think He cares? Is there a way to know for sure? Is the God who created the universe still in the business of changing lives? It is the journey of a family of seven, devoted to a religion they loved and had no intention of ever leaving—but God had other plans.
The typeface is easy to read. The book is a significant improvement in historiography of Joseph Smith. This is scholarly work but simple enough for a general audience. The editors should be proud of their work. I recommend the book. Michael Marquardt, Journal of Mormon History 35, no. Though the editors acknowledge being LDS adherents, they have done their work according to the modern standards of documentary editing and are at no point guilty of preparing or presenting their texts in tendentious ways.
All in all, the volume is an impressive achievement, and it is to be hoped that future volumes in the Joseph Smith Papers Project will match its quality of scholarship. These volumes—may I live to see the release of the entire series—will be indispensable for the next generation of scholars on Mormon history. It provides both content and context—it relates what Joseph wrote, and gives the modern reader a glimpse at what was going on around him.
The editors have an obvious command of the relevant literature. This is the finest edition of Mormon primary documents ever produced. It sets a new standard in transcription, editing and production that will be hard to match. The Joseph Smith Papers will forever change that by producing a monumental critical edition of every document written, dictated, or supervised by the Mormon prophet.
This first offering, Journals, Volume 1: —, already gives readers and researchers a fascinating glimpse of a new Joseph Smith. Its five texts depict a gifted young leader struggling to guide his unruly new religious movement on two fronts.
All of these roles come vividly to life in these manuscript journals, meticulously edited according to the highest critical standards. Journals, Volume 1 is a splendid debut for what is certain to become one of the great landmarks in LDS publishing and scholarship. Marini, Professor of Religion, Wellesley College.
Consequently, primary sources that permit beginning students and veteran scholars to examine the reality Latter-day Saints experienced are much in demand. The Joseph Smith papers are absolutely central to understanding and interpreting what happened. Replacing and going far beyond the History of the Church, edited by B.
Roberts in the early years of the last century, it truly inaugurates this new era in Mormon studies. Do you know of any Joseph Smith documents that we might not have heard about? Tell us. All rights reserved. Created with sketchtool. Doctrinal Study Heavenly Parents. Doctrinal Study Holy Ghost. Doctrinal Study Jesus Christ. Journal of Discourses. Doctrinal Study Missionary Work. Doctrinal Study Obedience. Doctrinal Study Ordinances. Peace and Violence among 19th-Century Latter-day Saints.
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