In his new book, “Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History,” historian Richard Bushman calls the Book of Mormon, the signature scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

Bushman argues that in LDS culture, the absent plates functioned very much ... to translate revealed words from one medium to another—in this case, from golden plates to the printed page. That ...

Pratt’s Voice of Warning, argued that the Book of Mormon’s appearance was evidence of the end times. Moroni, who had delivered the gold plates to Joseph Smith, was soon identified as the angel ...

It all seems to make sense to them. You’ve now written about Smith’s purported gold plates, which he said he translated into the Book of Mormon. Were they really gold? Richard • The Book of ...

Mormonism's founder, the self-declared prophet Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated a new work of scripture (the Book of Mormon) from text written on golden plates he found buried in the ground.

Mormon turns over the core of what will become known as the Book of Mormon, transcribed on gold plates, to his son Moroni. Mormon is mortally wounded in the battle at a place called Cumorah ...

the Book of Mormon, inscribed on a set of golden plates. Smith explained that he had asked God which of the many churches was right and was told that they had all lost divine authority.

Then, keep reading for an explainer on the LDS Church, including misconceptions ... texts in the 1820s after an angel led him to golden plates buried in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New ...