As Latter-day Saints prepare to study the Book of Mormon in 2024, the Joseph Smith Papers is providing a historic online resource to help enhance gospel learning — a collection of digital images of ...

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 claimed that he “translated” the Book of Mormon from secret sources, but Turner again opts for “the simplest conclusion,” that Smith wrote it himself. Some Mormon historians have ...

In honor of the 200th anniversary of the angel Moroni’s first appearance to Joseph Smith on Sept. 21-22, the Church News has compiled testimonies of the Book of Mormon given by each member of the ...

In this week's "Mormon Land," we discuss new theories for how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon: Did he use a seer stone or "interpreters" called the urim and thummim?

Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes interview the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, whose new book, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” is a graphic-novel biography of the American prophet. An excerpt ...

The history of Joseph Smith, ... Smith translated the writing on the plates into the Book of Mormon, which tells the story of the ancient people of America. It was published in 1830.