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‘Joseph the Prophet’: What we know about the new Joseph Smith biography

During the seventh annual Joseph Smith Papers Conference on Friday, President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a new biography of the ...

What President Oaks has written for BYU Studies about law, morality, Joseph Smith and resolving disagreements

BYU Studies published President Oaks’ own research on Joseph Smith in 1979, along with speeches at BYU (1975), the Library of ...
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These historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Here’s what they learned about him

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...
The Digital Universe

Final volume of Joseph Smith Papers to release on day of the Prophet’s martyrdom

The project team for the Joseph Smith Papers is set to release the final volume of the papers on June 27, the 179th anniversary of the Prophet’s martyrdom. The Joseph Smith Papers project is a ...
Publishers Weekly

JOSEPH SMITH: The Making of a Prophet

Was Joseph Smith a true prophet or a religious pretender? Vogel, who edited the five-volume series Early Mormon Documents, attempts to answer this and other questions in this somewhat tedious, ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

‘Mormon Land’: Deconstructing Carthage — Why Joseph was slain and why it was about more than religion

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints learn early on about the murder of their faith’s founder, Joseph Smith. They know that, on June 27, 1844 (179 years ago this month), he and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Joseph Smith, the Founder and Prophet of Mormonism, Was Born Into an Impoverished and Itinerant Family in Vermont

A granite obelisk rises 38.5 feet above the dark green woods of Sharon, a small town on the White River in Vermont. Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor, prophet ...
KSL

Church of Jesus Christ set to publish last of 27 volumes compiling Joseph Smith's written records

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The Salt Lake Tribune

For the first time, a woman will lead this church, which traces back to Joseph Smith

For the first time in its history, the Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has appointed a woman to lead the global faith of 250,000 ...
KSL

Historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith. Here's what they learned

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