The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Part 1: Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 1-Alma 35 - Hardcover

Royal Skousen; Robin Scott Jensen

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9781629720609: The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Part 1: Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 1-Alma 35

Synopsis

Now, one of the earliest Book of Mormon texts is available in full color. Winner of the Mormon History Association's Best Documentary Editing/Bibliography Award, 2016.

Joseph Smith and his associates created two manuscripts of the Book of Mormon. The original manuscript was created while the text of the Book of Mormon was actually being dictated. Only roughly 30 percent of this original manuscript survives as a result of extensive water damage. The printer's manuscript, which is almost entirely complete, is a copy of the original that was created to facilitate the publication of the first edition of the Book of Mormon.

This volume is a facsimile edition of the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon. The manuscript is presented here with full-color photographs of each page and color-coded transcripts that show which revisions were made by which scribe. This book gives readers unprecedented access to this early text of the Book of Mormon.

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About the Author

Royal Skousen is a professor of linguistics and English language at Brigham Young University and editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Skousen received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972. Robin Scott Jensen is associate managing historian and project archivist of the Joseph Smith Papers, and he coedited the first two volumes in the Revelations and Translations series. Jensen holds two MA degrees (American history and library information science) and is currently pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Utah.

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