The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things

by Robert L. Millet and Monte S. Nyman

Book Overview

12th volume in the Religious Studies Monograph Series. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884949761
• ISBN13: 9780884949763
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very well done papers on the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible from a 1984 Symposium

This is a collection of papers from a symposium held at BYU in November of 1984. They focus on the value of the then new edition of the LDS scriptures and the value of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible for Latter-day Saints. There first paper is by Elder Bruce R. McConkie on "The Doctrinal Restoration". He discusses the need for a restoration, what it is that needs to be restored, how it is being restored, and what we need to do to participate in the restoration. The various papers discuss aspects of the Joseph Smith Translation in the Old and New Testaments and are all quite interesting. However, I particularly liked Robert Cloward's paper on the Sermon on the Mount. He compares the differences in the Sermon in the JST and the Book of Mormon with the standard King James Bible and demonstrates what is clarified and why these are significant. Once you read these papers, it will become even more clear why the JST is important and you will find yourself reading the footnoted passages and those longer passages in the back even more closely and with more understanding. At least that is what I have experienced.