Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:

The Joseph Smith Papers Project Stumbles

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
8/22/2019
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
16 pages Saddle-stitched
Category:
Religion
Tags:
book of abraham, Book Review, church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, Joseph Smith Papers, lds, Mormonism

Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts, eds. Robin Scott Jensen and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2018), 381 pages.

Abstract: Volume 4 of the Revelations and Translations series of the Joseph Smith Papers does not live up to the standards set in previous volumes. While the production values are still top notch, the actual content is substandard. Errors fill the volume, including upside-down photographs and numerous transcription errors beyond the more than two hundred places where the editors admitted they could not read the documents. For this particular volume, producing it incorrectly is arguably worse than not producing it at all.

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