Conference Talks: How We Got the Joseph Smith Translation, the Book of Moses, and Joseph Smith—Matthew

Kent P. Jackson spoke at the 2021 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, April 24, 2021.

Many Latter-day Saints are unaware of the origin of “Selections from the Book of Moses,” one of the books in the Pearl of Great Price. In short, it consists of the beginning pages of the book of Genesis in Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible, containing the account of some visions of Moses followed by the Prophet’s translation of Genesis 1:1–6:13. This paper introduces the Joseph Smith Translation and tells how this selection from Genesis made its way into the standard works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

All of the conference presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. Videos, audio recordings and transcripts are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2021-book-of-moses-conference/videos/. The videos are also available on the Interpreter Foundation YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/theinterpreterfoundation. A YouTube playlist is available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMn4gyXMWLtulXZ-y4mAph138aNdAWlw.

Presented at:

2021 Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference
Saturday April 24, 2021
https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2021-book-of-moses-conference/

Conference Proceedings:

Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volumes I and II at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ancient-threads-in-the-book-of-moses/

Listen to an audio recording of this talk:

https://cdn.interpreterfoundation.org/ifaudio/2021-book-of-moses-conference-jackson.mp3

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