One of the strongest historical evidences for the reality of the Book of Mormon is the testimony of its witnesses. From a legal standpoint, these testimonies meet several core standards used to evaluate credible eyewitness accounts: competence, opportunity to observe, consistency over time, and persistence under personal loss and threat. The witnesses were named, known, … Read more
Almost immediately after the Church was organized in the spring of 1830, Joseph began his “Bible Translation.” Like the Book of Mormon translation, this was not a translation in the typical sense we think of today. Joseph did not know ancient Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, and he likely did not even have any physical manuscripts … Read more
Royal Skousen was a professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University and the longtime editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. He spent decades examining the original manuscript and the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon, working directly from the earliest surviving textual evidence rather than later recollections or theological assumptions. … Read more