![]() I loved reading about and seeing the documents (copies of some original documents are included). It's wonderful to be able to study and understand more of these people and their work and the Lord's work through them. ![]() Obviously there are holes, but there is so much information here. There are also unpublished letters and other documents and revelations included here. It helps me understand the setting and context so much better and the process and order of events in the restoration. Many of these are revelations we now have recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants, but there is much more information included about the history and circumstances and context surrounding each and careful source citations. This is a REMARKABLE book and set of books and project! I am inspired and uplifted and amazed at the vast history and work to preserve and piece it together! This one volume is a collection of every document of Joseph Smith's from July 1828 to June 1831. This book allows the reader not only to study Joseph Smith but also to gain a greater understanding of his followers and the millenarian movement they participated in during the Second Great Awakening. They offer glimpses into the religious leader s thoughts, concerns, and initiatives in a crucial early period of the religious movement he started. These texts provide the earliest textual insights into Joseph Smith and the founding of what was then called the Church of Christ. In addition, several documents in this volume trace the process of translating and printing the Book of Mormon, as well as early efforts to evangelize using the book and its message. Among the contents of this volume are more than five dozen revelations that were presented in the first-person voice of Jesus Christ, including texts later published in the Doctrine and Covenants, the expansive visions of Moses (now found in the Pearl of Great Price), and revelations never canonized. This first volume of the Documents series consists of documents written from July 1828 to June 1831. Also found in the series are articles and editorials he wrote for newspapers, minutes of meetings in which he participated, and records of his ecclesiastical administration. When complete, the Documents series will publish more than a thousand documents created, authorized, or owned by Joseph Smith, including each of his revelations in its earliest form, reports of his discourses, and correspondence. This volume marks the beginning of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers.
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