A Recently Recovered Source: Rethinking Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation

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A Recently Recovered Source: Rethinking Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation
MARCH 16, 2017
Haley Wilson and Thomas Wayment, Ancient Scripture

The following are a few key passages from the article we wrote together. When we first started the project our goal was the following: to compare the changes made by Joseph Smith to the Bible with contemporary commentaries of his day. In so doing I hope to tentatively reconstruct the 19th-century academic Christian world in which he brought forth his Bible translation.

Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible has attracted significant attention in recent decades, drawing the interest of a wide variety of academics and those who affirm its nearly canonical status in the LDS scriptural canon. More recently, in conducting new research into the origins of Smith’s Bible translation, we uncovered evidence that Smith and his associates used a readily available Bible commentary while compiling a new Bible translation, or more properly a revision of the King James Bible. The commentary, Adam Clarke’s famous Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, was a mainstay for Methodist theologians and biblical scholars alike and was one of the most widely available commentaries in the…