In his new book, “Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates: A Cultural History,” historian Richard Bushman calls the Book of Mormon, the signature scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a ...

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Historian Bushman (Joseph Smith) offers a meticulous study of the gold plates that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, reported discovering near his home in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1823. Bushman ...

The gold plates imaginary -- Translator : Joseph Smith, 1823-1829 -- Making scripture : The Book of Mormon -- Presence : family and friends, 1827-1830 -- Rationalism : apologists, critics, and ...