The authoritative source for the writings, teachings, and records of Joseph Smith. The Joseph Smith Papers project is a collection of all known Joseph Smith documents, accompanied with historical introductions and footnotes for each document, providing necessary context for the. Everything will be on the website, but due to contracts with Deseret Book, some of the volumes are still waiting to be added until 18 months after they are published, Godfrey said.”-” Church of Jesus Christ set to publish last of 27 volumes compiling Joseph Smith’s written records.” After about 30 years, the department decided to consider a more comprehensive work.” “Most of the documents from the project are available online on ‘The Joseph Smith Papers’ website, including some that are not available in the printed edition. He said the historians would start by verifying transcriptions of sources, and then they would do research to write an introduction to the document explaining what was going on at the time and why the document was created.” “Although the official project began in 2001, Godfrey said the effort to gather documents associated with Joseph Smith began in the 1960s when an archivist with the Church History Department named Dean Jessee began compiling and publishing editions of the prophet’s personal writings. Since 2013, he managed the 15 historians working on the project. 'The Joseph Smith Papers' project, which began in 2001, is a complete collection of all of the church founder's surviving papers, including letters, documents he signed, journal entries and. Volume 15 of 'The Joseph Smith Papers' is scheduled to be published next week, and Godfrey said it covers the last six weeks of the life of the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day. He previously worked for the federal government using his American history degree for legal research but saw a job listing for work on “The Joseph Smith Papers” and applied, because he had always wanted to work for the church. Godfrey began working on the project in 2010. Godfrey said in terms of resources and time, this is the biggest project ever pulled together by the Church History Department, and hundreds of people contributed. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Church leaders, historians and guests celebrated the final volume of the Joseph Smith Papers, published on the anniversary of Joseph and Hyrum Smith’s martyrdom. “The project began in 2001, and is a complete compilation of all of Joseph Smith’s surviving papers, including letters, documents he signed, journal entries, and revelations.
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