Joseph Smith Jr.

This volume contains the original, most accurate version of the revelations to Joseph Smith, the Lectures on Faith, The Book of Abraham, several complete letters written by Joseph Smith (like the Wentworth letter and Liberty Jail letter), and an expanded Joseph Smith History as he originally published it while editor of the Times and Seasons. It also includes some modern material relevant to the Restoration.

The New Testament and The Book of Mormon, published together as Joseph originally intended. The New Testament version used is the “Joseph Smith Translation” and incorporates all changes he made, including punctuation changes. It is the first time all of the changes Joseph Smith made have ever been in print. The Book of Mormon is based on the last version Joseph personally edited in 1840. It also restores some of what was translated, but was changed, edited or omitted by the print versions previously made available. This is the most complete and accurate publication of Joseph's work ever put into print. Because this volume contains the new covenant offered by Christ given to the Jews, then to the Nephites, then to the gentiles, and now again to us, it has been titled “New Covenants.”

The Old Testament version used is the “Joseph Smith Translation” and incorporates all changes he made, including punctuation changes. It is the first time all of the changes Joseph Smith made have ever been in print. Some antiquated words and expressions have also been modernized in this volume, for easier reading and comprehension.

The 1835 Edition of the Doctrine and Covenants

Joseph Smith's first 5 journals

Two manuscript books into which many of Joseph's revelations were copied by scribes

The first Nauvoo journal, and part of the second

Same as facsimile edition, but without photographs of each page of the books

Joseph Smith’s revelations in the form that most early Latter-day Saints read and experienced them

The six personal and church histories written, dictated, or closely supervised by Joseph Smith

Four histories written by church historians by assignment from Joseph Smith

Includes the first three years of what survives of Joseph Smith’s papers.

Contains revelations, correspondence, minutes of meetings in which Joseph Smith participated, and licenses provided to church officers

Contains minutes, revelations, letters, architectural and city plans, priesthood licenses, legal documents, and an effort to classify the scriptures by topic

Journal entries from the last year of Joseph's life

The most complete early text of the Book of Mormon - the printer’s manuscript (part 1)

The most complete early text of the Book of Mormon - the printer’s manuscript (part 2)

Contains minutes, revelations, discourses, administrative records, legal documents, personal letters, and recorded blessings, among other documents

Contains the minutes of Council of Fifty meetings held in Nauvoo, Illinois, from March 1844 through January 1846

Contains revelations, discourses, prayers, legal documents, personal letters, a map, and banknotes, among other documents

Contains personal letters, revelations, discourses, minutes, legal documents, and financial documents, among other documents

Contains personal correspondence, discourses, minutes, a revelation, and a memorial to the United States Congress, among other documents

Includes three sets of documents: (1) the extant fragments of the papyri purchased by Joseph Smith and others in 1835; (2) the documents that collectively compose the “Egyptian-language documents,” which are associated with the attempt by Joseph Smith and his associates to decipher hieroglyphic and hieratic characters from the papyri; and (3) the various manuscripts and first print publication of the Book of Abraham text.

Contains personal correspondence, revelations, discourses, financial documents, meeting minutes, and other documents

A series of seven doctrinal lectures on the subject of faith, first prepared as a course of instruction for the School of the Elders held in the second Kirtland printing office in the winter of 1834–1835

The first issue that Joseph directly supervised as Editor.

A letter written answering a request by newspaper editor, John Wentworth and published in the times and seasons, 1 March, 1842, in Nauvoo, Illinois under the title Church History. Signed by Joseph Smith, Jr., the times and seasons article had these words under his signature, “This paper commences my editorial career, I alone stand responsible for it, and shall do for all papers having my signature henceforward.”

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Times & Seasons, Vol. 3, Issue 11, Page 743. Article written by Joseph Smith Jr.

Joseph Smith, Editor

Times & Seasons, Vol. 3, Issue 12, Page 759. Article written by Joseph Smith Jr.

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Times & Seasons, Vol. 3, Issue 16, Page 823. Article written by Joseph Smith Jr.

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Times & Seasons, Vol. 3, Issue 18, Page 855. Article written by Joseph Smith Jr.

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

Times & Seasons, Vol. 3, Issue 21, Page 903. Article written by Joseph Smith Jr.

A letter from Joseph Smith Jr. written to the Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois, 6 September 1842, read to the saints at the Grove near the Temple, 11 September 1842

Joseph Smith, Editor

Joseph Smith, Editor

The final issue that Joseph directly supervised as Editor.