025 What Do We ACTUALLY Know About the JST?

Church History Matters

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Aside from his Book of Mormon translation project, Joseph Smith engaged in at least three other scripture production projects that we know of. The first was his ambitious Bible translation project we now know as the Joseph Smith Translation, the second was the printing of his own revelations which we now know as the Doctrine and Covenants, and the third was his project of translation which commenced after he acquired papyrus scrolls from Egypt which we now know as the Book of Abraham. Throughout this new series we will consider each of these fascinating projects in turn, including the points of controversy connected with each. In this episode of Church History Matters, we begin our exploration of Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible, or the JST for short. When did it begin? Why didn’t we get this into Latter-day Saint Bibles until 1979? What does the word “translate” mean in this context in light of the fact that Joseph Smith didn’t know Hebrew or Greek during this project? And what are some assumptions Church members often bring to the text of the JST that may not be warranted? For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Aside from his Book of Mormon Translation Project, Joseph Smith engaged in at least three other scripture production projects that we know of.
0:13.5	The first was his ambitious Bible translation project we now know as the Joseph Smith translation.
0:19.3	The second was the printing of his own revelations which we now know as the doctrine and
0:23.3	covenants and the third was his project of translation which commenced after
0:27.4	he acquired papyrus scrolls from Egypt which culminated in what we now know as
0:32.0	the book of Abraham.
0:33.0	Today begins a new series in which we will consider each of these fascinating projects in turn,
0:39.0	including the points of controversy connected with each.
0:42.0	In this first episode, we begin our
0:44.8	exploration of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible, or the JST for short.
0:49.9	When did it begin? Why didn't we get this into Latter-day Saint Bibles
0:53.6	until 1979?
0:55.4	What does the word translate mean in this context,
0:58.3	in light of the fact that Joseph Smith didn't
1:00.2	know Hebrew or Greek during this project.
1:03.2	And what are some common assumptions church members often bring to the text of the
1:06.8	JST that may not be warranted?
1:09.7	I'm Scott Woodward, a managing director at Scripture Central, and my co-host is Casey Griffiths, also a managing director at Scripture Central.
1:17.5	And today Casey and I dive into our first episode in this series dealing with Joseph Smith's translations and revelations.
1:25.0	Now let's get into it. Well, hello Scott. Hi Casey. How are we doing? Good. Here we go. Here we go.
1:41.0	Yes, starting a new series and we're going to call this series. We're going to call this series what we're calling this
1:45.8	Revelations and translations or translations and revelations and revelations something like that.
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