Because there are no explicitly stated purposes of Joseph Smith's Bible translation project,

either by him or in any of his revelations.

All explanations offered about or criticisms leveled at his Bible translation

are based on assumptions and best guesses at best.

But then of course, there's nothing wrong with educated best

guesses so long as we're not overly dogmatic and we humbly recognize the

tentativeness of our position. The current best evidence from the best

scholarship on the topic proposes that the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible was intended to be and to do several things rather than just one thing.

On today's episode of Church History matters, we'll review these

potential purposes and offer another possibility about what we believe may be

the primary purpose behind Joseph's Bible translation, what we call the

revelatory springboard effect.

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths,

and today we dive into our second episode of this series

dealing with Joseph Smith's non-book of Mormon

translations and revelations. Now let's get into it.

Hello Casey Griffiths. Hello Scott Woodward Woodward, how are you doing?

So good.

Good.

Let me just start with a recap and then Casey you jump in on what we talked about in our last

episode to get everybody caught up here. So last time we talked about Joseph Smith's

Bible translation kind of introduced this idea. It's the next project that the

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