when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Joseph Smith Translation of Psalm 14 ... historian and the author of “The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet ... Oliver Cowdery, who had taken down the dictation of much of The Book of Mormon, accused Smith of adultery. When told he should practice ...