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LDS Church announces new Historian's Press
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"Some of the 'Papers' will include high-definition photos of original documents and a side-by-side typed script. Others will simply have a typed script."
Why not include photos of ALL the documents?
You can bet there will be quite a bit of "editing" going on.
Not everything that is true is faith promoting.
Pathetic. Why even bother with this excerise?
"[The endorsement by the Records Commission] conveys the commission's conclusion that the staff and procedures of the Joseph Smith Papers meet the NHPRC's rigorous scholarly standards for transcription and annotation and that the edition will be accurate and professional."
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission will be reviewing the transcription and annotation. I would expect them to rescind their endorsement if there were "quite a bit of editing going on."
There are many practical reasons not to just include photos of all the documents. The primary being you can fit a lot more into a book if you use a typed version, especially if you want the pictures to be at a resolution that is legible. Secondly, the hand writing may be hard to read and smeared and faded due to age. To be able to make it readable in a book you would have to do a lot of work on the photo to make it clear enough to read.
And of course there will be some editing. But that is not necessarily bad. People didn't have computers were they could go back and edit thing easily. Also, if you have done any sort of research you know words on a paper with no context are of little worth. And obviously, the Church will try to put papers in a context that is the most favorable. But that by no means makes this pathetic.
If I understand correctly, the Church and Deseret Book have long shared the Church's printing facilities, but even there I'll bet that Deseret Book often goes elsewhere (to one of the many commercial printers) when their plans for a particular book make it necessary.
Talk about pathetic...
Now, if you're talking aboout a bindery for sewn books, the Church does own Deseret Book, last I checked.
Matt: does it even matter what we publish to you? Would you bother reading it when published?
Nevertheless, as stated, we as a Church are commnded to publish, and so we shall obey the commands of the Lord and His Father.
Please specify which you mean, and provide verifiable evidence. If you can't produce solid evidence from a reliable source for what you claim, then it's hypocritical to criticize the Church's scholarship.
Not sure what your information sources are. Please provide details. Images of the papers are already out there but not with historical context. Why would we assume that Elder Jensen would have the manuscripts edited?
On the claim that this is going to involve editing, well, I am not sure such people would believe it even if there were holograph papers of every page. The Jornal of Wilford Woodruff only contained images of a few pages, but most people do who think about that project do not think that Signature Books engaged in major editing of it.
years.
The problem is that only non-Mormons have been reading them.
While printing all their history
I hope they don't start printing up those
$3 dollar bills again.
Although Bushman tries to invoke historical skepticism to obscure the definitive nature of his points, it comes through loud and clear that Joseph Smith Jr. SECRETLY practiced "polygamy" for 10 to 12 years.
If it is of God, it does not need to be hidden. God has nothing to hide, and neither should his servants. Jesus said so, "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God" (John3:20-21)
The more the Church hides its history and its doings, the more they testify against themselves that they are NOT of God.
Did you not attend seminary? Or did you sleep through it? I'm always astounded when people are shocked to hear that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy or that it was done in secret. Come on. It's pretty common knowledge that polygamy wasn't practiced out in the open until Brigham Young. How else could the RLDS (Community of Christ) get away with claiming that Joseph Smith never practiced polygamy?
It is sad that the church will pick and chose what to print. Instead of printing everything.
It is not the current church that is censoring, it is the church from over a hundred years ago that probably decided to burn all "controversial documents".
P.S.- If God can keep things a "profound secret" or "cautiously concealed" then I guess it is okay for His servants too also, despite what your arrogance and ignorance tell you!
This may be the start of doing the right thing. Didn't the church call the PBS broadcast on the Mormons this last year a "Welcome Change". Hasn't our church suffered enough with it's well deserved reputation of white washing it's history.
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