Author Description

Introduction / Mark Ashurst-mcgee, Robin Scott Jensen, And Sharalyn D. Howcroft -- The Gold Plates As Foundational Text / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Textual Criticism And The Book Of Mormon / Grant Hardy -- Intertextuality And The Purpose Of Joseph Smith's New Translation Of The Bible / Thomas A. Wayment -- The Dictation, Compilation, And Canonization Of Joseph Smith's Revelations / Grant Underwood -- Joseph Smith's Missouri Prison Letters And The Mormon Textual Community / David W. Grua -- The Textual Culture Of The Nauvoo Female Relief Society Leadership And Minute Book / Jennifer Reeder -- Joseph Smith's Preaching And The Early Mormon Documentary Record / William V. Smith -- Joseph Smith's Nauvoo Journals / Alex D. Smith And Andrew H. Hedges -- The Early Diaries Of Wilford Woodruff, 1835-1839 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- A Textual And Archival Reexamination Of Lucy Mack Smith's History / Sharalyn D. Howcroft -- The Image As Text And Context In Early Mormon History / Jeffrey G. Cannon -- Joseph Smith And The Conspicuous Absence Of Early Mormon Documentation / Ronald O. Barney. Edited By Mark Ashurst-mcgee, Robin Scott Jensen, Sharalyn D. Howcroft. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.