Now in paperback this corrected text is based on the earliest sources and represents the most accurate and readable edition of the Book of Mormon ever publishedThe product of over two decades of painstaking labor by Royal Skousen . . . this Yale edition aims to take us back to the text Smith envisioned as he translated according to the faithful from golden plates that he unearthed in upstate New York.Stephen Prothero Wall Street JournalWill forever change the way Latter-day Saints approach modern scripture. Two hundred years from now students of the Book of Mormon will still be poring over Skousens work. What he has accomplished is nothing short of phenomenal.Grant Hardy Journal of Book of Mormon Studies First published in 1830 the Book of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Over the past thirty years editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smiths original manuscripts and earliest editions and identified about 2250 textual errors although many of these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying and typesetting the text. The first edition of The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text published in 2009 to critical acclaim contained over 600 corrections that had never before appeared in any standard edition of the Book of Mormon with about 250 of them affecting the texts meaning. This revised second edition issued in paperback i nclud es additional corrections as well as an illuminating new introduction by Royal Skousen. It will provide a portable accessible version of this important text. Read more