The Joseph Smith Papers Project is tasked with gathering all The Joseph Smith Papers that we can find anywhere in the world

and making them available. To this point, we have published since 2008 six volumes in three different series:

the Journal series, the History series, and the Revelations and Translation series.

And to date, the Revelations of Translation series has been a series focused on the texts, the earliest texts of Mormonism,

the sacred text of the revelations,

and will now be forthcoming

the text of the Book of Mormon translation. Only with the Documents series can one look at the history from the beginning through to the end

on all of the existing surviving Joseph Smith documents. Every Latter-day Saint, every student of Mormonism knows roughly the story of the angel Moroni and the translation and the publication in the Grandin Print Shop in Palmyra.

But as you look at this unfolding document by document,

one gets a very different view of the details of that process

and the challenges of that process and the complexities.

And one does feel at the end of going through that, that you've experienced something totally differently than

the high-level overview we’ve had before.