"It will be interesting to see how the papers are edited. If it is "everything of a written nature Joseph Smith generated, or over which he had oversight," it doesn't seem that the words of Brigham Young and suceeding prophets will be included, at least not at first.
Ping
They sure are!!
I wonder if they will publish the definitive book on Mountain Meadows Massacre to be written by Church Historian Richard Turley. It was promised to be published in 2002.....here we are four years later, waiting....waiting.
IMO...most rank and file mormon's have no clue of his words...
And LDS, Inc. doesn't want his words widely spread.............
Might hurt the bottom line.....
Samples I saw today were left side of the page was scans of Joseph Smith's hand written texts (cursive) and right side of the page was type faced.
The type faced side even had notes like "this section was crossed out indicating that it wasn't to be published" and the hand written side showed the crossed out section so it could still be read.
The only "editing" I really saw was something basically saying we think this says such and such but the penmanship is hard to read. But as before the left side still showed that section so the reader could make their own judgment.
Comprising up to thirty volumes?
The New Testament is only comprised of twenty-five books, with relatively few words actually spoken by Christ.
It appears to me that Smith always had an inferiority complex and believed that the greater in size that his written works were, the more emphasis they would receive. Thirty books of direct translation do NOT shed greater light upon his faith system. That requires never-ending prophecy by one president of this church after another.
If Smith was alive today I would think he would be disappointed that his faith system has such a meager following.