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- Question: Was the Joseph Smith Translation intended to be a restoration of original Bible text?
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts?
- Source:Matthews:Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible:does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible ever completed?
- Question: What is the nature of the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)?
- Question: What is the relationship between the JST and biblical manuscripts?
- Question: What was the translation procedure used by Joseph Smith and his scribes to produce the JST?
- Question: Did Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary significanly influence the JST?
- Question: What is the Adam Clarke Commentary and what do critics of Mormonism claim about it as it regards the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible?
- Question: Was the JST ever completed?
- Question: Why does the Church continue to use the KJV instead of the JST as its official bible?
- Question: Why does the JST translation of Genesis (the Pearl of Great Price's Book of Moses) contain New Testament language?
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon match the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible so closely?
- Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible?
- Question: Do academic translators copy translations of other documents to use as a "base text"?
- Question: If the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) is Joseph Smith's 'correction' of Biblical errors, why do these corrections not match known Biblical manuscripts?
- Question: How do we explain multiple "Isaiahs" and the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith ignorantly include an error from the Bible into the Book of Mormon when including the Lord's Prayer in 3 Nephit 13:13?
- Question: When Joseph performed his inspired translation of the Bible, why didn't he rewrite the creation account in Genesis to read more like that in the Book of Abraham?