Joseph Smith's Translations of Ancient Records

This is one of the several instances in which the book of Mormon, which represents itself as an ancient text, is nevertheless very responsive to Joseph Smith's immediate environment. So all right, let's go ahead and jump to the next slide, which is Joseph Smith then rewrites the Anton visit in 1838. And so I don't know, do you want to read this, Nemo, just to give this a nice comparison to the earlier account? R.F.M. says he would say that if anyone has a problem with honestly confronting what are supposed to be ancient records, it's not scholars; it's Joseph Smith who has the translation problem.