Q&R! Tough JST Questions with Kent Jackson
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2024
- Did Joseph Smith ever consider his Bible translation work finished? Will the JST ever be canonized and replace the King James Version as the official Latter-day Saint Bible? Why haven’t any other of our prophets since Joseph Smith engaged in similar translation work? How can we reconcile Joseph Smith’s Bible revision work with Deuteronomy 4:2 and Revelation 22:19, which actually warn against adding to the Bible? Is there any evidence whatsoever that Joseph Smith consulted any outside sources in his Bible translation work? Does the fact that Joseph Smith’s Bible translation started out with massive amounts of new and significant revealed text and then tapered off at the end with only minor revisions support the narrative that Joseph became a fallen prophet? If not, how else can we make sense of this timeline? In today’s episode of Church History Matters, we dive into all of these questions and more with Dr. Kent Jackson, a premier scholar on Joseph Smith’s Bible translation.
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Originally published September 12, 2023
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It really would be wonderful to have a new Latter-day Saint bible with the JST woven in, maybe in blue type? So much value in this episode!
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OR content that is missing from the Old Testament, like the mentioning of Christ, taken out during the Josiah reforms, etc.
I remain convinced that more of the Bible needs to be gone over by a seer like Joseph. The Gentile world was given only what it could “bear” (John 16:12-13) by Joseph. So our JST is not a completed inspired revision of the Bible.
I am aware of a seeming problem in the JST. KJV Genesis 5:32 does not give Noah's exact age when his three sons are born. But says Noah was 500. JST Genesis 7:85 gives the exact age of Noah at the birth of Shem as 450+42=492. JST Genesis 8:33 says Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood. JST Genesis 11:8 says that Shem was 100 when Arphaxad was born two years after the flood. This does not add up. Because if Noah was 492 when Shem was born, then he would only be 592 when Shem was 100 and would have only been 590 at the time of the flood. And if Noah was 600 at the time of the flood then Arphaxad would have been born 8 years before the flood.