058: Seer Stones and Treasure Digging

Critics cite The Church as intentionally creating a simple sanitized view of the Translation of the Book of Mormon. But what really happened? Here is my personal take on the Translation process and what I think is a very good shot at the real storyline. Did the Church intentionally hide information? What are we to make of Joseph’s “Treasure Digging”? We discuss this and much much more.

Resources
http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=7&num=1&id=167

http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/transcripts/?id=13

http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-spectacles-the-stone-the-hat-and-the-book-a-twenty-first-century-believers-view-of-the-book-of-mormon-translation/

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon/Translation/Method < —— witness accounts