![]() ![]() Some of the chapter titles give away the key ideas: “A passover setting for Lehi’s exodus,” “Lehi’s tabernacle in the wilderness,” “the seven tribes of Lehi,” “The Mosian reform,” “The Book of Benjamin,” etc. The second half, made up of ten chapters, works to reconstruct “the missing stories”–using both clues from our existing Book of Mormon, and quotes from those familiar with the contents of the lost pages. He also dives more deeply into the identity of the thief, acting to exonerate Lucy Harris (the traditional thief) and identifying several other more prime suspects. The first half, constituting five chapters, chronicle the story of the lost pages, telling a familiar story in a novel way: Joseph’s experience getting the plates, translating the “sealed book,” and using the interpreters and seer stones and then the tragic story of the pages lost, rendered all the more tragic (to me) by personal details of Martin Harris’ life and the fact that the “lost 116 pages” was probably closer to 200 or even 300 pages, constituting in length at least a third (and maybe more) of the Book of Mormon we have today. Why was King Benjamin so beloved by his people?ĭespite the likely demise of those pages to the sands of time, the answers to these questions and many more are now available for the first time in nearly two centuries in The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories.ĭon Bradley has done the world, both LDS and non-believer, a tremendous service with this book, which accomplishes two incredible things: first, he’s brought together all of the available data on the nature of the “lost 116 pages” that constituted the original beginning to the Book of Mormon second, he’s offered a wonderful interpretation of that data, piecing together a story of a remarkable beginning to Mormon’s book. How did the Jaredite interpreters come into the hands of the Nephite kings? What message did God write on the temple wall for Aminadi to translate? ![]() How were the first Nephites similar to the very last? Why is Joseph of Egypt emphasized so much in the Book of Mormon? How did Lehi’s family and their descendants live the Law of Moses without the temple and Aaronic priesthood? Where did the brass plates and Laban’s sword come from? ![]() How did Mormon’s abridgment of this period differ from the accounts in Nephi’s small plates? Was the lost manuscript actually 116 pages? In this highly anticipated work, author Don Bradley presents over a decade of historical and scriptural research to not only tell the story of the lost pages but to reconstruct many of the detailed stories written on them. Those pages containing the only copy of the first three months of the Joseph Smith’s translation of the golden plates were forever lost, and the detailed stories they held forgotten over the ensuing years-until now. On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. ![]()
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