The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural WivesReview of (1997), by Todd M. Comptondoi:10.2307/44792791Richard Lloyd AndersonScott H. Faulring
Joseph Smith, Jr. was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, colloquially known as the Mormon Church. Smith was believed by his followers to have seen God and Christ in a vision and translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates given him by an angel....
* I know that Joseph Smith had over thirty relationships with women that are called “wives” by the church. That a majority were non-consensual, which is admitted to by the church. That He lied to his wife, and that the church lied to me and my family about this for generations ...
My husband referred me to Todd Compton’s amazing work,In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. And of course, we purchased and read Richard Bushman’s master work regarding Joseph Smith,Rough Stone Rollingwhen it came out a few years ago. We visited Nauvoo, where I was abl...
English serial killer, George Joseph Smith, came to be known as the Brides’ Bath Murderer after he drowned three of his wives in a bathtub in order to get their will or insurance money. Smith’s childhood was a troubled one. He had spent time in a boys
From the cover: "Millions of people around the world know of him. Yet this frontier prophet of the early 1800's found little honor and eventual martyrdom at the hands of an angry mob in his own country. Who was this Joseph Smith and what was it about his remarkable life story, which ...
[a]Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because...
And Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them, and the land becometh Pharaoh's;Smith's Literal TranslationAnd Joseph will buy all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold each hi...
And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors. ...
4084. In the first and only issue of the Nauvoo Expositor, William Law and others claimed in Resolution 2 (p. 2, col. 3) that Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith and others taught “false and damnable doctrines…such as plurality of Gods above the God of this universe…the plurality of wives, ...