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It was published by Deseret Book and is a collection of essays written by various scholars about Joseph Smith, based on the Joseph Smith Papers project. It was described as uplifting and a trusted source for understanding Joseph Smith.
Now the book that John was talking about is, is this book no brother Joseph? This is how what's this project been like? Matt.
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It was published by Deseret Book and is a collection of essays written by various scholars about Joseph Smith, based on the Joseph Smith Papers project. It was described as uplifting and a trusted source for understanding Joseph Smith.
Now the book that John was talking about is, is this book no brother Joseph? This is how what's this project been like? Matt.
Yeah, so that book, so it was just published by Dosa at Book in March and myself, Matt Groau and Eric Smith were all general editors of the Joseph Smith Papers Project and have been for a number of years.
And so we decided that because the Joseph Smith Papers is a project that's really more geared towards scholars than it is towards general church members, we were thinking of ways of how, how can we get some of the findings, some of the discoveries that we've made about Joseph Smith to a larger general public?
And Matt, you didn't come on here to sell books and I didn't even tell you I was going to do this, but the book is no brother Joseph. And I'm telling anyone who is listening, if you truly want to know who Joseph is and unless you have certain conclusions you want about him, right? This is who he is. This book is who he is, who he was.
Well, thank you. I appreciate that and I hope people will get a good depiction of who Joseph was not just that he was a prophet, but that he was a real human being too, that he went through challenges and difficulties and trying to be a father and trying to be a husband and he's doing all this while he's trying to restore the church.