George D. Smith

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967)57.
here are eleven documents. In addition, there is a letter of presentation from the family of Joseph Smith. The documents in question are fragments of funerary papyri; that is, fragments of long scrolls containing texts intended for the benefit of the deceased and placed in the dead man’s tomb.

Opposition in All Things: A State of Siege a film by Constantin Costa-Gavras

Moral Tales for Our Times: Chloe in the Afternoon a film by Eric Rohmer

The Negro Doctrine — An Afterview

Isaiah Updated

Dialogue 16.2 (Summer 1983): 39–45
This paper examines Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied to them thousands of years later.

“Is There Any Way to Escape These Difficulties?”: The Book of Mormon Studies of B.H. Roberts

Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105
In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts fam￾ily gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young Uni￾versity. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be pub￾lished this year by the University of Illinois Press.4

Humanity or Divinity?: The Last Temptation of Christ a film by Martin Scorsese

Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72
Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.

Editing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History

Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

George Smith Responds