Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Article Title
Keywords
Book of Mormon, publication, bible
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Between 1828 and 1831, the American Bible Society launched an aggressive campaign to put a copy of the Old and New Testament in every American home. During those three years, over 500,000 copies of “the Good Book” were printed and distributed across the country, illustrating just how much Protestant Americans considered themselves to be a God-fearing and Bible-believing people. At the same time of the American Bible Society’s ambitious initiative, a young man named Joseph Smith from upstate New York was translating and printing an additional sacred book of scripture, eventually published as the Book of Mormon.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Christofferson, D. T. "“ America Reads” and the Book of Mormon." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 18, no. 2 (2017): 1-13. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol18/iss2/2