I recently wrote a review of The Book of Joseph. Interestingly, someone online wrote a book called the Missaticum Biblia and included The Book of Joseph as chapters 3 to 14 of that book.

The Missaticum Biblia begins by introducing us to a seraph named Nakash who was given authority over the earth before man.

In 1835, Egyptian papyri came into Joseph Smith’s possession. He translated one of them into the Book of Abraham. He identified another as the Book of Joseph, but died before he could translate it.

A text called The Book of Joseph appeared on the internet at some point. I haven’t been able to track down when it first appeared or who might have written it. My internet searching indicates it first appeared around the year 2000, although I have a dim recollection of it appearing earlier than this on Usenet. There’s endnotes provided by an Elder Todd J. Jumper, but I can’t find anything about him either.

In this volume, Faulring compiles most of Joseph Smith’s diaries and journals. This is missing most of the Book of the Law of the Lord since the LDS church was still keeping it secret at the time this book was written.

While Joseph Smith wrote some of this himself, most of the time he had various scribes write for him. I guess he didn’t like writing. It was no doubt more of a chore to write back then.

There’s a lot of gaps and jumping forward in time. Smith refers to some things without explaining them, so it’s better to already be familiar with his history to make sense of several passages.

The full title of this book written by James C. Brewster is “The Words of Righteousness to All Men, Written from One of the Books of Esaras, [Esdras] Which Was Written by the Five Ready Writers, In Forty Days, Which Was Spoken of by Esaras, in His Second Book, Fourteenth Chapter of the Apocrypha, Being one of the Books Which Was Lost, and Has Now Come Forth, by the Gift of God, In the Last Days”.

At the age of 10, Brewster claimed to have been visited by the same Angel Moroni who had visited Joseph Smith. He was disfellowshipped from the mainstream Mormon church a year later. In the Preface, he claims to have begun writing this book in 1838 when he would have been about 12. This book was published in 1842 when he was about 16, which is quite impressive (although Joseph Smith wasn’t impressed). When Smith died two years later, Brewster began to accumulate followers and cofounded the Church of Christ (known as the Brewsterites) four years after that.

Acts of the Three Nephites

Chapter 1

This story will seem like a fable unless God lets you know its mysteries (verse 1). Those who accept these records will be able to understand the scripture that’s already been revealed. Those who don’t, will forgot what they learned from previous scriptures (verse 5). This record won’t be easy to understand. Past, present, and future will be entangled so only those will faith will understand it (verse 6). (You can say that again.)

Joseph Smith Jr. claimed the golden plates which he used to translate the Book of Mormon had a sealed portion which would be revealed later. Maurício Artur Berger claims to have translated the sealed portion in his 2019 book, The Sealed Book of Mormon. I found a website which claims he was able to translate the Sealed Book into English even though he doesn’t speak English. Another website claimed he predicted Covid and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in detail before they happened, although the website didn’t provide any proof of this.