Friday, August 25, 2023

"Joseph Smith's Successor: An Important New Document Comes to Light" (1981) by the Tanners

Today, I came across a booklet published by the Tanners; as it is not available online:

 

Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner, Joseph Smith's Successor: An Important New Document Comes to Light (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1981)

 

What is important about this text, and why I scanned/uploaded it, is that the Tanners accepted the authenticity of the Joseph Smith III blessing, later discovered to be a forgery by Mark Hofmann. It shows that, while Jerald is often celebrated for being skeptical of the Salamander Letter, both he and Sandra accepted this Hofmann forgery.

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