Michael Hubbard MacKay

MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY is an associate professor of religion in the Department of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University and a former historian for the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He is the author of several books including, Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2020). He is the co-editor of Producing Ancient Scripture (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020).

The Secular Binary of Joseph Smith’s Translations

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 3

Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 1–40
The debate about Joseph Smith’s translations have primarily assumed that the translation was commensurable and focuses upon theories of authorial involvement of Joseph Smith.