Royal Skousen is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, where he taught for 41 years. He is the author of numerous books on linguistic theory and on the Book of Mormon text. He lives in Spanish Fork, UT.

"The product of over two decades of painstaking labor by Royal Skousen—a Brigham Young University professor of linguistics and English language, a Mormon and an occasional spelling-bee judge—this Yale edition aims to take us back to the text Smith envisioned as he translated, according to the faithful, from golden plates that he unearthed in upstate New York."—Stephen Prothero, Wall Street JournalListed as one of the "Christmas gifts for your demanding scholar" in 2009, Mormon Times Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Religion category"Royal Skousen has single-handedly brought the textual analysis of the Book of Mormon to a professional level on par with the finest classical and biblical scholarship. This volume is the culmination of his labors, and it is the most textually significant edition since Joseph Smith’s work was first published in 1830.  It takes us back to the original manuscript (as best we can reconstruct it) and sometimes beyond, to the very words that were first spoken by Joseph Smith to his scribes."—Grant Hardy, from the Introduction

Royal Skousen is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, where he taught for 41 years. He is the author of numerous books on linguistic theory and on the Book of Mormon text. He lives in Spanish Fork, UT.

"The product of over two decades of painstaking labor by Royal Skousen—a Brigham Young University professor of linguistics and English language, a Mormon and an occasional spelling-bee judge—this Yale edition aims to take us back to the text Smith envisioned as he translated, according to the faithful, from golden plates that he unearthed in upstate New York."—Stephen Prothero, Wall Street JournalListed as one of the "Christmas gifts for your demanding scholar" in 2009, Mormon Times Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Religion category"Royal Skousen has single-handedly brought the textual analysis of the Book of Mormon to a professional level on par with the finest classical and biblical scholarship. This volume is the culmination of his labors, and it is the most textually significant edition since Joseph Smith’s work was first published in 1830.  It takes us back to the original manuscript (as best we can reconstruct it) and sometimes beyond, to the very words that were first spoken by Joseph Smith to his scribes."—Grant Hardy, from the Introduction

Royal Skousen is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, where he taught for 41 years. He is the author of numerous books on linguistic theory and on the Book of Mormon text. He lives in Spanish Fork, UT.

"The product of over two decades of painstaking labor by Royal Skousen—a Brigham Young University professor of linguistics and English language, a Mormon and an occasional spelling-bee judge—this Yale edition aims to take us back to the text Smith envisioned as he translated, according to the faithful, from golden plates that he unearthed in upstate New York."—Stephen Prothero, Wall Street JournalListed as one of the "Christmas gifts for your demanding scholar" in 2009, Mormon Times Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 in the Religion category"Royal Skousen has single-handedly brought the textual analysis of the Book of Mormon to a professional level on par with the finest classical and biblical scholarship. This volume is the culmination of his labors, and it is the most textually significant edition since Joseph Smith’s work was first published in 1830.  It takes us back to the original manuscript (as best we can reconstruct it) and sometimes beyond, to the very words that were first spoken by Joseph Smith to his scribes."—Grant Hardy, from the Introduction