The Critical Text Project

  • Vol 0. The Earliest Text (2009) (google books) and Articleskousen summarizes kinds of changes from O, JS received text word for word, later JS revisions not revealed but maybe confirmed
    Skousen Google Book (The BoM: the earliest text).
  • Vol 1. The Original Manuscript (2001). We have OM for
    1 N 2:2 – 13:35; 14:11-end
    2 N 1:0-1:30; 4:32-9:42; 23:0-25:28; 33:4-end
    Jacob 1:0-4:14; 5:46-end
    Enos 1:0-1:14
    Alma 10:31-11:46; 12:18-13:16; 19:3-20:22; 22:22-60:22; 61:11 – Helaman 3:21
    Helaman 13:36-end
    (1830 Helaman 13-end of BoM was printed from OM)
    3 N 1:0-4:2; 19:26-21:11; 26:4-27:7
    Ether 3:9-15:17
  • Vol 2. The Printer’s Manuscript (2001, 2 parts; =JSP Rev and Trans, Vol 3, 2015).
  • Vol 3. The History of the Text (2016, 4 parts; Skousen and Carmack). See Skousen’s overview in his 2020 “The History of the Book of Mormon Text.”
    • Parts 1-2, 2016. Grammatical Variation
    • Parts 3-4, 2018. The Nature of the Original Language
    • Part 5, 2019. The King James Quotations and in the Book of Mormon
    • Part 6, 2020. Spelling in the Manuscripts and Editions
    • Part 7, ___ Transmission of the Text: From the Manuscripts Through the Editions (the Witnesses)
    • Part 8, ___. Textual Criticism of the Book of Mormon
  • Vol 4. Analysis of Textual Variants
    • Part 1, with Introduction, Title Page, 1 Nephi 1…
    • Part 2, beginning 2 Nephi 11.
    • Part 3, beginning Mosiah 17.
    • Part 4, beginning Alma 21.
    • Part 5, beginning Alma 56
    • Part 6, beginning 3 Nephi 19.
  • Vol 5 A Complete Electronic Collation of the Book of Mormon (in progress)
  • Skousen CRITICAL TEXT PROJECT Summary