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Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith is a 1945 book by Fawn M. Brodie that was one of the first significant non-hagiographic biographies of Joseph Smith, the progenitor of the Latter Day Saint movement. No Man Knows My History was influential in the development of Mormon history as a scholarly field.
The life of Joseph Smith, Jr. from 1831 to 1837, when he was 26–32 years old, covers the period of time from when Smith moved with his family to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831, until he left Ohio for Missouri early in early January 1838.
Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later.
Smith's sons Joseph III and David were too young: Joseph was aged 11, and David was born after Smith's death. [14] The Council of Fifty had a theoretical claim to succession, but it was a secret organization. [b] Two of Smith's chosen successors, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, had already left the church. [15]
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Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef [1] (יוֹסֵף ). "Joseph" is used, [ 2 ] along with " Josef ", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries .
A man who confessed to killing his parents and two of their friends and wounding three people in a highway shooting pleaded guilty to murder and other charges on Monday, and a judge sentenced him ...