Gerrit Dirkmaat is an associate professor of Church History and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He has worked as a writer and historian for the church history department, working on the Joseph Smith Papers. In addition to his work for BYU and on various journals and academic boards, Gerrit hosts a church history podcast called “Standard of Truth,”
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Gerrit Dirkmaat and Michael Hubbard McKay authored “From Darkness Unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Transalation and Publication of the Book of Mormon”.
Gerrit is well versed in The Council of Fifty; minutes from these meetings are included in The Joseph Smith Papers.
Volume I of The Brigham Young Journals is now available.
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