Gerrit J. Dirkmaat
Gerrit J. Dirkmaat is Professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. He served as a historian and coeditor for several volumes of the Joseph Smith
Papers and for The Brigham Young Journals, vol. 1: April 1832–February 1846 and is a
coauthor of From Darkness Unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the
Book of Mormon.
BYU Studies Publications
- “There Is Law”: Joseph Smith’s Use of Arbitration to Protect the Book of Mormon(2025)
- Minutes of the Afternoon Meeting of the Council of Fifty, April 11, 1844
- The Prophets Have Spoken, but What Did They Say?: Examining the Differences between George D. Watt’s Original Shorthand Notes and the Sermons Published in the Journal of Discourses