The Lost Gems of Genesis Paperback – November 1, 2025

The Bible is the most important book in the world, and the most important book of the Bible is Genesis. So when an uneducated farm-hand in backwoods Pennsylvania purported to receive revelations from God rewriting the Genesis story, he was touching a nerve. Long after Joseph Smith Jr.’s Bible-loving neighbors had murdered him, few of his critics ever paid any mind to these alleged gems of Genesis.But also overlooked was the steady creep of new archaeological discoveries that trickled into museums and libraries in subsequent centuries. Unbeknownst to the world is how impossibly these new texts illuminate the stories of Genesis in precisely the ways Joseph Smith claimed. Today, using philology and paleography, independent researcher Jonah Barnes has harmonized these texts against the Genesis revelations of Joseph Smith Jr. Together they illuminate the answers to questions like: - Who the heck are the Giants mentioned in Genesis 6? - Why did God flush the entire human race down with the Great Flood? What specifically were they doing that was so wicked? - How could God command the slaughter of the Canaanites? - What’s the straight story on the mysterious prophet Enoch? - What really happened to Isaac on Mount Moriah? (Hint: not what you think) - Is the Book of Abraham authentically ancient or is it a fraud? - Why is Jacob the Captain America of the Bible? - Have the lost 116 pages been right under our noses all along? Anything but boring, The Lost Gems of Genesis will illuminate how Joseph Smith Jr. filled the biggest gaps in the most important book in the world. This book will show that the genuine Genesis is crucial to understanding the rest of the Bible and that it was originally centered around the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. After reading Gems, you’ll never look at the Bible the same way again. Read more