Editing Jerald and Sandra Tanner (section)

===Other documents and books===
[[File:LighthouseMinistriesBookstore.jpg|thumb|left|Lighthouse Ministries Bookstore owned by Jerald and Sandra Tanner]]
The Tanners have also published photo-mechanical reproductions of texts such as complete sets of early-LDS periodicals, including ''[[Messenger and Advocate]]'', ''[[Times and Seasons]]'', and the ''[[Millennial Star]]''. Also notable is a reproduction of the 1825 edition of [[Ethan Smith (clergyman)|Ethan Smith]]'s ''[[View of the Hebrews]].'' Their version contains the margin notes made by Elder [[B. H. Roberts]], who compared this text with the ''Book of Mormon'' at the request of an LDS leader. His report was initially kept secret, but it gradually was distributed within Mormon circles and was published posthumously as part of ''A Book of Mormon Study'' (also known as ''[[Studies of the Book of Mormon]]'') and ''A Parallel''. 

The Tanners have published compiled lists of changes to the text of the ''[[Book of Mormon]]'' and other texts used by the LDS church. They argue that the alterations are substantial and that the inconsistencies in the texts are evidence against LDS claims of their being divinely inspired.{{citation needed|date= January 2012}}  This is because of the Tanner's interpretation of Joseph Smith's claim the Book of Mormon was "the most correct book on the face of the Earth… and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."

The best-known publication produced by the Tanners is ''Mormonism: Shadow or Reality?,'' originally published in 1963 as ''Mormonism: A Study of Mormon History and Doctrine'', and reprinted five times since. Dean M. Helland of [[Oral Roberts University]] describes it as "the heavyweight of all books on Mormonism".<ref name= "helland">{{cite thesis |first= Dean M. |last= Helland |title= Meeting the Book of Mormon Challenge in Chile |degree= Ph.D. |publisher= [[Oral Roberts University]] |year= 1990 |page= 58 |url= http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&id=102 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061010032745/http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?id=102&table=review |archive-date= 2006-10-10 }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010032745/http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?id=102&table=review |date=2006-10-10 }} Cited by Matthew Roper of [[Brigham Young University]].</ref> The Tanners question the character and integrity of the [[:Category:Book of Mormon witnesses|witnesses]] to the [[Book of Mormon]]; they discuss the different accounts that Joseph Smith gave of the [[First Vision]].  Their book includes copies of original LDS documents.