https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/01 ... -use-seer/SLTrib wrote: In a forthcoming book, titled “By Means of the Urim and Thummim: Restoring Translation to the Restoration,” authors James Lucas and Jonathan Neville argue that the evidence for the seer stone is “inconsistent and unreliable.” Instead, they believe the traditional theory that Smith used “interpreters” called the urim and thummim, which the first Latter-day Saint prophet described as “two transparent stones set in the rim of a bow fastened to a breastplate.”
[the Related Stories link to photos of the seer stone after the story doesn't work for me. This link does:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-worl ... eph-smith/ ]
However:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/stu ... n?lang=engGospel Topics Essay wrote: Apparently for convenience, Joseph often translated with the single seer stone rather than the two stones bound together to form the interpreters. These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable and worked in much the same way such that, in the course of time, Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term “Urim and Thummim” to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters.
So, after the church eventually admitted that Joseph Smith used his "scrying" seer stone to translate parts of the Book of Mormon, it seems that Lucas & Neville are suggesting that that is not correct.