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Hill, Richard L. “C. Douglas Beardall and Jewel N. Beardall, About the Three Nephites.” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 5 (1993): Article 28.
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Review of About the Three Nephites (1992), by C. Douglas Beardall and Jewel N. Beardall.

ID = [145]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 19177  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:29
Bryson, Conrey. “Cabeza de Vaca . . . Among the Lamanites.” Improvement Era 45, no. 8 (1942): 504-505.
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The article relates the story of Cabeza de Vaca, a European who traversed across what is now Texas in the fall of 1537, and mingled among the Indians and found their traditions and beliefs closely related to Christianity.

Keywords: Ancient America — North America, Conquistadors, Native Americans
ID = [77126]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1942-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:03
Evans, J. Fred. “Calendar Stone Gives Exact Date of Geologic Cataclysm.” Deseret News Church Section(2 November 1935): 1.
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Shows that the Mexican Calendar Stone gives an account and the exact date of the “great cataclysm,” and that it is the same date and account that is given in the Book of Mormon. The “great cataclysm” is the destruction that happened to the land during and after the crucilixion of Jesus Christ.

ID = [79270]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1935-11-02  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Skousen, Royal. “A Call for Emendations.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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As I have been working on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, people have occasionally written or talked to me about passages in the Book of Mormon that seem strange or difficult. A good many have made specific suggestions about emendations (or revisions to the text). Surprisingly, a large percentage of these have ended up being correct or have led me to come up with an appropriate emendation.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; evidence; volume; FARMS; history
ID = [66723]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Rona, Herbert. Call of the Prophets. Salt Lake City: Visual Arts, 1952.
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A play based upon Book of Mormon characters and situations.

ID = [77673]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1952-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Roberts, B. H. “A Call to Repentance.” Improvement Era 26, no. 2 (December 1922): 159-65.
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America is a choice land and all who possess it must repent and serve God or be swept off.

ID = [81270]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1922-12-01  Collections:  bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:10
Rogers, Thomas F. A Call to Russia: Glimpses of Missionary Life. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2021.
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Hopeful and heartbreaking, sobering and exultant. A Call to Russia captures missionary life as experienced by a mission president, his wife and daughter, and the sisters and elders who served under him. But above all, this book is an invitation to reflect upon our own lives. Some glimpses from President Rogers: “Every morning Merriam still wakes up and asks, ‘Where am I?’ while I shake off the night’s slumber and involuntarily ask, ‘Who am I?’” “Our senior district president recently asked me, ‘What are your greatest impressions since coming here?’ I answered, ‘Faith and love. Love and faith.’ And the way things seem to fall apart on at least a weekly basis before they’re somehow put back together.” “In our quest to see God’s face, what most matters in mortality is how we face one another—with what patience, tenderness, mercy, and good humor.” “Another great blessing—a mission makes us more aware than otherwise of our personal inadequacies.” “A friend wrote me, ‘You’ve certainly changed.’ It’s good others can see how the gospel has indeed changed us—how we have repented. As a great assistant to the president put it, ‘The best missionary is a repenting missionary.’” “We all confront, all the time, a choice between two paths. One is higher, with steeper terrain, where you often strain to catch your breath or to reach a handhold. The other lies well below it and tends if anything toward a gradual and easy descent.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75245]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,church-history  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:35
Jeffries, Bridget Jack. “Called and Ordained: A Priesthood of All Believers in Alma 13.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81743]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Richards, A. LeGrand. Called to Teach: The Legacy of Karl G. Maeser. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
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Karl G. Maeser has rightfully been called the spiritual architect not only of Brigham Young University but also of the Church Educational System. As the first superintendent of Church Schools, he helped found and maintain over fifty academies and schools from Canada to Mexico. He helped develop the public education system in Utah and helped establish the Utah Teachers Association. The students he taught personally included future United States senators and members of the House of Representatives, a United States Supreme Court justice, university presidents, and many General Authorities. He translated twenty-nine hymns and about a third of the Doctrine and Covenants into German and founded Der Stern, the Church’s German magazine (now called the Liahona). Based on extensive research, Called to Teach describes the life of this remarkable man and outlines the impact of his legacy. ISBN 978-0-8425-2742-9

ID = [33249]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 21  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:30:54

Chapters

Richards, A. LeGrand. “Preface.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34813]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 39759  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Introduction.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34814]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 32382  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Karl’s Schooling.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34815]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 60307  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Pestalozzi, Revolution, and Reaktion.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34816]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64674  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “The Preparation of Karl’s Missionaries.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34817]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52515  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Adopted into the Kingdom of God.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
ID = [34818]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30022  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “From Dresden to London, 1855–57.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34819]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 66632  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “From Philadelphia to Salt Lake, 1857–60.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34820]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 80067  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Teacher in Salt Lake, 1860–67.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34821]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42710  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Maeser and Nineteenth-Century Educational Theory.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34822]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 46347  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Mission to the Fatherland, 1867–70.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34823]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 78721  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Intellectual Rebellion at Home, 1869–72.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34824]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40817  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:05
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Brigham Young versus Free Schools: A Battle for the Minds of the Young, 1870–75.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1845–1877
ID = [34825]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  brigham,rsc-books  Size: 70966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Beginnings of Brigham Young Academy 1876–84.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34826]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  brigham,rsc-books  Size: 55856  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “The Master Teacher.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > G — K > Honesty
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34827]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 73988  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Maeser the Man.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34828]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53991  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Expanding the System like a Banyan Tree.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
ID = [34829]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 72844  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Statehood in a Decade of Compromise.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > T — Z > Zion
ID = [34830]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 80681  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Maeser and Cluff: Competing Paradigms?” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
ID = [34831]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40536  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “Index.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
ID = [34832]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Richards, A. LeGrand. “School and Fireside: Maeser’s Legacy.” In Called to Teach. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2014.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [34833]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64251  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:06
Welch, John W. “The Calling of a Prophet.” In The Book of Mormon: First Nephi, The Doctrinal Foundation, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr., 35–54. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [36890]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books,welch  Size: 51642  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:01
Welch, John W. “The Calling of Lehi as a Prophet in the World of Jerusalem.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 421—48. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
ID = [39699]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Jolley, Katy. “A Calming Answer.” New Era 23 (April 1993): 49.
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Though her parents are divorcing, author finds peace and calm in reading the Book of Mormon.

ID = [78858]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1993-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Taylor, John. Calumny Refuted and the Truth Defended, Being a Reply to the Second Address of the Rev. Robert Heys, Wesleyan Minister the Wesleyan Methodist Societies in Douglas and its Vicinity. Nauvoo: Penrice and Wallace, 184?.
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Through the employment of biblical scriptures, Taylor answers Rev. Heys’s complaints about “Mormonism” Heys argues against Mormon doctrines: the Book of Mormon does not possess equal authority with the Bible; little children are incapable of sin; all without the law are alive in Christ; immersion is the proper mode of baptism; it is a mockery before God to baptize little children.

ID = [77674]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1840-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Peterfield, William. Cambridge History of American Literature. 4 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921.
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Volume 3:517-72 introduces the Book of Mormon as a “curiousity of literature” and a “literature of disguise” that was created by Joseph Smith.

ID = [77675]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1921-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Scripture Central. “Can Chiasmus Survive Translation?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #343. July 24, 2017.
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Keywords: Chiasmus; Translation; Parallelism; Hebrew; Bible; Old Testament; New Testament; Ancient Greek; Evidence
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
ID = [7993]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-07-24  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10457  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:40
Tvedtnes, John A. “Can Early Chinese Maritime Expeditions Shed Light on Lehi’s Voyage to the New World?” The FARMS Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 427-428.
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Review of Gavin Menzies. 1421, the Year China Discovered America.

Keywords: China; Far East; Ship; Transoceanic Voyage
ID = [466]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 4699  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Godfrey, Dale. “Can Forgiven Sins Be Returned?” The Witness: Newsletter of the Foundation for Research on Ancient America 77 (Summer 1992): 11-12.
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Scriptural passages in the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Doctrine and Covenants suggest that forgiven sins may not always remain so. In order to bring safety to the soul one must forgive others and “endure to the end” (1 Nephi 7:69).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [79271]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1992-07-01  Collections:  bom,d-c  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Hilton, Joni. “Can I Get a Book of Mormon?” Ensign, August 2015.
ID = [61135]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2290  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:43
Wallace, Arthur. Can Mormonism be Proved Experimentally?. Ann Arbor, MI: Edward Brothers, 1973.
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A partial revision of Evidence in Science and Religion

ID = [77676]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1973-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Scripture Central. “Can Textual Studies Help Readers Understand the Isaiah Chapters in 2 Nephi?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #39. February 23, 2016.
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Keywords: Textual Criticism; Critical Text; Isaiah; Joseph Smith; Joseph Smith Translation; Nephi; Textual Variants; Church History; Book of Mormon Translation; Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [8297]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-23  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,old-test  Size: 10433  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Peterson, Daniel C., and Donald L. Enders. “Can the 1834 Affidavits Attacking the Smith Family Be Trusted?” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by Welch, John W., and Melvin J. Thorne, 285-288. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999.
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Keywords: Anti-Mormon; Criticism; Early Church History; Smith; Joseph; Jr.
ID = [75705]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,peterson  Size: 5156  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:58
Unattributed. “Can the Book of Mormon Be Trusted?” Utah Christian Tract Society 13 (May-June 1982): 2.
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Inasmuch as the 1981 edition of the Book of Mormon changes the phrase “white and delightsome” (2 Nephi 30:6) to read “pure and delightsome” (having reference to the Lamanites), the Book of Mormon is not to be trusted.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [79272]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1982-05-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Stapley, Delbert L. “Can Two Walk Together.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 1958.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [27232]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1958-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 17708  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:13
Widtsoe, John A. “Can We Believe the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon?” Improvement Era 49, no. 6 (1946): 385, 414-415.
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This article provides several reasons to believe the testimony of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Eight Witnesses, Law of Witnesses, Other Witnesses, Three Witnesses, Witnesses
ID = [76867]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1946-06-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:03
Cook, Quentin L. “Can Ye Feel So Now?” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2012.
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Some in the Church believe they can’t answer Alma’s question with a resounding yes. They do not “feel so now.”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [21715]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 13514  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:49
Read, Lenet Hadley. “Can you give me some keys to help me understand the parable of the tame and wild olive tree that Jacob tells?” Ensign, April 1977.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [43606]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1977-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5293  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:49:47
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You?’: Moroni’s Charged Rhetoric in Alma 60:30–32.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 199-210.
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Abstract: Under the duress of a lengthy war, and prompted by recent Lamanite military successes, as well as incensed at the government’s failure to resupply Helaman’s armies with provisions and to send men to reinforce the city Nephihah, Moroni sent a second scathing letter to the leaders of the Nephite nation in the Nephite capital city Zarahemla. As other scholars have noted, the name Zarahemla likely denotes “seed of compassion” or “seed of sparing.” In this article, I propose that Moroni’s rhetoric in the letter includes an acerbic word-irony involving the meaning of Zarahemla perhaps achieved in terms of the Hebrew verb yaḥmōl (“[he] will spare,” from ḥml, “spare,” “have compassion.” This word-irony points out that although the Lord had spared the people of Zarahemla and the Nephites in the past, the uncompassionate behavior of the nation’s leaders in Zarahemla was creating conditions under which the Lord would not spare the leadership in Zarahemla. Moroni wrote, “Behold, I come unto you, even in the land of Zarahemla, and smite you with the sword … For behold, the Lord will not suffer that ye shall live and wax strong in your iniquities to destroy his righteous people. Behold, can you suppose that the Lord will spare you…?” (Alma 60:30–32). The covenant background of this threat will also be explored.

Keywords: Alma 60; Book of Mormon; Captain Moroni; Zarahemla
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [12573]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2022-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 28442  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:12
Valletta, Thomas R. “The Captain and the Covenant.” In The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word, eds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
ID = [36790]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 50153  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:56
Jensen, Elwin W. Captain Cook as the Fair God Lono. Bountiful, UT: author, 1974.
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At the time that Captain Cook landed in Hawaii the local people assumed that he was the god Lono. On other occasions and with different characters similar scenes occurred in Mexico and Peru. Such occurrences recall the story that Jesus would someday return to the peoples of the Americas.

ID = [77677]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1974-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Ensign. “Captain Moroni.” Ensign January 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [59535]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 533  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Boyce, Duane. “Captain Moroni and the Sermon on the Mount: Resolving a Scriptural Tension.” BYU Studies Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2021): 127-162.
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A natural tension seems to exist between two important features of the Book of Mormon. On one hand, Mormon includes in his record a version of the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus gave to the Nephites—an address that sets the standard for discipleship and that contains teachings obviously opposed to violence. In it, we hear about not resisting evil, turning the other cheek, going another mile when compelled to go one, loving our enemies—and so forth (3 Ne. 12:39–44). On the other hand, Mormon also presents various Nephite leaders as righteous even though they were immersed in violence. Captain Moroni stands out among these leaders because his wartime activities dominate the last third of the book of Alma: we see him in significant detail. The juxtaposition of these two threads appears contradictory. We see righteous men, including prophetic figures, engaged in the very activities that the text itself seems to prohibit. And this apparent contradiction seems significant even though most of these leaders lived before the Sermon was even given. This is because it is natural to think of the Book of Mormon as a whole—as a collection of significant experiences and teachings that are consistent with one another and that together present a unified, divine message to the world. We thus expect to see the book’s most prominent leaders actually live the standard found in the book’s most prominent teachings— whether they actually possessed the Sermon on the Mount or not. And therein lies the problem. Although these prominent teachings clearly seem to be opposed to violence, we see these prominent leaders very much engaged in violence. It is not necessarily obvious how to resolve this tension. One strategy, of course, would be to ignore the tension and to simply avoid thinking about it. But a sacred text requires more from us than that. So the apparent disparity has to be faced. How is it possible to reconcile Captain Moroni with the Sermon on the Mount?

Keywords: Anger; Captain Moroni; Mormon (Prophet); Sermon on the Mount; Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [10464]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2021-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 63777  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:58
Floyd, Ben. “Captain Moroni Helped Me Teach Middle School.” Ensign, October 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [61681]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2363  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:47
Spencer, David E. Captain Moroni’s Command: Dynamics of Warfare in the Book of Mormon. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, Inc., 2015.
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“Join the ranks and fight alongside Captain Moroni in this in-depth look at the wars, battles, and conflicts in the book of Alma war chapters. In this book, you’ll discover: what made the Nephites successful even when they were outnumbered; how the Nephites’ military strategies provide further proof of the Book of Mormon’s authenticity; why Mormon focused so much attention on the Alma war chapters; how Moroni follows the timeless principles of war; and why these wars transformed both Nephite and Lamanite societies.” [From back of book]

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Study; Book of Mormon, evidence; Book of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81522]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:25
Boyce, Duane. “Captain Moroni’s Revelation.” BYU Studies Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019): 155-159.
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Moroni reports receiving a revelation in which the Lord told him, “If those whom ye have appointed your governors do not repent of their sins and iniquities, ye shall go up to battle against them” (Alma 60:33). Because Pahoran, the chief governor of the Nephites at the time, turns out to be innocent of the charges contained in Moroni’s revelation, it is easy to think that Moroni’s revelation is mistaken in some way. Textual clues, however, suggest the revelation and its accompanying epistle were directed not only to Pahoran but also to many other generals, who were likely guilty of the sins mentioned by Moroni. Thus, contrary to previous thinking, Moroni’s revelation may have, in fact, been accurate.

Keywords: Captain Moroni; Pahoran (Chief Judge); Revelation
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [10338]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 7118  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:57
McClendon, Richard J. “Captain Moroni’s Wartime Strategies: An Application for the Spiritual Battles of Our Day.” Religious Educator Vol. 3 no. 3 (2002).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > L — P > Obedience
RSC Topics > T — Z > Temptation
ID = [38061]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2002-01-03  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 37584  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:13
Kapp, Ardeth Greene. “Captains of Ten.” New Era 13, no. 11 (1983): 48-50.
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A youth oriented challenge to read the Book of Mormon. Youth relate testimonial experiences they had while reading the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Moroni',s Promise, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76596]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1983-11-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:47
Kapp, Ardeth Greene. “Captains of Ten.” New Era 13 (November 1983): 48-50.
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A youth oriented challenge to read the Book of Mormon. Youth relate testimonial experiences they had while reading the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79273]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1983-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Tvedtnes, John A. “Captivity and Liberty in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36235]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Jensen, Robin Scott, Gerrit John Dirkmaat, and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “The ‘Caractors’ Document: New Light on an Early Transcription of the Book of Mormon Characters.” Mormon Historical Studies 14, no. 1 (Spring, 2013): 131-152.
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The article discusses research concerning a document known as the “Caractors” and its relationship to the “Book of Mormon” and the gold plates associated with the “Book of Mormon,” and its significance to the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). It discusses the testimony of possible gold plates witness David Whitmer, the interpretative research of historian George Q. Cannon, and whether the document was the same as the document taken to scholar Charles Anthon from LDS convert Martin Harris.

Keywords: Cannon, George Q.; Anthon, Charles; Harris, Martin; Whitmer, John; Book of Mormon, Anthon transcript; Historical documents, importance of; Smith, Joseph, Jr., writing style
ID = [82035]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:54
Jenson, Andrew. “The Career of the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 26, no. 11 (1923): 963-968.
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This article is a rehearsal of primary events connected with the Book of Mormon, including Joseph Smith’s work with the gold plates, the conversion of several individuals (including Thomas B. Marsh, Willard Richards, Parley P. Pratt, and Sidney Rigdon) through the power of the book, and a discussion of the various translations of the Book of Mormon into foreign languages.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Book of Mormon Translation, Conversion, Foreign Language Translation, Gold Plates, Marsh, Thomas B., Pratt, Parley P., Richards, Willard, Rigdon, Sidney
ID = [76810]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1923-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:59
Midgley, Louis C. “Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 63-73.
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Review of Lofte Payne. Joseph Smith the Make-Believe Martyr: Why the Book of Mormon Is America’s Best Fiction. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006. xxi + 331 pp., with appendix and index. $23.10 (paperback).
Abstract: The faith of Latter-day Saints is rooted in Joseph Smith’s recovery of the Book of Mormon, which presents itself as an authentic ancient text and divine special revelation. Book-length efforts to explain away these two grounding historical claims began in 1834, and have never ceased. They are often the works of disgruntled former Saints. In 1988 Loftes Tryk self-published an amusing, truly bizarre, seemingly countercult sectarian account of the Book of Mormon. In 2006, now under the name Lofte Payne, he again opined on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. He discarded the notion that Joseph Smith was a demon. He now claims that the Book of Mormon was Joseph’s sly, previously entirely unrecognized covert effort to trash all faith in divine things. In this review, Payne’s explanation is compared and contrasted with books by Alan D. Tyree, a former member of the RLDS First Presidency, and Dale E. Luffman, a recent Community of Christ Apostle, as well as that of Robert M. Price, a militant atheist, and Grant Palmer, and also the Podcraft of John Dehlin, all of whom have in similar ways opined that the Book of Mormon is frontier fiction fashioned by Joseph Smith from ideas floating around his immediate environment.

ID = [4226]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 27566  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:16
Lloyd, T. E. “Carroll-Lloyd Exposé: Elder T. E. Lloyd Replies to Rev. Carroll, Defending the Book of Mormon and Prophetic Mission of Joseph Smith.” N.p., 1895.
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The Bible does not indicate a cessation of revelation, and was not intended to be the last and only rule of faith and practice. Joseph Smith received revelation that the Book of Mormon was a divine document. Hurlbut originated the Spaulding theory. Professor Anthon’s statement is examined. Discusses the witnesses to the Book of Mormon and finds their testimonies valid.

ID = [77678]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1895-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Homans, James Edward [Webb, Robert C., pseud.]. The Case Against Mormonism. New York: L. L. Walton, 1915.
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A response to criticisms raised by various critics of Mormonism, written by a non-Mormon under the pseudonym of Robert C. Webb. Provides a discussion of prominent criticisms of the Book of Mormon including the Anthon denials, reformed Egyptian, Solomon Spaulding, Shakespeare, and modern phrases.

ID = [78448]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1915-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Tanner, Jerald, and Sandra Tanner. The Case Against Mormonism. 3 vols. Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1967, 1968, 1971.
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These volumes repeat much of the material found in the Tanners’ Mormonism: Shadow or Reality. Volume 2 deals entirely with the Book of Mormon. Over 400 parallels between verses in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon are given. Contains a discussion of theories regarding the Hebrew origin of the American Indians that were common in the days of Joseph Smith. The authors believe that the Book of Mormon is a product of Joseph Smith’s environment.

ID = [78447]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1971-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Gardner, Brant A. “The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon’s Production Culture.” Paper presented at the 2004 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2004.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Historicity
ID = [32406]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2004-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 48668  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Brown, S. Kent. “A Case for Lehi’s Bondage in Arabia.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 6 no. 2 (1997).
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The lengthy sojourn of Lehi’s family in the Arabian desert invites the almost inevitable question whether circumstances forced family members to live in the service of tribesmen either for protection or for food. In my view, enough clues exist in the Book of Mormon—they have to be assembled—to bring one to conclude that the family lived for a time in a servile condition, a situation that apparently entailed suffering and conflict.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [2962]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 33409  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:16
Callister, Tad R. “A Case for the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.
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Keywords: Alma the Elder; Alma the Younger; Archaeology; Barley; Book of Mormon Authorship; Book of Mormon Historicity; Cement; Doctrine; Eight Witnesses; Emma; Late War; Metal Plates; Prophecy; Smith; Three Witnesses; View of the Hebrews
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [32676]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2019-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 33310  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Welch, John W. “The Case of an Unobserved Murder.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Law of Witnesses; Laws; Legal; Murder; Nephi (Son of Helaman); Seantum
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [66513]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:39
Carmack, Stanford A. “The Case of Plural Was in the Earliest Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 109-137.
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Abstract: Because it is primarily an Early Modern English text (in terms of its English language), the earliest text of the Book of Mormon understandably employs plural was — for example, “the words which was delivered” (Alma 5:11). It does so in a way that is substantially similar to what is found in many writings of the Early Modern period ­— that is, it manifests the syntactic usage, variation, and differential rates typical of that era.
Editor’s note: Because of the complex typesetting of this article, the rest of it has not been reproduced on this webpage. The reader is referred to the PDF version to view the entire article.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4403]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 641  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:29
Jones, J. H. N. “The Case of the Book of Mormon.” Saints’ Herald 77 (18 June 1930): 680-82.
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Outlines the different groups who came to America as described in the Book of Mormon and shows how the Book of Mormon story agrees consistently with the Bible in history and doctrine.

ID = [80422]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1930-06-18  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:25
Ricks, Eldin. The Case of the Book of Mormon Witnesses. Orem, UT: Orion Publishing, 2002.
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Keywords: Cowdery, Oliver, Eight Witnesses, Harris, Martin, Three Witnesses, Whitmer, David
ID = [75427]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Carmack, Stanford A. “The Case of the {-th} Plural in the Earliest Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 18 (2016): 79-108.
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Abstract: The earliest text of the Book of Mormon employs the {-th} plural — for example, “Nephi’s brethren rebelleth” — in a way that is substantially similar to what is found in many writings of the Early Modern period. The earliest text neither underuses nor overuses the construction, and it manifests inflectional variation and differential usage rates typical of Early Modern English. The totality of the evidence tells us that the Book of Mormon is most reasonably classified as a 16th- or 17th-century text, not as a 19th-century text full of biblical hypercorrections.
Editor’s note: Because of the complex typesetting of this article, the rest of it has not been reproduced on this webpage. The reader is referred to the PDF version to view the entire article.

ID = [4402]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 776  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:29
Times and Seasons. “A Catacomb of Mummies Found in Kentucky.” Times and Seasons Vol. 3, no. 13: May 1, 1842: 781-82.
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The discovery of mummies in Kentucky recalls the Hebrew practice of embalming. Author suggests that this practice was brought to ancient America by the Hebrews because, according to the Book of Mormon, the native Americans are descendants of Hebrews.

ID = [80891]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1842-09-01  Collections:  bom,times-seasons  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:52
Church News. “Catalan Dialect is Book of Mormon Translation #32.” Church News 51 (6 June 1981): 14.
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Catalan, a Spanish dialect of Northeastern Spain, is the thirty-second complete translation of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79274]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1981-06-06  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
BYU Religious Education. A Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations Concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormonism and Utah. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1971.
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The theses and dissertations are listed according to authors and titles. Subjects such as “Lamanites and Polynesians,” “Book of Mormon History,” and “Book of Mormon” can be found in the subject index.

ID = [77395]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1971-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Gardner, Kathryn C. “Catching the Vision: Working Together to Create a Millennial Ward.” BYU Studies 35, no. 2 (1995): 200.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [12080]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1995-01-05  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 2013  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:10
Totten, Norman. “Categories of Evidence for Old World Contacts with Ancient America.” In The Book of Mormon: The Keystone Scripture, ed. Paul R. Cheesman, 187–205. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.
ID = [36980]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 41587  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:06
Warren, Bruce W. “A Cautious Interpretation of Mesoamerican Myth: Reflections Upon Olmec-Jaredite Roots.” Society for Early Historic Archaeology Newsletter 154 (July 1983): 1-8.
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Suggests that some of the legends of the Popol Vuh have affinities with the book of Ether. Notes the meaning of “Shiblon” (lion cub) and a possible connection with Ixbalan (little jaguar).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [78859]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1983-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Ginat, Joseph. “The Cave of Khirbet Beit Lei.” Society for Early Historic Archaeology Newsletter 129 (April 1972): 1-5.
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A cave found in Israel contains ancient inscriptions in Old Hebrew and drawings of human figures and sailing vessels. It contains the name Lei that is an equivalent of Lehi.

ID = [80423]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1972-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:25
Young, Brigham. “Cease to Bring in and Build up Babylon—Separate Yourselves From Sinners and From Sin—Have not Come With Any New Doctrine—We Must Be One—Without Works It Cannot Be Proved that Faith Exists—The Time Come to Organize the Saints—The Time and Energies of the Saints All that is Wanted—Geological Researches of Prof. Marsh—Scientific Demonstration of the Truth of the Book of Mormon.” In Journal of Discourses, Volume 17. 1875, 36–46.
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Discourse by President Brigham Young, delivered in the Meetinghouse in Nephi City, Juab County, Saturday Morning, April 18, 1874. Reported By: David W. Evans.

ID = [29200]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1874-04-18  Collections:  bom,brigham,jnl-disc  Size: 35160  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:25
Welch, John W. “Celebrating Moroni Day.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Hawaii, September 29, 2021.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [70499]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-09-29  Collections:  bom,byuh-speeches,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:55
Smith, Timothy B. “Celebrating the Season—Together.” Ensign, December 1999.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [54170]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1999-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1492  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:21
Peterson, Daniel C. “Celebrating Two New Books in the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 20, 2018.
ID = [4872]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-20  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,peterson  Size: 6148  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:04
Hales, Robert D. “Celestial Marriage—A Little Heaven on Earth.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, November 9, 1976.
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Keywords: Love; Marriage; Collection: Marriage and Love; Podcast: Marriage & Love; Inspiring Short: We' ll Ascend Together
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [68476]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1976-11-09  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:03:16
Wirth, Diane E. “Celestial Visits in the Scriptures, and a Plausible Mesoamerican Tradition.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 14 (2015): 55-75.
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Abstract: Scriptural accounts of celestial beings visiting the earth are abundant in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Whether a descending deity or angelic beings from celestial realms, they were often accompanied by clouds. In this paper a short analysis of the various types of clouds, including imitation clouds (incense), will be discussed. The relation between the phenomenon of supernatural beings, sometimes in clouds, may have had a great influence on descendants of Book of Mormon cultures. For these people, stories that were told from one generation to the next would have been considered ancient mythological lore. It may be plausible that future generations attempted to duplicate the same type scenario of celestial beings speaking and visiting their people. These events were sometimes recorded in stone.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [4254]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 42330  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:18
Christensen, Ross T. “Cement in Ancient America.” University Archaeological Society Newsletter 51 (16 July 1958): 3.
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The cement found in the more advanced Mesoamerican civilizations of ancient America is “approximately equivalent to modern lime cements” It appears that cement was the principal building material of the era.

ID = [79275]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1958-07-16  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Novak, Gary F. “Censoring the Book of Mormon?” FARMS Review of Books 11, no. 1 (1999): 6-9.
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Review of A Reader's Book of Mormon Digest: Condensed from the Book of Mormon: A New Witness for Christ. A Monthly Reading Program and Study Guide of the Doctrines of the Book of Mormon (1997), by Robert H. Moss

Keywords: Education; Scripture Study; Study Aid
ID = [316]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 9540  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:39
Nibley, Hugh W. “Censoring the Joseph Smith Story.” in Improvement Era in 4 parts running from Jul 1961 through Nov 1961.
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Reprinted in Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: The Art of Telling Tales about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 11.
Explains how Joseph Smith’s critics in the 1840s and Fawn Brodie rewrote Joseph’s story to suit their perceptions of the Book of Mormon and the First Vision.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
ID = [931]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1961-07-01  Collections:  bom,brigham,nibley  Size:   Children: 4  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:19

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 1: The Problem.” In Censoring the Joseph Smith Story series, Improvement Era 64, no. 7 (July 1961): 490–92, 522, 524, 526, 528.
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The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.
A study of claims that Joseph Smith’s first vision was a fabrication due to the time lapse between when it was written and when it was published.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
ID = [932]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1961-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 32334  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:20
Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 2: Suppressing the First Vision Story after 1842.” In Censoring the Joseph Smith Story series, Improvement Era 64, no. 8 (August 1961): 577–79, 605–9.
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The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.
Looks at various summaries of Joseph Smith’s vision and how the deleted portions of these summaries make them lose all authenticity and truth.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
ID = [933]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1961-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 34145  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:20
Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 3.” In Censoring the Joseph Smith Story series, Improvement Era 64, no. 10 (October 1961): 724–25, 736, 738, 740.
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This talked about how the dead received baptism.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
ID = [934]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1961-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 25998  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:20
Nibley, Hugh W. “Conclusion.” In Censoring the Joseph Smith Story series, Improvement Era 64, no. 11 (November 1961): 812–13, 865–69.
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A conclusion to the Joseph Smith Story series.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
ID = [935]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1961-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 29501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:20
Nibley, Hugh W. “Censoring the Joseph Smith Story.” In Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 11. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991.
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Originally a four-part series in the Improvement Era, running from July to November 1961.
Explains how Joseph Smith’s critics in the 1840s and Fawn Brodie rewrote Joseph’s story to suit their perceptions of the Book of Mormon and the First Vision.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Joseph Smith > Criticisms, Apologetics
ID = [2140]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1991-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:28
Sorenson, John L. “Centenary of a Giant.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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It has been 100 years since George Reynolds published his massive work, A Complete Concordance of the Book of Mormon. Reynolds worked on this project, begun while serving a prison sentence for polygamy, over 21 years of his life. He tabulated virtually every word used in the Book of Mormon except a few of the most common words, and gave a portion of the sentence in which each cited word appeared. He himself paid all the printing costs.

ID = [3045]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 16913  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Nordgren, Weston N. Centennial Lessons for the Relief Society in the European Missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Liverpool: LDS European Mission, 1930.
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Ten theology lessons designed to give evidences of the divine origin of the Book of Mormon. Bible passages foretold the Book of Mormon. Tells about the translation and publication of the manuscript, provides the testimonies of the witnesses, explains the objections to the Book of Mormon, Indian traditions, and similarities between the Biblical and Book of Mormon passages.

ID = [77679]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1930-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Insights. “Center for Book of Mormon Studies Created.” Insights 27, no. 3 (2007).
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Accompanied by Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, President Cecil O. Samuelson recently announced the formation of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, a research center that promises to bring national and international distinction to the study of the Book of Mormon. President Samuelson made the announcement at a luncheon attended by Mark and Laura Willes and their family.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; research; scholarship; BYU; scriptures
ID = [66849]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-03  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:52
Ehat, Stephen Kent. “Centered on Christ: The Book of Enos Possibly Structured Chiastically.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58 (2023): Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58 (2023): 243-306.
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Abstract: The book of Enos is considered to be a short, one-chapter treatise on prayer, yet it is more. Close examination of its text reveals it to be a text structurally centered on Christ and the divine covenant. Enos seeks and obtains from Him a covenant to preserve the records of the Nephites for the salvation of the Lamanites. Enos prays not only for his own remission of sins but also for the salvation both of his own people, the Nephites, and also of the Lamanites. He yearns in faith that the Lord will preserve the records of his people for the benefit of the Lamanites. This article outlines a possible overall chiastic structure of vv. 3–27 as well as a centrally situated smaller chiasm of vv. 15–16a, which focus on Christ and His covenant with Enos. The voice of the Lord speaks to the mind of Enos seven times, and the proposed chiastic structure of the text is meaningfully related to those seven divine communications. We have the Book of Mormon in our day because of the faithful prayers and faithful labors of prophets like Enos and because of the promises they received from Christ, whose covenant to preserve the records is made the focal point at the center of the Enos text.

Keywords: Book of Enos; Book of Mormon; chiasmus; concentric structure
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [81205]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2023-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 154701  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:06
Morgan, M. H. “Central American Architecture.” Saints’ Herald 80 (4 January 1933): 15, 19.
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Central American architecture is similar to ancient Near Eastern architecture as found in Babylon and Egypt. The ruins in Central America fit criteria of architecture of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79276]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1933-01-04  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Dibble, Charles E. “Central American Migration Legend.” Improvement Era 46, no. 6 (1943): 330, 355.
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A series of brief comments in which the author presents archaeological findings, architectural notes, and myths and legends that deal indirectly with the Book of Mormon. Dibble discusses the wheel, ancient irrigation methods, metals, Mexican and Mayan codices, Quetzalcoatl, ancient buildings, and numerous other related items. The twenty-third part covers the “Central American migration legend.”

Keywords: Ancient America – Mesoamerica, Migration, Mythology
ID = [77110]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1943-06-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:03
Oakman, Arthur A. The Central Witness of the Book of Mormon. Gospel Quarterly Series.
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Independence, MO: Herald House, 1950

ID = [78449]  Status = Type = book  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Olsen, Steven L. “The Centrality of Nephi’s Vision.” Religious Educator Vol. 11 no. 2 (2010).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
ID = [38256]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2010-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 34375  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:25
Orden, Dell Van, and Gerry Avant. “The Century Before the Birth of Jesus.” Church News 58 (23 July 1988): 10.
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Beginning with 100 b.c., Book of Mormon history is compared with concurrent world history.

ID = [80424]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1988-07-23  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:25
Gardner, Barbara Morgan. “A Century of LDS Church Schools in Mexico Influenced by Lamanite Identity.” In The Worldwide Church, eds. Michael A. Goodman and Mauro Properzi. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2016.
ID = [34652]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,church-history,rsc-books,rsc-church-history,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:55
Cracroft, R. Paul. A Certain Testimony: A Mormon Epic in Twelve Books. Salt Lake City: Epic West, 1979.
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Presents an epic poem based upon the Book of Mormon story. The preface points out that America would not be what it is without the Book of Mormon nor could Mormonism be what it is without America.

ID = [77396]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1979-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Certainty of the Skeptical Witness.” Improvement Era 72, no. 3 (1969): 62-64, 66-67.
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This article discusses Martin Harris, a witness of the validity of the existence of the gold plates, stood firm in his testimony of the Book of Mormon and gave his report to all who would listen.

Keywords: Harris, Martin, Three Witnesses, Witnesses of the Restoration
ID = [76770]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1969-03-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:57
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Certainty of the Skeptical Witnesses.” Improvement Era 72, no. 3 (1969): 62-67.
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Martin Harris, a witness of the validity of the existence of the gold plates, stood firm in his testimony of the Book of Mormon and gave his report to all who would listen.

Keywords: Early Church History, Harris, Martin, Testimony, Three Witnesses, Translation
ID = [76771]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1969-03-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:57
Church News. “Challenge Met with Imagination.” Church News 59 (28 January 1989): 4.
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Members of a local congregation accept their leader’s challenge to read the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79277]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1989-01-28  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Midgley, Louis C. “The Challenge of Historical Consciousness: Mormon History and the Encounter with Secular Modernity.” In By Study and Also By Faith, Volume 2, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and John M. Lundquist, 502-551. Vol. 2. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies/Deseret Book, 1990.
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This second of two volumes of essays honoring Hugh Nibley includes scholarly papers based on what the authors have learned from Nibley. Nearly every major subject that Dr. Nibley has encompassed in his vast learning and scholarly production is represented here by at least one article. Topics include the sacrament covenant in Third Nephi, the Lamanite view of Book of Mormon history, external evidences of the Book of Mormon, proper names in the Book of Mormon, the brass plates version of Genesis, the composition of Lehi’s family, ancient burials of metal documents in stone boxes, repentance as rethinking, Mormon history’s encounter with secular modernity, and Judaism in the 20th century.
A study showing that the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith’s prophecies are being discussed in an arena in which there is a struggle for control of the past of the Latter-day Saints.

Keywords: Criticism; Faith; Modernity; Revisionism
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > History
ID = [2368]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1990-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-books,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:42
Skousen, W. Cleon. The Challenge of Our Times. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1953.
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The Book of Mormon is given to test the faith of mankind. It is a companion to the Bible and answers vital questions more now than when it was first published. The writings of ancient American prophets are found in the book and many of their prophecies pertain to this time when they are just now being fulfilled. The land of America is a land of importance to God and man. Those who are righteous will be blessed. A warning against pride and secret societies permeates the book. The most significant part of the book is Christ’s visit, organizing his church and establishing his ordinances.

ID = [78451]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Ludlow, Daniel H. “The Challenge of the Book of Mormon.” In The Book of Mormon: The Keystone Scripture, ed. Paul R. Cheesman, 1–20. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [36970]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 39959  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:06
Sorenson, John L. “The Challenge of the Maya Mystery.” Improvement Era 54, no. 10 (1951): 712, 738, 740.
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Giving a history of the Gates Collection of Mayan literature located at Brigham Young University, this author hopes that the origin of the Mayan culture may be found through study and a greater understanding.

Keywords: Ancient America – Mesoamerica, Archaeology, Codex, Language – Mayan, Native Americans – Maya, Pre-Columbian American History
ID = [76899]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1951-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era,sorenson  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:05
Nasr, Vali. “The Challenge of the Middle East: A Personal Journey into Global Strategy.” Forum, Brigham Young University, October 21, 2014.
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The issues tying the United States and the Middle East together are not simple. From oil, to terrorism, to Isis, Vali Nasr explains why maintaining interactions with the Middle East is crucial at this time.

Keywords: Politics
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69939]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2014-10-21  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:52
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Finnish Missions. The Challenge the “Book of Mormon” Makes to the World. Finland: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,n.d.
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A missionary tract that challenges non- believers to duplicate the text of the Book of Mormon. There are 30 speciic challenges: one challenge reads, for instance, “over 80,000 competent salesmen must be so sold on your book that they gladly give up two or more years of their lives to take it to all parts of the world”

ID = [78452]  Status = Type = book  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Wirth, Diane E. The Challenge to the Critics: Scholarly Evidences of the Book of Mormon. Bountiful: Horizon, 1986.
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Responds to anti-Mormon comments regarding the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, and sets forth evidence to support Latter-day Saint claims. Addresses the Smithsonian statement, metal plates, stone boxes, wordprints, chiasmus, Hebraisms, reformed Egyptian, Nephite monetary system, the wheel, the tree of life theme on Stela 5 at Izapa, and Christ in America.

ID = [78453]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Whittaker, A. C. The Challenge “The Book of Mormon” Makes to the World. Salt Lake City: 196?.
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Challenging others to duplicate the Book of Mormon, the author has published this list of conditions under which the book was translated.

ID = [78450]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1960-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Christensen, Bart L. Challenged. Nuneaton, England: Nuneaton Newspapers, 1920s or 1930s.
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A tract defending Mormonism and the Book of Mormon. Refers to archaeological evidence.

ID = [77680]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1920-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Ralston, Russell. “Challenged to Examine.” Restoration Witness 164 (August 1976): 7.
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An attempt to prove the Book of Mormon through external evidence led to a study of the book that opened the author’s mind to concepts that had previously been blind spots: the peace of God, prayer, and man’s relationship with God.

ID = [79278]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1976-08-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Sorenson, John L. “Challenging Conventional Views of Metal.” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by Welch, John W., and Melvin J. Thorne, 187-189. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999.
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Keywords: Ancient America; Mesoamerica; Metallurgy
ID = [75682]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,sorenson  Size: 4822  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:57
Stallings, Sandra. “Cham Nap.” New Era 16, no. 5 (1986): 38-39.
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A 14-year-old Cambodian boy struggled to read the Book of Mormon to strengthen his testimony and to learn English.

Keywords: Education, Scripture Study, Testimony
ID = [76603]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-05-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:48
Stallings, Sandra. “Cham Nap.” New Era 16 (May 1986): 38-39.
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A 14-year-old Cambodian boy struggled to read the Book of Mormon to strengthen his testimony and to learn English.

ID = [79279]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-05-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “A Change of Heart.” Friend 16 (January, February 1986): 48-49, 48.
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A story for children telling of the conversion of Alma the Younger and the sons of Mosiah (Mosiah 27, 29 and Alma 2-8) and relating the ministry of Alma the Younger in Ammonihah (Alma 13-15).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [78860]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Ensign. “Changed by the Book of Mormon.” Ensign February 2016.
ID = [61358]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8311  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:44
Stubbs, Brian D. “Changes in Languages from Nephi to Now.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Ancient America - Mesoamerica; Ancient America - North America; Language - Egyptian; Language - Phoenician; Language - Semitic; Language - Uto-Aztecan
ID = [32556]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 17319  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Skousen, Royal. “Changes in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2002 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2002.
ID = [32381]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2002-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size: 37251  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Skousen, Royal. “Changes in The Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 11 (2014): 161-176.
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Author’s preface: I originally gave this presentation in August 2002 at the LDS FAIR conference held in Orem, Utah. A transcript of this paper, based on the 2002 version, appears online at www.fairmormon.org. Since then I have published updated versions of the first half of that original presentation. The most recent history of the Book of Mormon critical text project can be found in my article “The Original Text of the Book of Mormon and its Publication by Yale University Press”, published in 2013 in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, volume 7, pages 57-96. Until now, I have not published a printed version of the second half of my original presentation, “Changes in the Book of Mormon”.
Abstract: In that part of the original article (here presented with some minor editing), I first describe the different kinds of changes that have occurred in the Book of Mormon text over the years and provide a fairly accurate number for how many places the text shows textual variation. Then I turn to five changes in the text (“the five chestnuts”) that critics of the Book of Mormon continually refer to. At the conclusion of the original article, I provide some specific numbers for the different types of changes in the history of the Book of Mormon text, including the number of changes introduced in The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, the definitive scholarly edition of the Book of Mormon, published in 2009 by Yale University Press.

ID = [4288]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 27911  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:21
Hales, Brian C. “Changing Critics’ Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 49-64.
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Abstract: In early 1830 Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, a 269,938-word volume that discusses religious themes intermingled with a history of ancient American peoples.
Claiming it was scripture like the Bible,
in 1841 he declared it to be “the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion.”
Yet, many changes in the text of the Book of Mormon can be detected when comparing the original manuscript to the version available today. These changes have served as a lightning rod for some critics who imply that a divinely inspired book should not require any alterations. This article examines the types of changes that have occurred while trying to assign levels of significance and identify Joseph’s motives in making those alterations in the 1837 and 1840 reprintings of the book.

ID = [3643]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 34317  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:05
Roberts, B. H. “Changing Emphasis Stressing the Deity of Christ and the Purposes of God in the Earth Life of Man.” Deseret News Church Section (24 December 1927): 5.
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The Book of Mormon shows that God spoke to the Jews in the Old Testament, the Christians in the New Testament, and the inhabitants of the American continents. A New Jerusalem or Zion is to be built up in the last days. The Book of Mormon declares the divinity of Christ and 3 Nephi is the fifth Gospel that declares that Christ appeared to the people of the New World after his resurrection.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [79280]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1927-12-24  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Perego, Ugo A. “The Changing Forms of the Latter-day Saint Sacrament.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 1-16.
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Abstract: Partaking of bread and water each Sunday is a fundamental part of the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — a solemn moment in which the mortal Savior’s mission and ministry are remembered and pondered by those who partake individually and as a congregation. This paper explores instructions provided by the Savior himself as found in the Mormon canon of scriptures, together with a review of how this practice has changed over time as part of the LDS Church liturgy. Moreover, the meaning associated with this sacred ordinance is analyzed by way of the Savior’s teachings in ancient scripture through Mormon prophets in modern times, particularly in light of a more recent emphasis shared by the LDS Church leadership.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3720]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 39358  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:10
Merrill, Amos N., and Alton D. Merrill. “Changing Thought on the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 45, no. 9 (1942): 568.
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This article is a published summary of Merrill’s thesis, written in 1940, wherein the author examined publications dealing with the Book of Mormon and noted the themes emphasized during the periods 1830-1855 and 1915-1940.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Criticism, Reception History
ID = [77064]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1942-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:03
Rogerson, Kenneth S. “Channeling TV Viewers to the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, October 1991.
ID = [50230]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1991-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2416  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:45:48
Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 1.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
ID = [37843]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 6867  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:02
Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 10.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
ID = [37853]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 16200  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:04
Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 11.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
ID = [37854]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 22364  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:04
Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 12.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [37855]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 48186  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:04
Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 14.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [37856]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 50610  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:04
Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 1: ‘. . . There Can Be No More Bible.’” In Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 7, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988.
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A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 2.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 3.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 4.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 4: ‘. . . But Unto Them It Is Not Given’” In Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 7, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988.
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A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 5.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 6.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 7.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 8.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 8.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 8: ‘Forever Tentative . . .’” In Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 7, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988.
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A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.
Dr. Nibley stresses that our knowledge of the ancient world will remain forever tentative.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics > Archaeology, External Evidences, Geography
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Jackson, Kent P. “Chapter 9.” In Manuscript Found, ed. Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1996.
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Cannon, George Q. “Chapter I.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 11-14. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Nephi’s Character—He Gives God the Glory—Born at Jerusalem—Probable Time of Birth—His Education—Kings Known to Lehi—Ezekiel and Jeremiah and other Prophets—Familiarity of Nephi with Writings of Prophets

Keywords: Education, Jerusalem (Old World), Kingship, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophet
ID = [76075]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:18
Reynolds, George. “Chapter I.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 20-29. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Ancient Jerusalem—Lehi—His Vision—His Call to Preach to the Jews—They Persecute Him—He is Commanded of God to take his Family into the Wilderness—Their Departure—The Return of his Sons to Jerusalem to obtain the Records. They are ill-treated by Laban—His Death—Zoram Accompanies the Brothers into the Wilderness

Keywords: Brass Plates, Laban, Laman (Son of Lehi), Lehi (Prophet), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophet, Sam (Son of Lehi), Zoram (Servant of Laban)
ID = [76096]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter II.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 14-17. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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True and False Prophets—Lehi’s Vision—He Warns the People—They Persecute and Try to Kill Him—Commanded in a Dream to Take His Family into the Wilderness—Came to Red Sea—Camped near it—Built an Altar and Made Offering to the Lord—Laman and Lemuel—Their Unbelief—Shaken and Confounded Before their Father

Keywords: Jerusalem (Old World), Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophecy, Prophet, Vision
ID = [76076]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:18
Reynolds, George. “Chapter II.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 30-42. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Rejoicing Over the Records—Nephi and his Brothers again Return to Jerusalem—They Conduct Ishmael and his Family into the Wilderness—Lehi’s Dream— The Tree of Life—The Rod of Iron—The Boturini Manuscript—Nephi’s Vision

Keywords: Brass Plates, Dream, Iron Rod, Ishmael, Ishmael',s Daughters, Ishmael',s Wife, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Tree of Life, Vision
ID = [76097]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter III.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 18-21. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Faith of Nephi and its Effects—Sam’s Belief—Revelation with Promise to Nephi—Land of Promise, Choice Above other Lands—Nephi to be a Ruler and a Teacher to his Brethren—Required to Return to Jerusalem—His Willingness—Lehi Gratified at His Faith—Laban and Brass Plates—Angry and Refused to Give Them to Laman—Threatened His Life—Laman and Lemuel Discouraged—Nephi’s Proposition—His Brothers Agree to it

Keywords: Brass Plates, Commandment, Laman (Son of Lehi), Lehi (Prophet), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Obedience, Prophet, Sam (Son of Lehi)
ID = [76077]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:18
Reynolds, George. “Chapter III.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 42-51. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Marriages in the Company—The Liahona—The Journey Continued—Nephi Breaks his Bow—Death of Ishmael—They Reach the Ocean—Nephi Builds a Ship—They Cross the Great Waters and Reach the Promised Land

Keywords: Ishmael, Marriage, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Transoceanic Voyage, Weaponry
ID = [76098]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter IV.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 22-25. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Lehi’s Riches—Laban Covets Them—Sent his Servants to Kill Laman and his Brothers—They flee for their Lives—Nephi Whipped by Laman and Lemuel—Visited by an Angel—Laman and Lemuel still Murmur—Nephi Leads Them to the City Walls—Laban Lying Drunk—His Sword—Most Famous Weapon in the World—Those who have Seen it—Nephi Constrained to Kill Laban—Personates Him and Obtains Plates—His Brothers Frightened—Laban’s Servant, Zoram—Promises to go With Nephi into the Wilderness

Keywords: Angel, Brass Plates, Laman (Son of Lehi), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Sam (Son of Lehi), Sword of Laban, Zoram (Servant of Laban)
ID = [76078]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:18
Reynolds, George. “Chapter IV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 53-56. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Promised Land—Chili—Its Natural Productions—The Death of Lehi—His Blessing on his posterity—Prophecies of his Ancestor Joseph

Keywords: Ancient America, Book of Mormon Geography, Joseph (of Egypt), Lehi (Prophet), Prophecy, South America
ID = [76099]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter IX.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 44-47. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Popular at Jerusalem to Reject Prophets—Laman and Lemuel did not Believe Predictions Concerning that City—Confidence of Jews in Jerusalem—Glory of the City—The Magnificent Temple—Capture of the City—The Conspirators Chastened—Lehi and Nephi saved

Keywords: Jerusalem (Old World), Laman (Son of Lehi), Lehi (Prophet), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophecy, Prophet
ID = [76083]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter IX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 72-78. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Causes that Led to the Migration from the Land of Nephi—The People of Zarahemla—Mulek and his Colony—The Fusion of the Two Nations—Mosiah made King— His Happy Reign

Keywords: Kingship, Mosiah the Elder, Mulek (Son of Zedekiah), Zarahemla (Polity)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76104]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Reynolds, George. “Chapter L.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 281-286. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Jesus Returns and Renews His Teachings—He Administers the Sacrament—He Explains the Teachings of the Prophets—The Words of Malachi

Keywords: Covenant, Doctrine, Jesus Christ, Malachi (Book), Ordinance, Prophecy, Sacrament
ID = [76145]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 286-289. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Savior Continues His Ministrations—He Raises a Man from the Dead—The Labors of the Twelve—The Name of the Church—The Three who should Remain

Keywords: Jesus Christ, Miracles, Name of the Church, Three Nephites, Twelve Disciples
ID = [76146]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 290-293. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Long Continued Era of Peace and Righteousness—Death of Nephi—His Son Amos—Amos the Second

Keywords: Amos (Son of Amos), Amos (Son of Nephi), Nephi the Disciple (Son of Nephi), Peace, Prophet
ID = [76147]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 295-298. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Commencement of the Apostasy—It Grows in Intensity—The Persecution of the Disciples—Lamanites Again—Re-appearance of the Gadianton Bands—War— Ammaron Hides the Records

Keywords: Ammaron, Apostasy, Gadianton Robbers, Lamanite, Nephite, Persecution, Warfare
ID = [76148]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 298-302. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Last Long Series of Wars—Mormon—The Final Conflict at Cumorah—The Last of the Nephites

Keywords: Cumorah, Mormon (Prophet), Moroni (Son of Mormon), Three Nephites, Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76149]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 324-330. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Science and Literature Among the Nephites—Their Astronomy and Geography —The Learning of Egypt

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Astronomy, Book of Mormon Geography, Education, Literacy, Literature
ID = [76154]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 302-307. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Historians of the Nephites—The Plates of Nephi—List of their Custodians— Their Lengthened Years

Keywords: Age, Large Plates of Nephi, Recordkeepers, Recordkeeping, Small Plates of Nephi
ID = [76150]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 307-312. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Women of the Book of Mormon—Their Condition and Position—Abish— Isabel—Marriage—Amulek—Moroni’s Title of Liberty—The Mothers of the Ammonites— Two Extremes

Keywords: Abish, Amulek, Isabel, Judgeship, Lamanite, Marriage, Mothers of the Stripling Warriors, Nephite, Sariah, Title of Liberty, Women, Womenhood
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76151]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 313-319. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Domestic Life Among the Nephites—Household Duties—Dress—Ornaments— Homes—Food—Manufactures—Transportation

Keywords: Architecture, Clothing, Domesticity, Nephite, Transportation
ID = [76152]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 320-324. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Agriculture Among the Nephites—Grains—Stock Raising—Irrigation

Keywords: Agriculture, Irrigation
ID = [76153]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 330-337. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Art of War Among the Nephites—Their Weapons, Armor and Fortifications —Moroni’s Line of Defense

Keywords: Architecture, Captain Moroni, Fortifications, Warfare, Weaponry
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76155]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 338-346. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Laws of the Nephites—The Roman and Nephite Civilizations—The Laws under the Kings—Position of the Priesthood—Slavery—Criminal Offenses

Keywords: Criminal Justice, Laws, Legal, Slavery, Social Structure
ID = [76156]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 347-356. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Laws under the Judges—The Voice of the People—Elections—Rights of the People—Church and State—The Criminal Procedure

Keywords: Criminal Justice, Election, Judgeship, Laws, Legal, Liberty, Separation of Church and State
ID = [76157]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 365-360. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Laws of the Nephites, Continued—The Division into Tribes—The Messianic Dispensation—The Final Convulsion

Keywords: Dispensation, Laws, Legal, Tribal Groups
ID = [76160]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 360-363. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Money of the Nephites—Their Coins—Barley the Standard of Value

Keywords: Barley, Coinage, Economics, Monetary System, Weights and Measures
ID = [76158]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 395-399. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Nephi in the Hands of the Lamanites—The Lands of Shemlon, Shilom, Helam, Amulon, Ishmael, Middoni, Jerusalem, etc.

Keywords: Amulon (Land of), Book of Mormon Geography, Helam (Land of), Ishmael (Land of), Jerusalem (Land of), Lamanite, Middoni (Land of), Shemlon (Land of), Shilom (Land of)
ID = [76164]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 364-367. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry , 1888.
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Personal Appearance of the Nephites—Their Beauty—Testimony of Remains Found—The Dark-Skinned Lamanites

Keywords: Lamanite, Nephite, Skin Color
ID = [76159]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 368-375. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Language of the Nephites—The Influence of the Egyptians—Nephite Words— Rameumptom—Liahona—Rabbanah—The Lamanite Tongue—Word Building

Keywords: Lamanite, Language, Liahona, Nephite, Rabbanah, Rameumptom, Reformed Egyptian
ID = [76161]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 376-381. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Nephite Proper Names—Bible Names—Sariah—Nephi—Sam—Melek—Jershon —Isabel—Aha, etc.—Prefixes and Suffixes

Keywords: Aha (Son of Captain Zoram), Isabel, Jershon (Land of), Melek (Land of), Name, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Onomastics, Sam (Son of Lehi), Sariah
ID = [76162]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 382-394. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Lands of the Nephites—Mulek and Lehi—Zarahemla and Nephi—The Wilderness—The Land of First Inheritance—The Journeys Northward—The Waters of Mormon—Lehi—Nephi

Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography, Land Northward, Land Southward, Nephi (Land of), Wilderness, Zarahemla (Land of)
ID = [76163]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 399-403. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Lands of the Nephites, Continued—Zarahemla—Jershon—Antionum— Manti—Gideon

Keywords: Antionum (Land of), Book of Mormon Geography, Gideon (Land of), Jershon (Land of), Manti (Land of), Nephite, Zarahemla (Land of)
ID = [76165]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 404-411. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Lands of the Nephites, Continued—Minon—Melek—Ammonihah—Noah— Sidom—Aaron—Lehi—Mulek—Bountiful—The South-west Border

Keywords: Aaron (Land of), Ammonihah (Land of), Book of Mormon Geography, Bountiful (Polity), Lehi (Land of), Melek (Land of), Minon (Land of), Mulek (Land of), Nephite, Noah (Land of), Sidom (Land of)
ID = [76166]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:23
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 411-416. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Lands of Antum, Teancum, Joshua, David, etc.—Cumorah—The Hills of the Nephites—The River Sidon

Keywords: Antum (Land of), Book of Mormon Geography, Cumorah, David (Land of), Joshua (Land of), Nephite, River Sidon, Teancum (Land of)
ID = [76167]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 417-424. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Religion of the Nephites—It is Stated by Nephi—The Priesthood and Ordinances Thereof—Baptism—Confirmation—Ordination—The Sacrament—Spiritual Gifts

Keywords: Baptism, Confirmation, Gift of the Holy Ghost, Gifts of the Spirit, Ordinances, Priesthood Authority, Priesthood Organization, Religion, Sacrament
ID = [76168]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 425-430. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Miracles Among the Nephites—The Miracles of Christ—John and the Three Nephites—Translations

Keywords: Gifts of the Spirit, John the Beloved, Miracles, Three Nephites, Translation/Transfiguration
ID = [76169]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 452-456. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Moriancumer—Building the Barges—The Finger of the Lord—The Appearing of the Savior—The Voyage

Keywords: Jaredite, Jaredite Barges, Jaredite Stones, Mahonri Moriancumer, Transoceanic Voyage
ID = [76174]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 430-435. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Prophecies Regarding the Savior—Their Completeness and Detail—Names and Titles Given to Christ

Keywords: Jesus Christ, Names of Jesus Christ, Prophecy
ID = [76170]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 435-441. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Nephite Apostates—The Order of Nehor—Amalekites—Amalickiahites— Amulonites—Abinadi’s Prophecy—The Gadiantons

Keywords: Amalickiahite, Amlicite, Amulonite, Apostasy, Gadianton Robbers, Korihor, Nehor, Prophecy, Sherem
ID = [76171]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 442-445. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Church Discipline Among the Nephites—Treatment of the Unrepentant—The Word of the Lord Regarding Transgressors—The Testimony of Moroni

Keywords: Church Discipline, Moroni (Son of Mormon), Repentance
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76172]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 446-452. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Discovery of the Jaredite Records—Coriantumr—Ether—The Dispersion at Babel—The Journey of the Jaredites—Atlantis

Keywords: Coriantumr (Jaredite), Ether (Prophet), Jaredite, Plates of Ether
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [76173]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 457-460. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Land of Promise—A Monarchy Established—The Kings of the Jaredites from Orihah to Omer—Akish—The Daughter of Jared

Keywords: Jaredite, Kingship
ID = [76175]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXXI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 460-464. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Kings of the Jaredites from Omer to Coriantumr—The Material Prosperity of this Race

Keywords: Jaredite, Kingship, Prosperity
ID = [76176]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Reynolds, George. “Chapter LXXXII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 465-471. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Judgments of God on the Jaredites—The Extinction of the Race—The Hill Ramah—Shiz and Coriantumr—Ether

Keywords: Coriantumr (Jaredite), Destruction, Ether (Prophet), Hill Ramah, Jaredite, Judgment, Shiz, Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [76177]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:24
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter V.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 26-29. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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The Status of Zoram—Law of Moses Respecting Bondmen—Character of Laban—Advantages of Taking Zoram into the Wilderness

Keywords: Laban, Law of Moses, Legal, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Servant, Servitude, Zoram (Servant of Laban)
ID = [76079]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter V.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 57-61. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Nephites and Lamanites Separate—The Nephites seek a New Home— Nephi Chosen King—He Builds a Temple—Instructs his People in the Arts of Peace—War with the Lamanites—The Sword of Laban—Nephi’s Death—Jacob, his Brother, Becomes the Chief Priest—Jacob’s Teachings on Marriage

Keywords: Jacob (Son of Lehi), Lamanite, Marriage, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Nephite, Polygamy, Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [76100]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter VI.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 30-34. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Return into Wilderness—Joy of Lehi and Sariah—Lehi a Visionary Man—Sariah’s Grief and Murmuring—Her Subsequent Testimony—Sacrifice and Burnt Offerings—The Brass Plates—Their Contents—Lehi a Descendant of Joseph—Value of These Records to his Descendants—Another Colony of Jews—Lost Knowledge of Hebrew Language and of God—Nephi a Great Benefactor—He and Brothers Again Required to Visit Jerusalem—Ishmael and Family—Laman and Lemuel Stir up Mutiny—Want to Return to Jerusalem—Bind Nephi—Intend to Leave him to Perish—Nephi’s Prayer—His Bands Burst—The Others Plead for him—Revulsion of Feeling on Part of his Brothers—Beg his Forgiveness—Rejoin Lehi and Sariah—Thanksgiving and Sacrifices and Burnt Offerings

Keywords: Brass Plates, Genealogy, Ishmael, Joseph (of Egypt), Laman (Son of Lehi), Law of Moses, Lehi (Prophet), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Sariah, Scripture, Thanksgiving, Vision
ID = [76080]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter VI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 62-65. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Condition of the Lamanites—Sherem, the First Anti-Christ—His Recantation and Dreadful End

Keywords: Antichrist, Apostasy, Jacob (Son of Lehi), Sherem
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [76101]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter VII.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 35-39. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Lehi’s Dream, or Vision—Rejoices Because of Nephi and Sam—Fears Concerning Laman and Lemuel—His Entreaties to Them—Gathered Seeds and Grain—Five Marriages—Lehi had Faithfully kept Commandments of the Lord—Nephi’s Development—Experience in Wilderness Necessary to Prepare Colony for the Future—Lehi Commanded to Travel—Miraculous Brass Ball, called Liahona—How it Operated—Travel in S. S. E. Direction—Hunt for Game—Led Through most Fertile parts of the Desert

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Arabia, Compass, Dream, Lehi (Prophet), Liahona, Marriage, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Tree of Life, Vision, Wilderness
ID = [76081]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter VII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 65-68. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Enos, the Son of Jacob—The Nephites and Lamanites of his Day—His Testimony and Prophecies

Keywords: Enos (Son of Jacob), Missionary Work, Prophecy, Repentance, Testimony
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [76102]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter VIII.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 40-44. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Travel in Desert—Kill Game by the Way—Uncooked Meat their Food—Nephi Breaks his Bow—Fails to Obtain Food—Laman and Others Complain Bitterly—Lehi, also, Murmurs—Nephi Keeps his Patience and Courage—Remonstrates with his Brothers—Makes a Wooden Bow—Lehi very Sorrowful—Sees Writing on the Brass Ball—Nephi Goes for Game in Direction Indicated—Company Filled with Joy through his Obtaining Food—Resume Travel—Ishmael’s Death—His Character—Outbreak and Rebellion of Part of his Children against Lehi and Nephi—Laman proposes to Kill the Two Latter—Attachment to Birthplace

Keywords: Liahona, Nephi (Son of Lehi)
ID = [76082]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter VIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 68-71. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Jarom—Omni—Amaron—Chemish—Abinadom—Amaleki—Mosiah—Review of Nephite History for Four Hundred Years

Keywords: Abinadom (Son of Chemish), Amaleki (Son of Abinadom), Amaron (Son of Omni), Chemish (Brother of Amaron), Jarom (Son of Enos), Mosiah the Elder, Omni (Son of Jarom), Prophet
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76103]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter X.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 48-51. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Travel in Easterly Direction—Land Bountiful—“Irreantum,” or Many Waters—Eight Years in Wilderness—Children Born—Diet of Raw Meat—Women Healthy and Strong as Men—Learn to Bear Journeyings Without Murmuring—“Araby the Blest”—Travelers’ description of Land—Company Rest for Many Days

Keywords: Arabia, Bountiful (Old World), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Wilderness
ID = [76084]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter X.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 79-86. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Reign of King Benjamin—The Progress of his People—His Last Great Speech—He Establishes the Church of Christ—All the People Covenant with God—Mosiah II. Anointed King

Keywords: Covenant, King Benjamin, King Mosiah, Kingship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76105]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XI.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 52-58. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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How Did They Travel?—Had They Vehicles?—Children of Israel used Covered Wagons—Did Lehi and Company use Camels?—Experience of Battalion in California—Custom in Abyssinia—Laman and Companions Never Forget Habits Acquired in the Desert—Transmitted Them to Posterity in Their New Home—Nephi Cherished True Knowledge of Civilization—Contrast Between the Two Brothers—Each Left his Impress upon his Nation

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Arabia, Laman (Son of Lehi), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Wilderness
ID = [76085]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 86-94. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Zeniff Returns to the Land of Nephi—His Treaty with the Lamanites—The Prosperity of the People of Zeniff—The Treaty Broken—War—Peace and Wars Again— The Death of Zeniff—Noah’s Wicked Reign—His Wars with the Lamanites—The Prophet Abinadi—His Terrible Message of God’s Wrath—He is Martyred—Alma—He Pleads for Abinadi—Is Cast Out—Flees to the Place of Mormon

Keywords: Abinadi (Prophet), Alma the Elder, King Noah, Land of Nephi, Martyrdom, Prophet, Warfare, Zeniff
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76106]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XII.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 58-63. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Nephi Practically the Leader—Commanded to Build a Ship—Directed to the Ore out of Which to make Tools—Makes a Bellows—Obtains Fire—Fault-finding and Ridicule of his Brethren—His Sadness and their Elation—They Grumble at and Reproach their Father and Him—He Reasons with Them—Enraged, They Attempt to Throw Him in the Sea—Nephi full of Power of God—They dare not Touch Him—They are Shaken Before Him—Fall down to Worship Him—Told by Nephi to Worship God—Nephi Shown by the Lord how he should work Timbers, etc.—Not Worked after the Manner taught by Men—Helped by his Brothers—Ship Finished—Laman and Others Acknowledge Nephi’s Ability to Build a Ship—Mountains as Places of Worship

Keywords: Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophet, Revelation, Ship, Temple
ID = [76086]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 95-98. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Waters of Mormon—Alma, Helam and Others Baptised Therein—The Church Organized—The King Warned—He Sends Troops—Alma and his People Flee to the Land of Helam—They Build a City

Keywords: Alma the Elder, Baptism, Covenant, Helam (Polity), King Noah, Ordinance
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76107]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XIII.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 64-68. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Lehi Commanded to Embark upon the Ship—Food Prepared for the Voyage—Jacob and Joseph—Did the Ship have Sails?—Voyages and Ships of Egyptians—Dancing and Rudeness of Laman and Others at Sea—Nephi Remonstrates—Is Treated Harshly and Bound Hand and Foot by his Brothers—Lehi and Sariah very Sick—Four Days of Terrible Tempest—Compass Would not Work—Driven Back Before the Wind—Terror of Laman and Lemuel—Nephi’s Patience and Self-Control—The Lord Shows Forth His Power—Nephi Released—The Ship Steered in Right Course—His Prayer Answered and Tempest Quelled—Reach the Promised Land

Keywords: Lehi (Prophet), Liahona, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Promised Land, Ship, Transoceanic Voyage
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [76087]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 98-102. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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King Noah’s Subjects Rebel—Gideon—The Lamanites Invade Lehi-Nephi—The Nephites Retreat—A Part Surrender—The New Terms of Peace—Noah is Burned to Death —Limhi made King—Noah’s Priests Escape—They seize some Lamanite Maidens— Another War—The Nephites Victorious—The King of the Lamanites wounded—Mutual Explanations

Keywords: Daughters of the Lamanites, King Limhi, King Noah, Priests of King Noah, Warfare
ID = [76108]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XIV.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 68-73. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Land and Pitch their Tents—Place of Landing—Cultivate the Ground—Good Crops—Find Animals of Every Kind—Also Ores—Raise Large Flocks and Herds—“Carneros de la Tierra”—Find the Horse—Was the Horse Extinct When the Whites Discovered America?—Reasons for Thinking it was not—Wild Horses Seen by Sir Francis Drake in 1579—Opinion of Professor Marsh—Horses Seen by Drake, not Spanish

Keywords: Ancient America, Book of Mormon Geography, Ecology, Horses, Nephi (Son of Lehi), South America
ID = [76088]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 103-109. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Bondage of the People of Limhi—An Expedition North—Finding of the Jaredite Records—The Arrival of Ammon—The People of Limhi Escape—The Pursuit— The Amulonites—The People of Alma—They are Brought into Bondage—Their Deliverance

Keywords: Ammon (Mulekite), Amulonite, Captivity, Jaredite, King Limhi, People of Alma
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76109]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XIX.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 95-102. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Two Distinct Nations—Intermingled—Mixed Blood in Lamanites—Nephi and Company Settled in an Earthly Paradise—Greatly Prospered—Law of Moses Observed—A Live Religion—Nephi Conversed with the Spirit of the Lord—Heard Voices of the Father and the Son—Understood the Gospel of Jesus—Simplicity and Plainness of His Teachings, Prophecies and Revelations Wonderful Extent and Variety of His Knowledge—Writes of the Days of the Savior as a Contemporary Might—Exactness of the Description of the Great and Abominable Church—Also the Events which Should Take Place in Connection with Zion—Only Two Churches—The Whore of all the Earth should Gather Multitudes among all the Nations of Gentiles to Fight Against the Church of the Lamb—Power of God Poured Out Upon the Latter, His Wrath Upon the Former—They who Fight Against the House of Israel shall War among Themselves and Fall into the Pit they shall Dig to Ensnare the People of the Lord—The Righteous Should Not Perish—Great Value of These Promises to the Latter-day Saints—Secret Combinations—Many Churches to be Built Up—Their Character—The Book of Mormon, How it should be Received—Churches Put Down the Power and Miracles of God—Preach up their own Wisdom and Learning—Contend One with Another—Grind the Poor—Literal Fulfillment as Latter-day Saints can Testify

Keywords: Gospel, Lamanite, Law of Moses, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Nephite, Prophecy, Prophet, Revelation
ID = [76093]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 123-131. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Mission of the Sons of Mosiah to the Lamanites—Their Journey in the Wilderness—Ammon Brought before King Lamoni—The Conflict at the Waters of Sebus— The Miraculous Conversion of Lamoni and his Family—Abish the Waiting Woman

Keywords: Abish, Ammon (Son of King Mosiah), Conversion, King Lamoni, King Lamoni',s Wife, Missionary Work, Sons of Mosiah, Vision
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76114]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XL.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 236-243. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Nephi Translated—His Son Nephi—Time of the Savior’s Coming—The Conspiracy to Slay the Believers—The Revelation to Nephi—The Promised Signs Appear— Increase of the Gadianton Robbers—War—Lachoneus Gathers all the People to One Land —The End of the Struggle

Keywords: Gadianton Robbers, Lachoneus, Nephi (Son of Helaman), Nephi the Disciple (Son of Nephi), Revelation, Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [76135]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 243-251. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Last Chief Judge Murdered and the Republic Overthrown—The Signs of the Savior’s Death Appear—A Terrible Storm—The Universal Darkness—The Unparalleled Destruction—The Terror of those Hours

Keywords: Destruction, Jesus Christ, Natural Disaster, Prophecy
ID = [76136]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 251-254. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Voice from Heaven—The Savior Testifies of Himself—Silence Throughout the Land—How oft would Christ have Gathered His People—The Darkness Departs

Keywords: Destruction, Jesus Christ, Natural Disaster, Prophecy
ID = [76137]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 254-257. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Christ Appears in the Land Bountiful—The Testimony of the Father—Jesus Calls Twelve Disciples—His Teachings to Them and to the Multitude

Keywords: Bountiful (Land of), Jesus Christ, Ministry of Christ, Sermon at the Temple, Twelve Disciples
ID = [76138]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 258-262. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Beatitudes - Divers Instructions and Cautions-On Forgiveness, Chastity, Charity, Etc.

Keywords: Beatitudes, Charity, Chastity, Law of, Forgiveness, Jesus Christ, Sermon at the Temple
ID = [76139]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 278-281. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry , 1888.
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The Sacrament Administered—The Savior’s Teachings Regarding it—He Confers on His Disciples the Power to Give the Holy Ghost—He Ascends into Heaven

Keywords: Covenant, Gift of the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, Ordinance, Priesthood Authority, Sacrament, Twelve Disciples
ID = [76144]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 263-266. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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On Alms-Giving—“After This Manner Pray Ye”—On Fasting, Integrity, Trust in God, Etc.

Keywords: Alms, Fasting, Jesus Christ, Prayer
ID = [76140]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 266-268. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Judge Not—The Beam and the Mote—“Beware of False Prophets”—Good and Evil Fruit—The House Built on the Rock

Keywords: False Prophets, Foundation, Judgment, Sermon at the Temple, Testimony
ID = [76141]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 269-272. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Page, 1888.
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The Fulfillment of the Mosaic Law—“Other Sheep Have I”—The Ten Tribes— The Events of the Latter Days

Keywords: Jesus Christ, Law of Moses, Other Sheep, Prophecy, Ten Tribes
ID = [76142]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XLVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 275-278. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Savior Heals the Sick—He Blesses the Children of the Nephites—Angels Minister unto them

Keywords: Angels, Children, Jesus Christ, Miracles
ID = [76143]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XV.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 74-77. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Animals and Vegetables Valuable to Lehi and Company—The Potato—Abundance of Fruits—Jerusalem Destroyed—Lehi’s Thankfulness for this Choice Land—A Land of Liberty to all who Should be Brought Here if they Would Serve God—Land to be Kept from Knowledge of Other Nations—Remarkably Fulfilled—Promises of the Lord to Lehi Concerning his Descendants and the Land—Present Condition of his Seed Predicted—Prophecies Concerning the Prophet Joseph Smith—Lehi a Great Prophet—Restrains his Children While Living—Rancorous Hatred After his Death Against Nephi—Enraged by his Admonitions—Propose to Kill Him

Keywords: Agriculture, Ancient America, Ecology, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophecy, Smith, Joseph, Jr.
ID = [76089]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 110-112. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Mosiah’s Good Reign—The Circumstances of his Advent—He Assembles the People—The Baptism of Limhi—Churches Organized Throughout the Land

Keywords: Baptism, Church Organization, King Limhi, King Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76110]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XVI.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 78-81. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Nephi’s Efforts to Save His Brethren—Nephi, Commanded of the Lord, Flees into the Wilderness—His Company—His Sisters—Carries Plates of Brass and other Records—The Liahona and Sword of Laban with Him—Nephi called a Liar and a Robber—Searches the Scriptures—Two Sets of Plates—Character of Records on Each—Plates made for a Special Purpose—Found by Mormon—Wisdom of God Greater than Cunning of Devil—The Prophet Joseph Delivered from a Snare

Keywords: Joseph (of Egypt), Large Plates, Liahona, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Obedience, Small Plates, Sword of Laban
ID = [76090]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 112-118. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Unbelief of the Youth of Zarahemla—The Younger Alma and the Sons of Mosiah—They Encourage the Persecutions Against the Church—They are Met by an Angel —His Message—Alma’s Awful Condition—His Vision and Testimony—The Changed Life of the Young Men

Keywords: Alma the Younger, Angel, Apostasy, Conversion, Messenger, Repentance, Sons of Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76111]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XVII.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 82-88. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Travel Many Days in the Wilderness—Call the Land Nephi—Did They Journey Northward?—Location of Land Nephi—River Sidon and Magdalena—Land of Zarahemla—Twenty-two Days’ Travel from Nephi—Did not Land of Nephi Extend Considerably South?—Zeniff’s Return to the Land of Nephi—Was that the Land Settled by Nephi, the First?—Mosiah, King of Zarahemla—Reasons for Thinking Nephi to be Distinguishing Name of an Extensive Region—Nephites Would Spread Over the Country in Four Hundred Years—Did Nephi and Company Travel as far North as Ecuador?—Followed by Lamanites—Jacob and Enos Respecting Lamanites—Nephi’s Description of the Land—Bolivia and Peru—Cities and Settlements Called After Founders—Additional Reasons for Thinking Nephi and Company did not Settle so far North—Boundaries of Lands Occupied by Nephites and Lamanites—South America Called Lehi, North America Called Mulek

Keywords: Ancient America, Nephi (Polity), Nephi (Son of Lehi), River Sidon, South America, Zarahemla (Polity), Zeniff
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76091]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 119-120. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Growth of the People in Zarahemla—They Build Many Cities—Mosiah’s Sons Desire to Take a Mission to the Lamanites—Mosiah Inquires of the Lord—The Divine Answer

Keywords: Covenant, King Mosiah, Missionary Work, Prayer, Sons of Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76112]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XVIII.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 88-94. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Travelers’ Descriptions of Land Once Occupied by Nephites—Cradle of an Imperial Race—The Productions of the Land in Modern Times Agree with Description of Same in Book of Mormon—Rapid Recovery from Effects of Disastrous Commotions and Wars Accounted for—Healthy Climate—Remarkable Longevity—Jacob, Enos, Jarom and Omni—Longevity of Indians in Ecuador and Peru

Keywords: Ancient America, Book of Mormon Geography, Native Americans, Nephi (Son of Lehi), South America
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [76092]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 121-123. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Mosiah’s Sons Refuse the Kingdom—He Grants the People a Constitution—The People to Elect their Rulers—Alma, the Younger, First Chief Judge

Keywords: Aaron (Son of King Mosiah), Ammon (Son of King Mosiah), Chief Judge, Himni (Son of King Mosiah), Judgeship, King Mosiah, Kingship, Omner, Sons of Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76113]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:20
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XX.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 103-105. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Nephi’s Commandment to Jacob Concerning Small Plates—Nephi Anoints a Man to be King—His Successors in Kingly Dignity Called by his Name—Patriarchal Government—Jacob Presided Over the Church—King Mosiah’s Mode of Life—Seers as Well as Kings—Was There a Change of Dynasty?—Kingly and Priestly Authority United in Mosiah

Keywords: Church Organization, Government, Jacob (Son of Lehi), King Mosiah, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophet, Recordkeeping, Seership, Small Plates
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76094]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 131-135. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Ammon and Lamoni Start for the Land of Middoni—They Meet the Old King— His Rage at Seeing Ammon—He Endeavors to Kill his Son—Aaron and his Brethren Liberated—A Sketch of their Labors and Sufferings—The Conversion of Lamoni’s Father and his Household

Keywords: Aaron (Son of King Mosiah), Ammon (Son of King Mosiah), Born Again, Conversion, King Lamoni, King Lamoni',s Father, Missionary Work
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76115]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Cannon, George Q. “Chapter XXI.” In The Life of Nephi, the Son of Lehi, 106-108. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
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Nephi Died—Example of his Life—Internal Evidence of Divinity of his Writings in the Spirit of God which Accompanies Them—An Eventful Career—Admirable in Every Relation—A Born Leader, Successful as a Mechanic, Miner, Seaman, Chemist, Metallurgist, Stockraiser, Agriculturist, Manufacturer and Statesman—Expanded Views of the Rights and Equality of Man—Religious Liberty—The End

Keywords: Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophet
ID = [76095]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1883-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:19
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 136-140. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The King Issues a Proclamation—The Results of the Labors of the Sons of Mosiah—The People of Anti-Nephi-Lehi—They Bury their Weapons of War—Are Massacred by the Thousand—They Remove to the Territory of the Nephites, who give them the Land of Jershon

Keywords: Anti-Nephi-Lehi, Conversion, Covenant, Jershon (Land of), Pacifism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76116]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 140-143. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Review of the Mission of the Sons of Mosiah—Its Importance and Great Length —Its Results to Both Races—The Dates of its Leading Occurrences

Keywords: Missionary Work, Sons of Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [76117]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 143-150. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Days of the Judges—Their Names and Reigns—The Heresy of Nehor—He Slays Gideon and is Executed—Amlici’s Rebellion—The Battle of Amnihu—The Conflict at the Crossing of the Sidon—A Third Battle

Keywords: Amlici, Amlicite, Gideon (Nephite), Judgeship, Kingship, Nehor, Warfare
ID = [76118]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 151-162. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Alma Resigns the Chief Judgeship—Nephihah Chosen—Alma Ministers in Zarahemla, Gideon, Melek and Ammonihah—Condition of the Last Named City—It Rejects the Message Alma Bears—An Angel Meets Him—Amulek—The Lawyer Zeezrom—The Great Controversy—Zeezrom Converted and Cast Out—The Martyrdom of the Believers— Alma and Amulek in Prison—Their Deliverance

Keywords: Alma the Younger, Ammonihah (Polity), Amulek, Gideon (Polity), Judgeship, Martyrdom, Melek (Polity), Ministry, Nephihah (Chief Judge), Zarahemla (Polity), Zeezrom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76119]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 181-183. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Alma’s Charge to His Sons—He Transfers the Records to Helaman—He Leaves This World—Zeezrom’s Latter Days—Helaman’s Ministrations

Keywords: Alma the Younger, Corianton (Son of Alma), Fatherhood, Helaman (Son of Alma the Younger), Shiblon (Son of Alma), Zeezrom
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [76124]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 163-167. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Zeezrom Sick with Fever—His Miraculous Recovery—The Destruction of Ammonihah—The Invasion of the Land of Noah—Zoram, the Nephite Commander, Seeks the Mind of the Lord—It is Given—Its Results—The War Ended—Alma’s Ministrations

Keywords: Alma the Younger, Amulek, Ministry, Warfare, Zoram (Nephite Captain)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76120]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 167-171. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Korihor, the Anti-Christ—His False Teachings and Blasphemy—He is Taken before Alma—Is Struck Dumb—His Miserable End—The Heresy Rooted Out

Keywords: Alma the Younger, Antichrist, Apostasy, Korihor
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76121]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 171-176. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Zoram and the Zoramites—Their Peculiar Heresy—The Land of Antionum— The Rameumptom—Alma’s Mission to these People—Those Who Receive His Teachings Persecuted—They Flee to Jershon

Keywords: Antionum (Land of), Apostasy, Jershon (Land of), Missionary Work, Rameumptom, Zoram (Nephite Apostate)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76122]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 177-180. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Another War—Moroni the Leader of the Nephites—The Tactics of the Lamanites—Zerahemnah—The Battle at Riplah—Defeat of the Lamanites

Keywords: Captain Moroni, Warfare, Zerahemnah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76123]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 183-191. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Amalickiah—His Apostasy and Treason—Moroni’s Title of Liberty—The Nephites Respond to His Call—Lehonti—He is Poisoned by Amalickiah—The King of the Lamanites Treacherously Slain—Amalickiah Marries the Queen and is Proclaimed King—A Disastrous Lamanite Raid

Keywords: Amalickiah, Captain Moroni, Lamanite, Lehonti, Warfare, Zoramite (Apostate Group)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76125]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 191-196. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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A Few Years of Peace—Teancum—The Contention Between Lehi and Morianton—Amalickiah’s Terrible Invasion—His Success—He is Stopped at Bountiful by Teancum—Teancum Slays Amalickiah—Ammoron Made King of the Lamanites

Keywords: Amalickiah, Ammoron, Assassination, Teancum (Nephite Captain), Warfare
ID = [76126]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 197-200. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Jacob the Zoramite—His Characteristics—The Strategy by Which Mulek Was Taken—The Fierce Battle between Jacob and the Nephite Forces—Jacob’s Death

Keywords: Jacob (Zoramite), Mulek (Polity), Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [76127]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 201-206. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The War in the South-west—Antipus—Helaman and His Two Thousand Sons— Their Valor and Faith—The Repulse of the Lamanites

Keywords: Antipus, Helaman (Son of Alma the Younger), Stripling Warriors, Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [76128]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXIV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 206-210. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Relief of Manti—The Overthrow of the Kingmen—Pachus Slain—The Struggle at Moroni—Teancum Slays Ammoron, but at the Cost of His Own Life— Teancum’s Noble Character

Keywords: Ammoron, Assassination, King-Men, Moroni (Polity), Pachus, Teancum (Nephite Captain), Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76129]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXIX.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 231-236. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Samuel, the Lamanite—His Mission and Prophecies—The Vain Attempt to Destroy Him—He Returns to His Own Country

Keywords: Prophecy, Prophet, Samuel the Lamanite, Zarahemla (Polity)
ID = [76134]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXV.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 210-214. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Peace Once More—The Results of the War—The Labors of Helaman—Shiblon Receives the Records—Hagoth, the Ship-builder—Another War—Moronihah—Pahoran’s Death—Contention Regarding the Chief Judgeship—Paanchi’s Rebellion—The Gadianton Bands—Assassination of Pahoran II.—Another Lamanite Invasion

Keywords: Chief Judge, Gadianton Robbers, Hagoth, Helaman (Son of Alma the Younger), Judgeship, Moronihah (Son of Captain Moroni), Paanchi, Pahoran, Pahoran (Son of Pahoran), Recordkeeping, Shiblon (Son of Alma), Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76130]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:21
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXVI.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 215-217. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Pacumeni Slain—Helaman Chosen Chief Judge—The Conspiracy to Slay Him— Kishkumen Killed—The Prosperity of the Nephites under Helaman

Keywords: Helaman (Son of Alma the Younger), Kishkumen, Pacumeni (Son of Pahoran), Warfare
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [76131]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXVII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 218-224. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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The Sons of Helaman—Nephi’s Righteous Rule—The Lamanites Again Invade Zarahemla—They Drive the Nephites into the Northern Continent—The Ministrations of Nephi and Lehi—The Manifestations of God’s Power in the City of Nephi—Aminadab—The Conversion of the Lamanites—Universal Peace

Keywords: Aminadab (Nephite Dissenter), Conversion, Lehi (Son of Helaman), Missionary Work, Nephi (Polity), Nephi (Son of Helaman)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [76132]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Reynolds, George. “Chapter XXXVIII.” In The Story of the Book of Mormon, 225-231. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry, 1888.
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Growth of Evil amongst the Nephites—The Increase of the Gadianton Robbers —Nephi’s Announcement of the Murder of the Chief Judge—The Discovery—Nephi Arrested—He is Proven Innocent—God’s Covenant with Him—Increase of Iniquity—A Terrible Famine—The Welcome Rain—The Trend to Death

Keywords: Chief Judge, Gadianton Robbers, Nephi (Son of Helaman), Prophecy, Seantum, SeeZoram
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [76133]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1888-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:22
Markham, Julie Cannon. “Chapter-a-Week Home Evening.” Ensign, February 1990.
ID = [49415]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1990-02-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2909  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:20
Samuelson, Cecil O. “Character.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, September 4, 2012.
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I hope in our time together this morning we can think carefully and seriously about what we really are and, more important, what we desire and need to become. I am satisfied that this aim of a BYU education—to build character—cannot be neglected or diminished because all of the aims and the mission of this great university are so intimately related to one another.

Keywords: Character
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69841]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-09-04  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:51
Monson, Leland H. “Characters and Teachings of the Book of Mormon.” Relief Society Magazine 38-44 (July 1952— February 1957).
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A six-year series of theology lessons that follow a chronological order of the Book of Mormon. Lessons analyze the structure and purposes of the book, the witnesses, its divine origin, the Jaredite nation, Lehi’s exodus, and prophecies concerning the Jews, Gentiles and Lamanites. “The Book of Mormon is ‘A New Witness for Christ’”

ID = [79281]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1952-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Tvedtnes, John A. “The Charge of ‘Racism’ in the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 11.
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Some critics of the Book of Mormon reject the ancient text on account of its supposedly racist commentary. In response to these critics, this article incorporates biblical examples and traditions to show how certain words and phrases that could be seen as racist were used to illustrate a larger message

ID = [456]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 32778  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:48
Tvedtnes, John A. “The Charge of ‘Racism’ in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.
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Determined to read the Book of Mormon in purely naturalistic nineteenth century terms, rather than as an ancient text, recent criticisms of that volume of scripture are offended by some descriptions of Lamanites in the text. This is particularly true when the Nephites describe the Lamanites in pejorative terms, such as blood-thirsty, idolatrous, ferocious, idle, lazy, and filthy. The question is whether these terms can be considered “racist,” and whether supposed “racist” attitudes of the Nephites are evidence against the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Curse; Lamanite; Nephite; Racism; Skin Color
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [32386]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 24105  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Stenson, Matthew Scott. “Charity as an Exegetical Principle in the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies Quarterly 62, no. 1 (2023): 83.
ID = [81625]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2023-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:30
Kimball, Stanley H. B. “Charles Anthon and the Egyptian Language.” Improvement Era 63, no. 10 (1960): 708-710, 765.
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This article states that knowledge concerning the Egyptian language was underdeveloped in the 1820s when Martin Harris presented the Book of Mormon characters and translation to Dr. Charles Anthon. While Anthon was a known Egyptian scholar of the period, he nonetheless lacked sufficient knowledge to vouch for the accurate translation of the characters.

Keywords: Anthon Transcript, Anthon, Charles, Egyptology, Language – Egyptian, Language – Reformed Egyptian
ID = [76801]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1960-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:59
Whiting, Michael F. “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life: Some Assembly Required.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, May 24, 2005.
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Keywords: Science
ID = [69484]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-05-24  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Welch, John W., and J. Gregory Welch. Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999.
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This book is a collection of more than 175 visual aids that promote deeper understanding and appreciation of the Book of Mormon. Designed for multiple use as study guides, handouts, and masters for creating projectable images, the charts convey a wealth of information that will enrich personal study and teaching.
Arranged in 15 sections, these charts consist of tables, diagrams, chronologies, flowcharts, bar graphs, pie charts, maps, and other effective schematics that represent Book of Mormon data in new and thought-provoking ways. General topics range from the history, doctrine, structure, and chronology of the Book of Mormon to its literary, cultural, and geographical features. Many charts highlight evidences for the authenticity of the record. Each chart is explained in a manner that will facilitate personal study and guide a teacher in what might be said when displaying the chart for group instruction or discussion.

ID = [6996]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size: 364966  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Foremaster, Philip. “Chastened, but Not Forgotten.” Improvement Era 26, no. 11 (1923): 995-997.
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This article argues that the Mexican people are a chosen race of people. According to Isaiah 29:4 they have been brought down in the dust. However, they are descendants of Joseph, through Lehi (1 Nephi 5:14) and they will be redeemed (2 Nephi 30:5-6).

Keywords: Isaiah (Book), Mexico, Native Americans, Seed of Joseph (Son of Jacob/Israel)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [76805]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1923-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:59
Insights. “A Chat with the New Editors of the Maxwell Institute Journals.” Insights 28, no. 5 (2008).
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Accompanying this issue of Insights is volume 17 (combining numbers one and two) of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies; however, readers will note that the Journal now carries a new name, the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture. In connection with this change, the Institute asked Andrew H. Hedges, an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU, to become the new editor, replacing Professor S. Kent Brown, who served as editor and associate editor for many years, and who recently retired from the university. The new associate editors are Grant Hardy, professor of history, University of North Carolina at Asheville; Steven C. Harper, assistant professor of Church History and Doctrine, BYU; Jennifer Lane, assistant professor of religion, BYU–Hawaii; and Kerry Muhlestein, assistant professor of Ancient Scripture, BYU.

Keywords: BYU; church history; doctrine; journals
ID = [66901]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-12-04  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:55
Peterson, Daniel C. “Chattanooga Cheapshot, or The Gall of Bitterness.” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 5, no. 1 (1993): 1-86.
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Review of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Book of Mormon (1992), by John Ankerberg and John Weldon.

Keywords: Anti-Mormon
ID = [144]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review,peterson  Size: 156016  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:29
Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 7: Checking on Long-Forgotten Lore.” In Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 7, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988.
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A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon
ID = [2071]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1988-01-02  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:24
Parry, Donald W. “The Cherubim, the Flaming Sword, the Path, and the Tree of Life.” In The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity, edited by John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry, 1–24. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
ID = [2636]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:59
Lubben, Mary. “Chest Is ‘Storehouse’ of Mormon History.” Church News 43 (8 December 1973): 10.
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Tells of a chest that belonged to Frederick Kesler in which was his prize possession—one page of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. It has been donated to the LDS church.

ID = [79282]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1973-12-08  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Dibble, Charles E. “Chiapas Ruins.” Improvement Era 44, no. 10 (1941): 599.
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A series of brief comments in which the author presents archaeological findings, architectural notes, and myths and legends that deal indirectly with the Book of Mormon. Dibble discusses the wheel, ancient irrigation methods, metals, Mexican and Mayan codices, Quetzalcoatl, ancient buildings, and numerous other related items. The seventh part covers ruins in Chiapas.

Keywords: Ancient America – Mesoamerica, Archaeology, Native Americans – Maya
ID = [76826]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1941-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:00
Smith, Lyle. “Chiasmus.” The Witness: Newsletter of the Foundation for Research on Ancient America 65 (May 1989): 4-6.
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Chiasmus is a Hebrew literary style that renders words, phrases, or ideas in an intentional order then immediately repeats them. It is prevalent in the Book of Mormon. Includes examples.

ID = [79283]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1989-05-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
BYU Studies, ed. Chiasmus and Book of Mormon Textual Studies. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on Hebraisms and chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, as well as articles discussing emendation of the text, naturalistic assumptions, wordprint analyses, variations between copies of the first edition, and more. Contents “Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey” John A. Tvedtnes “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon” John W. Welch “Does Chiasmus Appear in the Book of Mormon by Chance?” Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards “When Are Chiasms Admissible as Evidence?” Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards “Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon” Stan Larson “Naturalistic Assumptions and the Book of Mormon” Gary F. Novak “View of the Hebrews: Substitute for Inspiration?” Spencer J. Palmer and William L. Knecht “Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints” Wayne A. Larsen, Alvin C. Rencher, and Tim Layton “On Verifying Wordprint Studies: Book of Mormon Authorship” John L. Hilton “Variations between Copies of the First Edition of the Book of Mormon” Janet Jenson “Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon” Royal Skousen

ID = [75268]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:36
Heater, Shirley R. “Chiasmus Brings New Understanding of Geography.” Zarahemla Record 46 (December 1989): 3.
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Examines the chiastic structure of Alma 13:68-14:1 (RLDS versification) to better understand the geographical information contained in the passage.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [79284]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1989-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Hansen, Lorin K. “Chiasmus Caution.” New Era 1 (January 1973): 3.
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A letter to the editor points out that chiasmus was indeed known by English and German scholars before Joseph Smith’s time, but it is probable that Joseph Smith did not know of the form during his day.

ID = [79285]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1973-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in Alma 36.” Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989.
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John Welch displays the overall chiastic structure of Alma 36, suggests a detailed analysis of the text, traces the strands of repetition that weave paired sections tightly together, assesses the chapter’s degree of chiasticity, and compares the words and phrases of Alma 36 with the two other firsthand Book of Mormon accounts of Alma’s conversion. He suggests that there are many spiritual and intellectual implications to this study.

Keywords: Alma the Younger; Chiasmus; Conversion; Parallelism; Testimony
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [1527]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-reports,welch  Size: 79034  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:55
Welch, John W., ed. Chiasmus in Antiquity. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag, 1981.
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A team of scholars analyze chiasmus in Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and the Book of Mormon. Includes extensive bibliography and register of chiastic passages in many literatures.

ID = [77681]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1981-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Welch, John W. Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis. Hildesheim, Germany: Gerstenberg, 1981.
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A study of texts from biblical, classical, and other literatures

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Literary Aspects
ID = [30094]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1981-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Welch, John W., ed. Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
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The study of ancient literature has been enriched in the second half of the 20th century by the growing awareness and understanding of chiasmus in ancient literature. This form of inverted parallelism has been found in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and in many other ancient writings. The essays in Chiasmus in Antiquity, first published in Germany in 1981, examine the use and effect of chiasmus in the Old and New Testaments and the Book of Mormon, as well as in Sumero-Akkadian, Ugaritic, Talmudic, Greek, and Latin literatures. These essays have been reprinted in this first American edition because of their lasting value for the study of this intriguing literary form.

ID = [81715]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 11  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:36

Articles

Freedman, David Noel. “Preface.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81806]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Welch, John W. “Introduction.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81807]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Smith, Robert F. “Chiasm in Sumero-Akkadian.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81808]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Welch, John W. “Chiasm in Ugaritic.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81809]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Radday, Yehuda T. “Chiasmus in Hebrew Biblical Narrative.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81810]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Watson, Wilfred G. E. “Chiastic Patterns in Biblical Hebrew Poetry.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81811]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Porten, Bezalel. “Structure and Chiasm in Aramaic Contracts and Letters.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81812]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Fraenkel, Jonah. “Chiasmus in Talmudic-Aggadic Narrative.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81813]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81814]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the New Testament.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81815]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi,new-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in Ancient Greek and Latin Literatures.” In Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis, edited by Welch, John W. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
ID = [81816]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in Helaman 6:7-13.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography; Chiasm; Chiasmus; Inverted Parallelism; Lehi (Land); Mulek (Land); Parallelism
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [66509]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:39
Christenson, Allen J. “Chiasmus in Mayan Texts.” Ensign, October 1988.
ID = [48758]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1988-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12977  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:16
Christenson, Allen J. “Chiasmus in Mesoamerican Texts.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Ancient America; Chiasm; Chiasmus; Inverted Parallelism; Mesoamerica; Parallelism
ID = [66510]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:39
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies 10, no. 1 (1969): 69.
ID = [9701]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1969-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,welch  Size: 26354  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:52
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.” New Era 2 (February 1972): 6.
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Popular presentation of the discovery and significance of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, building on conclusions generally accepted by biblical scholars.

ID = [79286]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1972-02-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.” In Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, ed. Noel B. Reynolds, 33–52. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1982.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
ID = [37101]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1982-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,welch  Size: 30126  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:13
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994. Transcript of a lecture presented as part of the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series.
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Research into literary forms in ancient scriptures led John Welch to the original discovery in 1967 of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon. In this lecture, he discusses chiasmus, a poetic form in which the first stanzas descend to a crucial midpoint and the rest of the passage parallels the first part in a mirror-like fashion. This artistic convention, although found in Greek, Latin, and English writings, was more highly developed in Semitic or Hebrew literary works. It was largely undetected until about the middle of the nineteenth century. Welch explains that for the trained eye the Book of Mormon abounds in chiasms ranging from simple to quite complex.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Literature
ID = [8619]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-reports,welch  Size: 213  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:44
Welch, John W. “Chiasmus in the Book_of Mormon.” In Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, edited by Reynolds, Noel B. Reprint Edition. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996.
ID = [81798]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:40
Rowland, Linda. “Chiasmus Settles the Question.” Zarahemla Record 44 (August 1989): 6-7.
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Testimony that chiasmus in 2 Nephi 2 validates the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [79287]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1989-08-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
DeLong, Richard A. Chiasmus, Internal Evidence of Book of Mormon Authorship. Independence, MO: Foundation for Research on Ancient America, 1984.
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RLDS professor at Graceland College defends the authenticity of the Book of Mormon by showing examples of chiasmus.

ID = [77682]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1984-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Reynolds, Noel B. “Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a Case Study.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 193-210.
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Abstract: In this important paper, Noel Reynolds extends his 1980 argument for the chiastic structure of 1 Nephi to demonstrate that 2 Nephi can be seen as a matching structure with a similar nature. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that chiasmus is not a phenomenon that confines itself to the details of words and phrases at the level of scriptural verses but can extend to much larger units of meaning, allowing the rhetorical beauty and emphasis of their overall messages to shine more brilliantly when they are considered as purposefully crafted wholes.
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original. See Noel B. Reynolds, “Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a Case Study,” in “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Essays in Honor of John W. Welch, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2017), 333–50. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/to-seek-the-law-of-the-lord-essays-in-honor-of-john-w-welch-2/.].

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Topics > Literary and Textual Studies > Chiasmus
ID = [3456]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 35119  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:49
Church News. “Children Challenge Adults on Scriptures.” Church News 59 (4 February 1989): 5.
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Children of an LDS congregation challenged the adults to a scripture chase and won consistently.

ID = [79288]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1989-02-04  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Ensign. “Children Delight in the Book of Mormon.” Ensign January 2012.
ID = [59547]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1836  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:14
Maxwell, Neal A. “The Children of Christ.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, February 4, 1990.
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“We must, like the prodigal son, arise and go to our father and be prepared for that resplendent reunion.”

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Discipleship; Jesus Christ; Collection: Jesus Christ; Our Savior and Redeemer; Podcast: Come; Follow Me
ID = [68888]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1990-02-04  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:03:39
Maxwell, Neal A. “‘The Children of Christ’” In The Book of Mormon: Mosiah, Salvation Only Through Christ eds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 1–21. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1991.
ID = [36828]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1991-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 40065  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:58
Hopkin, Shon D. “The Children of Lehi and the Jews of Sepharad.” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 4 (2014): 147.
ID = [10865]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-04  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 32796  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:00
Meldrum, D. Jeffrey. “The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2003 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2003.
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Keywords: DNA; Genetics; Lehi (Prophet)
ID = [32392]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2003-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 55047  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:49
Nickyforuk, Nicholas. “Children Study the Book of Mormon.” Church News 50 (6 September 1980): 11.
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A family that is studying the Book of Mormon together describes the children’s reactions and the knowledge they received from reading it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [79289]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1980-09-06  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Juvenile Instructor. “Children’s Section—Testimonies Regarding the Book of Mormon.” Juvenile Instructor 52 (September 1917): 484-86.
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Students of Calvin S. Smith’s theology class in the Latter-day Saints University bear testimony of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79290]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1917-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Burgess, Allan, Max Jean, and Bette Molgard. A Child’s Book of Mormon Activity Book. 3 vols. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987.
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A clever activity book for children in three volumes. A Book of Mormon story is retold, then games and puzzles follow to reinforce the story.

ID = [77397]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Neeley, Dela Petersen. Child’s Story of the Book of Mormon. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1949-53. Published by Deseret Book in 1987.
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A presentation of the Book of Mormon to young children. The stories of the Book of Mormon are dramatized and told in a simple language.

ID = [77683]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Smith, Sherrie D. “Chinese Civilization and the Book of Mormon.” Zarahemla Record 13-14 (Summer and Fall 1981): 1-4.
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Contains ” ‘evidences’ that the Jaredites went across Asia through China”—shows parallels between the Chinese dragon and Quetzalcoatl, and between a lighted stone in Chinese tradition and the stones used in the Jaredite barges. The real name of the brother of Jared was never given, a practice that is still a tradition in China.

ID = [79291]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1981-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Heater, Shirley R. The Chinese Jaredite Connection. Independence, MO: Foundation for Research on Ancient America, 1984.
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A pamphlet that points out that pre-Christian Chinese ships recall the form of the Jaredite barges. Also, the recent “discovery of ancient stone anchors from Asia on the shores of the New World” suggests an early contact that may point to Jaredite migration.

ID = [78454]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1984-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Treat, Raymond C. “The Chinese Language and the Book of Mormon.” Zarahemla Record 12 (Spring 1981): 1-3.
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Examines work done by C. H. Kang who has shown biblical influence in the make-up of Chinese characters. The author suggests that there is evidence of the “Jaredite Pattern” in the characters.

ID = [80425]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1981-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Heater, Shirley R. “Chinese Stone Anchors in the New World.” Zarahemla Record 15 (Winter 1981-82): 1-3.
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A report and discussion of ancient stone anchors (approx. 2000-3000 years old) discovered off the California coastline and their possible connection to China. Argues for a Jaredite cultural influence in China and pre-Columbian oceanic crossings.

ID = [79292]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1981-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Maxwell, Neal A. “A Choice Seer.” in Brigham Young University 1985-1986 Devotional and Fireside Speeches, 113-21. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1986.
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An essay about the Prophet Joseph Smith as a seer. Referring to the translation of the Book of Mormon, the author writes that “since Joseph, who knew the ‘particulars’ [of the translating process], chose not to describe them in detail, we cannot presently be definitive about methodology”

ID = [81084]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:03
S., L. P. “The Choice Seer—Who Is He?” The Rod of Iron 1 (June 1924): 22-24.
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Analyzes 2 Nephi 3 and finds that a choice seer will be a blessing to the descendants of Lehi. The choice seer may be Jesus Christ, whose work was the Book of Mormon.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [80426]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1924-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Maxwell, Neal A. “‘A Choice Seer’” Ensign, August 1986.
ID = [47715]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 37389  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:08
Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “‘Choose Eternal Life’ : Agency in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36225]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:28
Gee, John. “‘Choose the Things That Please Me’: On the Selection of the Isaiah Passages in the Book of Mormon.” In Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch, 67—91. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [67044]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/25/24 10:18:21
Lane, Jennifer Clark. “Choosing Redemption.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [35811]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 28804  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:05
Wilcox, S. Michael. Choosing the Fullness: Wickedness or Righteousness. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988.
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A meditation on the “two ways” theme, which contrasts fruits leading to happiness or misery. Includes a chapter on “the Nephites’ rejection of the good” Discusses scriptural warnings and extols the Zion society described in 4 Nephi.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [77684]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Felt, Marie F. “A Chosen Servant: Mormon.” Instructor 99 (April 1964): 149-51.
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For a juvenile audience, an account of Mormon’s role in compiling the records of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [78861]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1964-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Bell, Elouise M. “Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes among the Nephites: A Novel.” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 2 (1990): Article 13.
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Review of Tennis Shoes among the Nephites: A Novel (1989), by Chris Heimerdinger.

ID = [69]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1990-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 4405  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:25
Crowe, Chris. “Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent.” FARMS Review of Books 8, no. 1 (1996): Article 17.
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Review of Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent (1995), by Chris Heimerdinger

ID = [236]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 4285  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:35
Hall, Brent. “Chris Meimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword: A Novel.” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 4 (1992): Article 49.
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Review of Gadiantons and the Silver Sword: A Novel (1991), by Chris Heimerdinger.

ID = [124]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 3124  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:28
Nibley, Hugh W. “Christ among the Ruins.” Ensign, July 1983.
ID = [46307]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1983-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign,nibley  Size: 19754  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:50:06
Nibley, Hugh W. “Christ among the Ruins.” Ensign, July 1983. 14, 16–19.
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Part 2 of “Souvenirs from Lehi’s Jerusalem,” which was submitted to the Ensign. Subtitled, “A Comparison of the Old World Early Christian ‘Forty-day Ministry’ Story with the New World 3 Nephi Accounts.”

This is a version of the material published as the second part of “Two Shots in the Dark: 1. Dark Days in Jerusalem; 2. Christ among the Ruins,” in Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, UT: RSC, 1982), 103–41. A version of this essay has been reprinted in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 8:407–34.
A comparison of the Old World early Christian “forty-day ministry” story with the New World 3 Nephi accounts.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Characters > Jesus Christ
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Jesus Christ > Forty-Day Ministry
ID = [1023]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1983-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:26
Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 19: Christ Among the Ruins.” In The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 8. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989.
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Originally printed as an article in the Ensign.
A comparison of the Old World early Christian “forty-day ministry” story with the New World 3 Nephi accounts.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Characters > Jesus Christ
ID = [2099]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:25
Miller, Adam S., and Joseph M. Spencer, eds. Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
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The Book of Mormon’s Jacob chapter 7 focuses on a dramatic showdown between Sherem, a defender of the Mosaic tradition, and Jacob, a prophet who views the Mosaic law as dead in light of what he calls “the doctrine of Christ.” The papers collected in this volume offer theological readings of this Book of Mormon chapter that draw on Jacob 7’s structure and literary details to illuminate key themes like law, family, prayer, mourning, and messianic time. Includes contributions from Jana Riess, Kimberly M. Berkey, Adam S. Miller, Jacob Rennaker, Jeremy Walker, Joseph M. Spencer, Jenny Webb, and Sharon J. Harris.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [81716]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 7  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:36

Articles

Spencer, Joseph M. “Introduction.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81817]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Miller, Adam S., and Joseph M. Spencer. “Summary Report.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81818]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:41
Riess, Jana. “‘There Came a Man’: Sherem, Scapegoating, and the Inversion of Prophetic Tradition.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81819]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Miller, Adam S. “Reading Signs or Repeating Symptoms.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81820]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Berkey, Kimberly M. “The Lord’s Prayer(s) in Jacob 7.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [81821]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Rennaker, Jacob. “Divine Dream Time: The Hope and Hazard of Revelation.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81822]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Spencer, Joseph M. “Weeping for Zion.” In Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7, edited by Miller, Adam S., and Spencer, Joseph M. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2018.
ID = [81823]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:42
Holbrook, Brett L. “Christ and Divine Parenthood in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36234]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Spencer, Joseph M. “Christ and Krishna: The Visions of Arjuna and the Brother of Jared.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 23 (2014): 56-80.
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A series of striking parallels between the vision of Arjuna recorded in the Bhagavad Gita and the vision of the brother of Jared in the Book of Mormon suggests the need for comparative work to be done on these two volumes of world scripture. This paper works through three interrelated points of contact between the two visions. First, it considers the epic context of each vision, context that provides conditions for the possibility of religious revolution. Second, it looks in detail at the respective religious revolutions produced by the two visions: the Hindu shift toward devotion and the Jaredite shift toward faith. Third, it outlines the theological significance of the principal difference such similarities bring into focus—namely, that between the conceptions of incarnation at work in Hinduism and Mormonism. Where the incarnational logic associated with Arjuna’s vision suggests that embodiment is temporary and instrumental for the divine, the corresponding incarnational logic associated with the brother of Jared’s vision suggests that embodiment is permanent and essential for the divine. The striking parallels between the visions of Arjuna and the brother of Jared thus help to highlight crucial but subtle theological differences between the respective religions associated with those visions.

Keywords: Arjuna; Bhagavad Gita; Brother of Jared; Buddhism; Jesus Christ; Theology; World Religion
ID = [3310]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 61210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:38
Welch, John W. “Christ and Temples in the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994. Transcript of a lecture presented as part of the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series and prepared by the staff of the Portland Institute of Religion.
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John Welch proposes that the mission of Christ and the significance of temples intersect in the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon teaches the surpassing importance of the temple. There are twenty-seven explicit references to the temple in the Book of Mormon, as well as allusions to the temple found in words and phrases. Temple themes in the Book of Mormon can be better appreciated through an understanding of the law of Moses, including festivals and ritual observances.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Christ; temple
ID = [8620]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-reports,welch  Size: 213  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:44
Swift, Hales. “Christ as Father and Son in Mosiah 15.” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 30, 2020.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6465]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-04-30  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 10388  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Menzies, James S., Merle P. Guthrie, and Richard M. Reid. Christ in America. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1965.
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A tract that briefly recites the account of Jesus’ ministry to the Lehites. Offers archaeological and other evidences to substantiate the event.

ID = [77685]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1965-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Tanner, N. Eldon. “Christ in America.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 1975.
ID = [13468]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1975-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 15755  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:14:27
Tanner, N. Eldon. “Christ in America.” Ensign, May 1975.
ID = [42684]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1975-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 15614  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:52
Petersen, Mark E. Christ in America. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1983.
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Writes of archaeological and historical evidence of “the Great White God” of ancient America. The coming of a tall, blue- eyed, bearded man from heaven was documented in several different groups of Indians and Polynesians. Petersen proposes that this great white god was Jesus. This can be documented in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77686]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1983-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Hunter, Milton R. Christ in Ancient America. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1959.
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Chapters deal with Quetzalcoatl—the white bearded God—Christ the good shepherd, Teotihuac‡n, and the plumed serpent. These topics are carefully related to Jesus’ visit to the ancient Americas. Copiously illustrated.

ID = [77687]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1959-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Curtis, Delbert W. Christ in North America. Tigard, OR: Resource Communications, July 1993.
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Suggests that Book of Mormon lands are in the United States of America, particularly in the area of New York State. The narrow neck of land mentioned in the book lies between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The Spirit bears witness to the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and a knowledge of the geography is not necessary.

ID = [77688]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Marler, Ezra L. Christ in the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1956.
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An anthology of scriptural quotations from the Book of Mormon. The brief work is divided into two main sections—the predictions of Christ’s birth in the holy land and his visit to the Americas. No commentary is supplied by the compiler.

ID = [77689]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1956-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Roberts, B. H. “Christ in the Book of Mormon.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Significant Articles from the Pages of the Improvement Era, eds. Doyle L. Green, and Marba C. Josephson, 241-46. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1959.
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Discusses the pre-mortal spirit life of Christ; the revelation of Christ to the brother of Jared; the Nephite knowledge of Christ through visions and revelations; and the visit of the risen Christ among the Nephites.

ID = [81031]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1959-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:00
Black, Susan Easton. “Christ in the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994. This transcript of a video lecture was prepared by the staff of the Portland Institute of Religion.
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Susan Easton Black discusses insights into the nature and mission of Jesus Christ that can be gained by examining the 101 names the Book of Mormon uses to describe him, such as Lord, Messiah, and Eternal Judge. She describes the book’s focus on the atonement and bears powerful testimony of its effects in her life and in the lives of others.

ID = [8601]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-reports  Size: 213  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:44
Roberts, B. H. “Christ in the Book of Mormon: His Appearance on the American Continent.” Improvement Era 27, no. 3 (1924): 188-192.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ
ID = [76932]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1924-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:06
Roberts, B. H. “Christ in the Traditions of American Native Races.” Improvement Era 20, no. 7 (1917): 571-597.
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The author correlates Native American traditions and beliefs with the birth and death of Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon account of Christ’s coming to the western hemisphere.

Keywords: Crucifixion, Jesus Christ, Birth of, Jesus Christ, Death of, Native Americans, Savior in America
ID = [77011]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1917-05-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:03
Evans, John Henry. “The Christ of the Book of Mormon.” Relief Society Magazine 15 (April 1928): 179-90.
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The Book of Mormon presents a clearer understanding of Jesus Christ than does the Bible. It teaches regarding his pre-earth life, his Godhood, his godly attributes, and his appearance to the Nephites.

ID = [80427]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1928-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Durham, G. Homer. “The Christ of the Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, March 7, 1978.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon; Jesus Christ
ID = [68520]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1978-03-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:03:19
Holmes, Samuel L. “The Christ Story in the Book of Mormon.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 101, no. 40 (5 October 1939): 630-31, 638-39.
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The Nephite people knew of Christ, his birth, mission, and death. When Mexico was conquered in 1520, Cortez found a fallen Christian Church, but the descendants of Lehi had not entirely forgotten their great white god and his wondrous miracles and teachings, which had become the worship of Quetzalcoatl. Thinking he had returned, the people welcomed the Spaniards.

ID = [81302]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1939-10-05  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:12
Roberts, B. H. “Christian Argument Applied to Mormonism.” Liahona 26 (5 February 1929): 389-93.
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The angel Moroni visited Joseph Smith telling him of the records that contain an abridged history of the ancient inhabitants of America and the fullness of the gospel. Joseph Smith received the plates and translated them using the Urim and Thummim. Witnesses testified of the plates.

ID = [79295]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1929-02-05  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Davies, Horton. Christian Deviations: Essays in Defense of the Christian Faith. London: SCM Press, 1954.
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A polemical attack on various religious groups that the author considers heretical. Chapter seven is devoted to Mormonism. He finds repugnant the LDS “doctrine of progressive revelations” and considers the Book of Mormon to be a forgery that plagiarizes the Bible, Shakespeare and the Westminster Confession of Faith. This work is reviewed in B.015.

ID = [77691]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Mitchell, William J. A Christian Looks at Mormonism. Mesa, AZ: William J. Mitchell, 1977.
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A polemical work against Mormonism. The author notes what he feels are numerous “difficulties” in accepting the claims of the Book of Mormon, such as King James English, plagiarism, domesticated animals before Columbus, contradictions with the Bible, lack of archaeological evidence, and the mongoloid nature of native Americans.

ID = [77398]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1977-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Hemingway, Donald W. Christianity in America before Columbus?. Salt Lake City: Hawkes, 1988.
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Treats the symbols, practices, and beliefs of ancient America that appear to be related to Christianity that were prevalent before Columbus discovered America. Includes the cross; the use of keys, stones, and mountains in their temples; baptism; sacrament; fasting; prayer; life after death; the creation; the flood; the tower of Babel; the ten lost tribes; and many others. This work is reviewed in W.059.

ID = [77692]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Church News. “Christianity Known to Ancient Indians.” Church News 23 (21 February 1953): 12.
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The American Indians possessed “a well-developed concept of Christianity which had degenerated when the white man arrived” on the scene.

ID = [79296]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1953-02-21  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Christmas Quest.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star vol. 112, no. 1, January 1950.
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Reprinted in Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 17.
EDITORS NOTE: With Christmas still fresh in our memories, Professor Hugh Nibley, in this article especially prepared for the readers of the Millennial Star, gives us an interesting insight into what the world looks for in the celebration of Christmas. Nibley briefly looked into the question of whether it is possible that the bewildering profusion of Christmas observances might contain, among other things, a latent longing for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Jesus Christ > Birth, Christmas
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Jesus Christ > Childhood
ID = [855]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1950-01-01  Collections:  bom,millennial-star,nibley  Size: 5585  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:15
Cannon, George Q. “Christopher Columbus.” Juvenile Instructor 1, no. 8 (1866): 29.
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Praises Christopher Columbus and shows how he potentially fulfilled a prophecy by Nephi.

Keywords: Columbus, Christopher, Nephi (Son of Lehi), Prophecy
ID = [75798]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1866-04-15  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:02
Juvenile Instructor. “Christopher Columbus.” Juvenile Instructor 1 (15 April 1866): 29.
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Praises Christopher Columbus and shows how he fulilled a prophecy by Nephi.

ID = [79297]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1866-04-15  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Merrill, Hyde M. “Christopher Columbus and the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 69, no. 2 (1966): 96-98, 135-136.
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This article discusses Lehi’s prophecy regarding “a man among the Gentiles” (Columbus) who would be “wrought upon” by the Holy Ghost and travel “forth upon many waters” (1 Nephi 13:12). The author presents evidence from Columbus’s journals and letters that supports the claim that he was an inspired man who accomplished “a thing more divine than human to have found that way never before known to go to the east where the spices grow” (Sebastian Cabot).

Keywords: Columbus, Christopher, Inspiration, Lehi (Prophet), Prophecy
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [76821]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1966-02-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:00
Heater, Shirley R. “Christopher Columbus: Man of Vision and Faith.” Zarahemla Record 63 (September/October 1992): 1-4.
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A brief biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus, showing how he fulfills the prophecies in the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi 3:147, RLDS versification). The article also discusses the timing of Columbus’s voyage and why the Americas had been kept hidden (2 Nephi 1:16-21, RLDS versification).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [79298]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Heater, Shirley R. “Christopher Columbus: Man of Vision and Faith Part II.” Zarahemla Record 64 (November/December 1992): 2-4.
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This article explores themes in Columbus’s writings. Columbus saw himself to be, in part, a fulfillment of Isaiah 11:10-12. He also expected to find the “other sheep” spoken of in John 10:16. The article also shows the accuracy of Nephi’s vision regarding Columbus.

ID = [79299]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Young, Levi Edgar. “Christopher Columbus: Was His Work Designed by God?” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 64, no. 45 (6 November 1902): 705-8.
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A testimony that Columbus was inspired by God, to support 1 Nephi 13:10-12. Includes a brief summary of Columbus’s life, highlighting points that show he was inspired, and quotes Columbus’s words that God made him the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, which is spoken of in the book of Revelation, and showed him the spot where to find it.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [81318]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1902-11-06  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:13
Carlsen, Earl W. Christ’s Answer to the Atheist, to the Jew: Who Wrote It?. Amherst, WI: Palmer, 1987.
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The Bible and its followers do not provide adequate proof that God exists or that Christ is his Son. The Book of Mormon does provides that proof and testiies of the divinity of Christ. The author presents 52 evidences that support the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, including the use of chiasmus, engraved metal plates, cultural similarities between the ancient Near East and ancient Mesoamerican culture, and word-print analyses. This work is reviewed in H.352.

ID = [77690]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Turner, Rodney. “Christ’s Church in Ancient America.” Ensign, March 2000.
ID = [54275]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 16210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:51:21
Terry, Ronald E. “Christ’s Healing Influence in the Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, June 7, 2005.
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The Book of Mormon does testify of Christ and His healing influence. I am grateful for the authors and the preservers of the plates who made it possible for us to read these marvelous accounts of the Lord extending the arms of His love to those in need.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Jesus Christ; Collection: Jesus Christ; Our Savior and Redeemer; Podcast: Jesus Christ; Our Savior and Redeemer
ID = [69486]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2005-06-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:48
Strathearn, Gaye, and Jacob Moody. “Christ’s Interpretation of Isaiah 52’s ‘My Servant’ in 3 Nephi.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 18, no. 1 (2009): 4-15.
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Many interpretations exist about who the “suffering servant” in many of Isaiah’s writings might be. Interpretations for this figure include Isaiah himself, the people of Israel, Joseph Smith, and Jesus Christ. Without arguing against these understandings of the servant, this paper claims that Christ, in 3 Nephi 20–23, personifies the servant as the Book of Mormon. Both the servant and the Book of Mormon are portrayed as filling the same “great and marvelous” works in the gathering of Israel, reminding the Jews of their covenants with God, and bringing the Gentiles to Christ.

Keywords: Covenant; Interpretation; Jesus Christ; Savior; Suffering Servant
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [3229]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,old-test  Size: 39458  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:33
Roberts, B. H. “Christ’s Personal Appearance in the Western Hemisphere: The Supreme Message of the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 20, no. 6 (1917): 477-499.
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The author writes of a monument of Christ erected on the border of Argentina and Chile as a sign of peace between the two nations, and of another monument of Christ, the LDS temple, built in Hawaii. “Those who believe in the Book of Mormon also believe that this group of islands was colonized by certain adventurous people from the mainland of America [Hagoth, Alma 63].” These two monuments have been erected on a land that Christ once visited.

Keywords: Mesoamerica, North America, Savior in America, Sermon at the Temple, South America
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76913]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1917-04-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:05
Fry, Evan A. “Christ’s Visit to America.” Saints’ Herald 92 (7 April 1945): 316-17.
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The Savior’s ministry among the ancient inhabitants of America represents “the only explanation of many facts of American archaeology and native tradition” It also clarifies why the Spanish conquistadors were welcomed by people who already possessed Christian traditions.

ID = [79293]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1945-04-07  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Stapley, Delbert L. “Christ’s Visit to the Western Hemisphere Following His Resurrection.” Relief Society Magazine 40 (March 1953): 211-15.
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Christ’s visit to the American continent brought hope and assurance of eternal life. There had been ample evidence of his crucifixion and death as foretold by Samuel the Lamanite. Mormon considered this story of great importance to Jews and Gentiles of the latter days. The witnesses of the New World testified and supported the New Testament’s account of the Savior’s crucifixion and resurrection.

ID = [79294]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Reynolds, George. Chronological Chart of Nephite and Lamanite History. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1956.
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A full color chart with a historical time line dealing with the Nephites and Lamanites.

ID = [77693]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1956-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Flanders, W. C. “A Chronological Data of the Book of Mormon.” N.p.,n.d.
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The whole title of the pamphlet is as follows: “A Chronological Data of the Book of Mormon Based on the Cycles, Eclipses, Earthquakes, and Comets, Including the Principal Events, Together with the Kings of the Old World, and the Whereabouts of the Lost Tribes and Their Tribes and Their Kings Who Reigned Contemporaneously”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [77399]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Larson, Stan. “Chronological dates are recorded at the bottom of the pages in the Book of Mormon. How reliable are these dates? Are there any that need to be corrected?” Ensign, September 1977.
ID = [43796]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1977-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4546  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:49:48
Miner, Alan C. “Chronological List of English Reader-Friendly Sources on Hebrew-like Literary Language and Structures That Relate to the Book of Mormon.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, A Covenant Record of Christ’s People, Volume 1: Introduction, 179-242. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Chronological List of English Reader-Friendly Sources on Hebrew-like Literary Language and Structures That Relate to the Book of Mormon

ID = [76699]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:53
Miner, Alan C. “Chronological List of Pertinent Writings on Bible Quotations and Language Uses That Are Part of the Book of Mormon.” In Step by Step Through the Book of Mormon, A Covenant Record of Christ’s People, Volume 1: Introduction, 243-261. Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central/Cedar Fort, Inc., 2017.
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Chronological List of Pertinent Writings on Bible Quotations and Language Uses That Are Part of the Book of Mormon

ID = [76700]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:53
Miner, Alan C. “A Chronological Setting for the Epistles of Mormon to Moroni.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 3, no. 2 (1994): 94-113.
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Although chapters 8 and 9 of the book of Moroni (Mormon’s epistles to Moroni) were placed with Mormon and Moroni’s abridgment by Moroni sometime between the years ad 401 and 421, these chapters were not written at that time. The insertion into the text of these epistles was done for doctrinal reasons; however, mixed in with the doctrinal message are certain facts and phrases that deal with their historical-chronological setting. By analyzing the specific chronological clues contained within Mormon’s epistles and comparing them with his abridged record of the final years of the Nephite nation, we can create a set of chronological time frames which then can be compared to construct a reasonable historical setting of ad 375 to 376.

Keywords: Chronology; Epistle; Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [2874]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 39718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:10
Spackman, Randall P. “Chronological Structure and Symbolism in the Small Plates of Nephi - Presentation Handout.” Paper presented at the 2018 FairMormon Conference. August, 2018.
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Keywords: Chronology; Recordkeeping; Small Plates of Nephi
ID = [32629]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 36482  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Washburn, Jesse A. “Chronology Chart: Bible and Book of Mormon Events.” Provo, UT: n.p., 1928.
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Contains four maps and a long fold-out chronological chart showing sacred and secular events from both the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77694]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1928-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Rich, Wendell O. “A Chronology of the Book of Mormon.” Logan: n.p., 1949.
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A chart that shows the chronology of events that take place in the Book of Mormon. It portrays the Nephites, Lamanites, and Mulekites on a timeline extending from 600 B.C. to A.D. 450, and shows corresponding world events in Greece, Rome, and Babylon.

ID = [77400]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1949-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Peterson, H. Donl. “Church Discipline in the Book of Mosiah.” In The Book of Mormon: Mosiah, Salvation Only Through Christeds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 211–226. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1991.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [36839]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1991-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 29350  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:58
Jolley, Terry V. “Church Education System: Book of Mormon Student Competencies.” M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, August, 1988.
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As LDS students study the Book of Mormon in seminary, the author suggests that key scriptures in a sequential reading (as opposed to a conceptual or topical approach) be identified so that the teacher can measure the student competency (i.e., understanding) in four areas: historical, doctrinal, missionary application, and personal application.

ID = [79300]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Church News. “Church Filming Most Ambitious Movie Ever.” Church News 57 (18 July 1987): 8-9.
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Description of LDS ilm “How Rare a Possession” The ilm’s purpose is to motivate individuals to “read, study, and live the principles of the Book of Mormon”

ID = [79301]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1987-07-18  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Kimball, Spencer W. “Church Growth and Lamanite Involvement.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, November 7, 1972.
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Keywords: Church Growth
ID = [68340]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1972-11-07  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:03:08
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Ted D. Stoddard, and T. Jeffery Cottle. Church History in Black and White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission to Latter-day Saint Historical Sites. Volume 3 in the Occasional Papers Series. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1995.
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Volume 3 in the Occasional Papers Series In 1907, when photography was still considered magical, George Edward Anderson set forth on a momentous journey across the United States. En route to a proselytizing mission in England, Anderson—arguably the most important photographer of Latter-day Saint historical sites to date—spent a year capturing vivid images of the sites of such transcendent events as the First Vision, the restoration of the priesthood, the publication of the Book of Mormon, and the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. This volume assembles these photographs with Anderson’s 1907 diary, which allows reader to appreciate the photographs in their historical, cultural, and religious setting. ISBN 0-8849-4998-2

ID = [33365]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:02
Stubbart, J. M. “The Church in America Before Christ; Its Authority and Priesthood.” Saints’ Herald 76 (6 November 1929): 1349-51.
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Writes that the Nephite church before Christ had all the ordinances and authority necessary for salvation. He continues that the Book of Mormon leaders of the church before Christ held the Melchizedek Priesthood and could not have possessed the Aaronic Priesthood for they were not direct descendants of Aaron.

ID = [80428]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1929-11-06  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Romney, Marion G. “The Church in Mexico.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 1958.
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This article testifies that the Book of Mormon is the promised sign that the work of the Lord has begun among all nations. “We may draw a lesson from the history of the Mexican people and their progenitors,” as it is outlined in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Mexico; Missionary Work; Testimony
ID = [27236]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1958-04-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,general-conference  Size: 15927  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:13
Ensign. “The Church in the Lamanite World: Scanning the Special Programs Created to Meet Lamanite Needs.” Ensign December 1975.
ID = [42967]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1975-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 2762  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:54
Ensign. “Church Magazines to be Polywrapped, Mailed Together.” Ensign October 1988.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [48790]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1988-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1165  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:16
Ensign. “Church Museum Exhibits Book of Mormon Art.” Ensign April 1988.
ID = [48556]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1988-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1926  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:14
Nicholson, John. “The Church of Christ Organized Anciently on this Continent—Prophecy Fulfilled and Fulfilling—Preparatory Work for the Gathering of All Israel Commenced—Present Condition of the Nations Foretold—Exhortation to Righteousness and the Avoidance of Hypocrisy and Idolatry.” In Journal of Discourses, Volume 22. 1882, 17–27.
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Discourse by Elder John Nicholson, delivered in the Salt Lake Assembly Hall, Sunday Afternoon, February 6, 1881. Reported By: John Irvine.

ID = [29438]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1881-02-06  Collections:  bom,jnl-disc  Size: 33634  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:27
Bennion, Lowell L. The Church of Jesus Christ. Salt Lake City: Deseret Sunday School Union, 1941.
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A series of Sunday School lessons that presents a history of the Church of Jesus Christ and recalls the story of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is a new revelation and the events that brought about the Book of Mormon were foretold in the book itself.

ID = [78455]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1941-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Richards, A. LeGrand. “‘Church of the Air’ Address: A New Witness for Christ.” Church News 27 (7 December 1957): 10.
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The Book of Mormon is a witness for Christ of great value. Quotes Ezekiel 37:15-20, John 10:16, and discusses Christ’s visit to the Nephites as recorded in 3 Nephi.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [78820]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1957-12-07  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Griffiths, Casey Paul. “The Church of the Lamb of God.” In The Things Which My Father Saw, eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
ID = [35260]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 39283  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:31
McKay, David O. “Church President Presents Five Marks to Prove a Claim Authentic.” Church News29 (9 May 1959): 3, 12, 16.
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Presents five guidelines to determine the authenticity of the New Testament and the Book of Mormon: (1) the claim must be a sensible fact, appealing to the physical senses, (2) there must be witnesses of the fact, (3) the witnesses must be reputable, (4) there must be a memorial/monument to the claim, (5) and the memorial/monument must date back to the claim itself.

ID = [79302]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1959-05-09  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
McKay, Robert A. “Church Proclaims Falsehood.” The Evangel 39 (October 1992): 1.
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Finds fault with LDS pageant “The Man Who Knew” by discussing Lucy Harris’s negative attitude toward Joseph Smith and his work.

ID = [79303]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1992-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Harper, Bruce T. “The Church Publishes a New Triple Combination.” Ensign, October 1981.
ID = [45557]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1981-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 34007  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:50:00
McKay, David O., and Richard L. Evans. “Church Scholars Speak.” Improvement Era 63, no. 12 (1960): 956, 958.
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This article compiles a number of excerpts from previously published articles by LDS authors that cover such Book of Mormon-related topics as the “fifth gospel,” the stick of Joseph, language, the significance of scientific discoveries, and the manner in which Alma speaks to our day.

Keywords: Fifth Gospel, Language, Scholarship, Stick of Joseph
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76744]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1960-12-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:56
McKay, David O., and Richard L. Evans. “Church Scholars Speak: Excerpts from Significant Articles in Past Issues of The Improvement Era.” Improvement Era 63, no. 12 (1960): 956-958.
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A number of excerpts from previously published articles by LDS authors cover such Book of Mormon related topics as the “fifth gospel,” the stick of Joseph, language, the significance of scientific discoveries, and the manner in which Alma speaks to our day.

Keywords: Alma the Younger, Language - Reformed Egyptian, Scholarship, Stick of Joseph
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76745]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1960-12-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:56
Wycherly, Carolyn. “Church Scriptures Being Translated by Immigrant.” Church News 41 (November 20, 1971): 11.
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An announcement that the LDS scriptures are being translated into Romanian by Dr. Emia F. Perry. She began the translation in 1951 before becoming a member of the Church.

ID = [79304]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1971-11-20  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Cowan, Richard O. “The Church Shall Bear My Name and Be Built upon My Gospel.” In The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This Is My Gospel, eds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gift of the Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
ID = [36747]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 21026  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:53
Bricherstaff, George. The Church Story: Book 1 . . . From Sacred Grove to Land of Zion. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1974.
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A storybook for young readers contains full-page colored illustrations. Chapters 2-6 relate the story of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [78456]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1974-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Bickerstaff, H. George. The Church Story: From Sacred Grove to Land of Zion. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1974.
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An illustrated book for children that retells church history concerning the coming forth of the Book of Mormon from the angel Moroni’s visit to its publication.

ID = [78457]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1974-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Ensign. “Church Welfare Agencies Brought Together as One.” Ensign June 1973.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [41718]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1973-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1811  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:46
Church News. “Church-Produced Tapes of Book of Mormon Available.” Church News 58 (12 November 1988): 7.
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An announcement that a new set of audiocassette tapes of the Book of Mormon, produced by the Church, are now available.

ID = [79305]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1988-11-12  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Nibley, Hugh W. “Churches in the Wilderness.” In An Approach to the Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 6, 3rd ed. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988.
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Originally printed in An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1957).
Long before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, Robert Eisler called attention to the existence of societies of ancient sectaries, including the early Christians, who fled to the desert and formed pious communities there after the manner of the order of Rekhabites (Jeremiah 35). More recently, E. Kdsemann and U. W. Mauser have taken up the theme, and the pope himself has referred to his followers as “the Wayfaring Church,” of all things. No aspect of the gospel is more fundamental than that which calls the Saints out of the world; it has recently been recognized as fundamental to the universal apocalyptic pattern and is now recognized as a basic teaching of the prophets of Israel, including the Lord Himself. It is the central theme of the Book of Mormon, and Lehi’s people faithfully follow the correct routine of flights to the desert as their stories now merge with new manuscript finds from the Dead Sea and elsewhere. And while many Christian communities have consciously sought to imitate the dramatic flight into the wilderness, from monastic orders to Pilgrim fathers, only the followers of Joseph Smith can claim the distinction of a wholesale, involuntary, and total expulsion into a most authentic wilderness. Now, the Book of Mormon is not only a typical product of a religious people driven to the wilds (surprisingly we have learned since 1950 that such people had a veritable passion for writing books and keeping records) but it actually contains passages that match some of the Dead Sea Scrolls almost word for word. Isn’t that going a bit too far? How, one may ask, would Alma be able to quote from a book written on the other side of the world among people with whom his own had lost all contact for five hundred years? Joseph Smith must have possessed supernatural cunning to have foreseen such an impasse, yet his Book of Mormon explains it easily: Alma informs us that the passages in question are not his, but he is quoting them directly from an ancient source, the work of an early prophet of Israel named Zenos. Alma and the author of the Thanksgiving Scroll are drawing from the same ancient source. No wonder they sound alike.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Dead Sea Scrolls
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch
ID = [2044]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:22
Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 16: Churches in the Wilderness.” In The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 8. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989.
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Originally printed in An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1957).
Long before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, Robert Eisler called attention to the existence of societies of ancient sectaries, including the early Christians, who fled to the desert and formed pious communities there after the manner of the order of Rekhabites (Jeremiah 35). More recently, E. Kdsemann and U. W. Mauser have taken up the theme, and the pope himself has referred to his followers as “the Wayfaring Church,” of all things. No aspect of the gospel is more fundamental than that which calls the Saints out of the world; it has recently been recognized as fundamental to the universal apocalyptic pattern and is now recognized as a basic teaching of the prophets of Israel, including the Lord Himself. It is the central theme of the Book of Mormon, and Lehi’s people faithfully follow the correct routine of flights to the desert as their stories now merge with new manuscript finds from the Dead Sea and elsewhere. And while many Christian communities have consciously sought to imitate the dramatic flight into the wilderness, from monastic orders to Pilgrim fathers, only the followers of Joseph Smith can claim the distinction of a wholesale, involuntary, and total expulsion into a most authentic wilderness. Now, the Book of Mormon is not only a typical product of a religious people driven to the wilds (surprisingly we have learned since 1950 that such people had a veritable passion for writing books and keeping records) but it actually contains passages that match some of the Dead Sea Scrolls almost word for word. Isn’t that going a bit too far? How, one may ask, would Alma be able to quote from a book written on the other side of the world among people with whom his own had lost all contact for five hundred years? Joseph Smith must have possessed supernatural cunning to have foreseen such an impasse, yet his Book of Mormon explains it easily: Alma informs us that the passages in question are not his, but he is quoting them directly from an ancient source, the work of an early prophet of Israel named Zenos. Alma and the author of the Thanksgiving Scroll are drawing from the same ancient source. No wonder they sound alike.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Dead Sea Scrolls
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch
ID = [2096]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:25
Nibley, Hugh W. “Churches in the Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 169–201. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
Display Abstract  

Originally printed in An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1957).
Long before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, Robert Eisler called attention to the existence of societies of ancient sectaries, including the early Christians, who fled to the desert and formed pious communities there after the manner of the order of Rekhabites (Jeremiah 35). More recently, E. Kdsemann and U. W. Mauser have taken up the theme, and the pope himself has referred to his followers as “the Wayfaring Church,” of all things. No aspect of the gospel is more fundamental than that which calls the Saints out of the world; it has recently been recognized as fundamental to the universal apocalyptic pattern and is now recognized as a basic teaching of the prophets of Israel, including the Lord Himself. It is the central theme of the Book of Mormon, and Lehi’s people faithfully follow the correct routine of flights to the desert as their stories now merge with new manuscript finds from the Dead Sea and elsewhere. And while many Christian communities have consciously sought to imitate the dramatic flight into the wilderness, from monastic orders to Pilgrim fathers, only the followers of Joseph Smith can claim the distinction of a wholesale, involuntary, and total expulsion into a most authentic wilderness. Now, the Book of Mormon is not only a typical product of a religious people driven to the wilds (surprisingly we have learned since 1950 that such people had a veritable passion for writing books and keeping records) but it actually contains passages that match some of the Dead Sea Scrolls almost word for word. Isn’t that going a bit too far? How, one may ask, would Alma be able to quote from a book written on the other side of the world among people with whom his own had lost all contact for five hundred years? Joseph Smith must have possessed supernatural cunning to have foreseen such an impasse, yet his Book of Mormon explains it easily: Alma informs us that the passages in question are not his, but he is quoting them directly from an ancient source, the work of an early prophet of Israel named Zenos. Alma and the author of the Thanksgiving Scroll are drawing from the same ancient source. No wonder they sound alike.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Dead Sea Scrolls
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Mahaway, Mahujah, Mahijah
ID = [1658]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley  Size: 67938  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:03
Gabbott, Mabel Jones. “Circle of Fire.” Children’s Friend 62 (August 1963): 16-17.
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A children’s story of Nephi and Lehi and the miracles that took place inside the Lamanite prison.

ID = [79307]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1963-08-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Gabbott, Mabel Jones. “Circle of Fire.” Friend 7 (January 1977): 28-29.
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A children’s story of Nephi and Lehi who were protected by a circle of fire in a Lamanite prison and converted all the Lamanites who were present.

ID = [79306]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1977-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Tvedtnes, John A. “Cities and Lands in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4 no. 2 (1995).
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The practice of naming lands by a chief city of the land correlates well with authentic Old World practices.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography; City; Land
ID = [2919]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 9450  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:13
Tvedtnes, John A. “Cities and Lands in the Book of Mormon.” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by Welch, John W., and Melvin J. Thorne, 164-168. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography; City; Land
ID = [75678]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 8331  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:56
Cannon, Elizabeth Rachel. The Cities of the Sun: Stories of Ancient America Founded on Historical Incidents in the Book of Mormon. Second and Enlarged ed. Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1911.
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The end justifies the means, so these stories are designed to increase interest in the Book of Mormon. Hundreds of books have been written founded on the Bible, and there are some wonderfully colorful accounts of the founding of Christianity in Judea, Alexandria, and Rome. It is surprising that more has not been done dealing with the ancient history of the western world. Several of these stories were first published in the Improvement Era, and acknowledgment is made to that magazine for the encouragement it extended to the author, who traveled twice to Mexico and excavated among the ruins there to gain information at first hand. If any boy or girl, after perusing these pages, is inspired to turn direct to the beautiful and simple language of the Book of Mormon itself, the purpose of “The Cities of the Sun” has been accomplished.

Keywords: Abinadi (Prophet), Alma the Elder, Ammon (Son of King Mosiah), Ancient America, Book of Mormon-Fiction, Captain Moroni, Ether, Gadianton Robbers, Hagoth, Jaredite, King Lamoni, King Noah, Missionary Work, Secret Combination
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75419]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1911-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:44
Porter, Elizabeth Rachel Cannon. The Cities of the Sun; Stories of Ancient America Founded on Historical Incidents in the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1910.
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Fictional stories of several Book of Mormon characters and groups, including King Noah and Amulon, Alma and Abinadi, General Moroni, the Gadianton robbers, and Ammon. Pictures of artifacts and architecture are included.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [78458]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1910-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:12
Samuelson, Cecil O. “Citizenship, Research, Teaching: The BYU Way.” University Conference, Brigham Young University, August 26, 2008.
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…my hope is that we can as colleagues across campus think faithfully and diligently together about how we can make inquiry, creativity, and research a more effective part of how we not only transmit known information but, more important, how we enhance teaching by participating personally in the process of discovery and the creation of new knowledge.

Keywords: BYU; Citizenship; Teaching
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [69645]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2008-08-26  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:49
Jakeman, M. Wells. “The City Bountiful Found?” University Archaeological Society Newsletter 22 (23 August 1954): 4-6.
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Defends the thesis that Bountiful was located in the “northernmost part of Central America, including the Isthmus of Tehuantepec”

ID = [80429]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1954-08-23  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Interpreter Foundation. “The City of Lehi-Nephi Name Change – by J. Theodore Brandley.” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 9, 2017.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [4859]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-08-09  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 2659  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:13:03
Stevenson, W. Fleming. “A City of Saints.” Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 7 (April 1880): 406-16.
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Description of a visit to Salt Lake, with a report of conversations with LDS members. Tells about the Book of Mormon, and includes references to the Spaulding fabrication.

ID = [78862]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1880-04-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Civic Standards for the Faithful Saints.” Ensign, July 1972.
ID = [41315]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1972-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 15443  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:43
Helmick, Daniel M. “Claims of the Book of Mormon Critically Examined from Evidence Found in the Book Itself.” Salt Lake City: n.p., 1906.
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A polemical work against the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon contradicts itself and has poor grammar showing it to be the work of an illiterate man. It is full of errors, absurdities, and gross anachronisms.

ID = [77695]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1906-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Winchester, Benjamin. “The Claims of the Book of Mormon Established—It Also Defended.” The Gospel ReRector 1 (15 March 1841): 105-23.
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The American continent was once inhabited by an enlightened people as ancient relics and archaeologists have testified. The author quotes Priest, Davis, Boudinot, and others who believe the aborigines of America belong to the house of Israel. The Book of Mormon gives an account of the destruction of the once enlightened people of the American continent. Its purpose is to clarify false doctrine, to bring people to the Holy One of Israel, to gather the lost ones of Israel, and restore the truth to the earth.

ID = [80430]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1841-03-15  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Farmer, Deborah. “Clair Poulson, Samuel, Moroni’s Young Warrior (tapes) and Samuel, Gadianton’s Foe (tapes).” FARMS Review of Books 8, no. 1 (1996): Article 18.
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Samuel, Moroni's Young Warrier (1993), by Clair Poulson.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [237]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 8125  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:35
Treat, Raymond C. “Classic Maya Population: An Example of Convergence.” Zarahemla Record 1 (February 1978): 5.
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Considers archaeological evidence that shows Classic Maya population levels to be concurrent with those found in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79308]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1978-02-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Houston, Stephen D. “Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs and Practices of an Ancient American People.” BYU Studies 38, no. 4 (1999): 43-64.
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In the last five years, dramatic advances in deciphering ancient Maya writing have unveiled the Classic Maya as, above all, a people of faith. The Maya gloried in their closeness to the supernatural. They worshiped many gods, built temples to house images of supernatural beings, developed complex theologies of spirit and matter, and envisioned a world permeated by living essences. Now many of these beliefs and practices lie open to our gaze. Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing allows us to begin to understand the Classic Maya concept of the nature of human existence, their system of morality, and their religious practice and how such practices melded with political or dynastic concerns.

Keywords: Ancient America; Hieroglyphics; Maya; Mesoamerica
ID = [11768]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1999-01-04  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 31106  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
Treat, Raymond C. “Classic Maya Subsistence: Another Example of Convergence.” Zarahemla Record 3 (December 1978): 5, 8.
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Examines Classic Maya food to show a convergence between Mesoamerican archaeology and the Book of Mormon. Archaeologists are learning that population levels were too high to be supported by slash-and-burn agriculture.

ID = [79309]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1978-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Nibley, Hugh W. “Classics from the Past: Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 20 no. 1 (2011).
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Responding to an inquiry from a member of a different faith about why the Book of Mormon was translated into the English of the King James Version of the Bible, Nibley discusses the use of biblical language in contemporary society, citing in particular the language of prayer and the use of King James English in the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This article also serves as a platform for Nibley to discuss other issues raised about the Book of Mormon, especially in reference to the King James version of the Bible.

ID = [3263]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,nibley  Size: 16113  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:35
Nibley, Hugh W. “Classics from the Past: Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 69-72.
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Nibley’s response to a query was printed in the Church News section of the Deseret News, 29 July 1961, 10, 15. It was reprinted in Saints’ Herald 108 (9 October 1961): 968–69, 975.
Responding to an inquiry from a member of a different faith about why the Book of Mormon was translated into the English of the King James Version of the Bible, Nibley discusses the use of biblical language in contemporary society, citing in particular the language of prayer and the use of King James English in the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This article also serves as a platform for Nibley to discuss other issues raised about the Book of Mormon, especially in reference to the King James Version of the Bible.

Keywords: Dead Sea Scrolls; King James Bible; Literary; Literature; Translation
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics > Literary Style
ID = [1659]  Status = Type = Journal Article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:03
Peterson, Janet. “Clay’s Present for Jesus.” Ensign, March 1990.
ID = [49446]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1990-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 5641  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:20
Swift, Hales. “Cleansing One’s Garments (Jacob 1).” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 16, 2020.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [6456]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-03-16  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 5337  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Cleansing the Inner Vessel.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 1986.
ID = [15701]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12624  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:14:33
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Cleansing the Inner Vessel.” Ensign, May 1986.
ID = [47567]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12507  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:07
Cracroft, R. Paul. “A Clear Poetic Voice.” Ensign, January 1984.
ID = [46504]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1984-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 13477  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:50:08
Bigelow, Christopher K. “Clerks, Leaders, and Members: Working Together.” Ensign, December 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [40565]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10952  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
Ensign. “Clerks, Leaders, and Members: Working Together.” Ensign December 2000.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [40570]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2000-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 3125  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
McBride, W. C. “The Cliff Dwellers and The Mormon Theory.” Pacific Monthly (June 1907): 697-713.
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Written by a non-Mormon, the bulk of the article describes the terrain of the American Southwest. Last few pages deal with Book of Mormon origins. The author associates the migration of the Jaredites with a statement by Josephus, and he speculates on where the Book of Mormon peoples landed and settled.

ID = [80431]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1907-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Parry, Donald W. “Climactic Forms in the Book of Mormon.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Climax; Literature; Parallelism; Poetry
ID = [66528]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:40
Deane, Morgan. “Climbing a Tree to Find a Fish: Insurgency in the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2016 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2016.
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Keywords: Gadianton Robbers; Insurgency; Robbers; Thieves; Warfare
ID = [32552]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2016-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,fair-conference  Size: 43234  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Riddle, Chauncey C. “Code Language in the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1992.
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Recognizing that individual languages use certain conventions or codes to communicate messages, Chauncey Riddle looks at language used in the Book of Mormon to illuminate what might be hidden meanings. The code language of the Book of Mormon points toward Jesus Christ. His calling and his attributes can be found in the names used in scripture, in words used in ordinances, and in words of worship and blessing. All of this was done so that the trace of the true Savior would not become lost among the children of Israel, try as they might to avoid it.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Literature
ID = [8579]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-reports  Size: 209  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:44
Porter, Larry C. “The Colesville Branch and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies 10, no. 3 (1970): 365-382.
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With the many branch, ward, and stake organizations which currently bedeck the international scene of Mormonism, it is understandable that the activities of a small branch of Saints at Colesville, Broome County, New York, could have been virtually forgotten with the passage of time. Yet, at the close of 1830, it was one of some five principal branches serving as focal points for the gathering of the faithful in the new Church. Fayette, Seneca County, New York, served as the headquarters of the Church, while other branches existed at Colesville; Kirtland and Mentor, Geauga County, Ohio; and Warrensville, Cayahoga County, Ohio. The Colesville Branch was personally inaugurated by the Prophet Joseph Smith and its membership played a significant role in the initial years of the new dispensation. Drawn by Joseph’s affirmation of communication with the heavens and the supportive evidences contained in the Book of Mormon, the Colesville Saints gave impetus to the missionary zeal of the Restoration and provided elements of needed leadership for the rapidly expanding faith. From the very inception of “Mormonism,” the Saints comprising the Colesville Branch linked their lives inexorably with the Restored Gospel and the volume which had inspired their conversion, the Book of Mormon. They relinquished family, friends, homes and material comforts in pursuit of their testimonies. The Prophet Joseph Smith was not unmindful of these sacrifices. On August 22, 1842, while making entries in the Book of the Law of the Lord, he paid tribute to certain of the Colesville membership, which might well be applied to them all.

Keywords: Colesville; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Missionary Work; NY; Smith
ID = [9677]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1970-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 1080  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:52
Paulsen, David L. The Collected Writings of David L. Paulsen, Volume 2: The Nature of God. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2018.
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David L. Paulsen, professor emeritus of the Brigham Young University Philosophy Department, is one of the most prominent LDS theologians. His writings span an impressive array of topics. BYU Studies has collected all his articles, book chapters, and reviews and arranged them by topic in three impressive ebooks, of which this is the second. In this second volume, readers will find Paulsen’s writings on the nature of God, including early Mormon modalism and other myths, the social model of the Trinity in 3 Nephi, the corporeality of God, divine determinateness, and the logically and ontologically possible proofs of God’s existence.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [75352]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies,theology  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:41
Sorenson, John L. “A Collection of References to Trans-Oceanic Contacts with the Americas Before the Recognized Discoveries.” New-England Antiquities Research Association 67 (1971-72): 78-80, 38-40.
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A bibliography of transoceanic travels to America prior to Columbus. The work has been superseded with later works.

ID = [78863]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1971-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Avant, Gerry. “Collector Finds Rare Book, Autographed Statement by Prophet.” Church News 55 (23 June 1985): 10.
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A first edition of the Book of Mormon that contains Joseph Smith’s signature as well as an original statement in the prophet’s handwriting have been acquired by Brent Ashworth. (Editor’s note: the signature and statement have been proven to be forgeries.)

ID = [79310]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1985-06-23  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Worthen, Kevin J. “‘College Song’” Commencement, Brigham Young University, April 26, 2018.
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I can predict with a high degree of certainty that there will be many times in your postgraduate life when you will face decisions that will ultimately be determined by whether you are motivated by pride and riches on the one hand or whether you are moved to act consistently with truths that resonate in your heart and in your mind on the other.

Keywords: BYU; Pride; Unity
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [70109]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2018-04-26  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:53
Mooney, Richard E. Colony Earth. Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Crest,n.d.
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Lists the Book of Mormon and its group of Israelites as one explanation for the beginnings of early American civilizations. Names archaeological aspects that fit the Book of Mormon (the Popol Vuh, cement, and metal plates), but points out certain animals do not fit the scheme of the book.

ID = [77696]  Status = Type = book  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Tvedtnes, John A. “Colophons in the Book of Mormon.” In Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, edited by Sorenson, John L., and Melvin J. Thorne, 32-37. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991.
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In the heading before chapter 1 of 1 Nephi, we find Nephi’s outline of his record. It begins, “An account of Lehi and his wife Sariah, and his four sons,” and ends, “This is according to the account of Nephi; or in other words, I, Nephi, wrote this record.” Sometimes these signposts appear before a section to tell us what is to come. Other times, they appear at the end to explain, recap, or mark the end of what has been said. For lack of a better word, I call them colophons, though technically colophons are notes or guidelines after a text.

Keywords: 3 Nephi; 4 Nephi; Alma (Book); Colophon; Helaman (Book); Mosiah (Book); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Words of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
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Tvedtnes, John A. “Colophons in the Book of Mormon.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Colophon; Editorial Technique; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Structure
ID = [66446]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:35
Nelson, Fred W., Jr. “The Colossal Stone Heads of the Southern Gulf Coast Region of Mexico.” Society for Early Historic Archaeology Newsletter 103 (12 August 1967): 2-8.
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Analyzes the features of several stone heads discovered in Veracruz and speculates that they might belong to the Jaredite culture. A map, table, and pictures are supplied.

ID = [80432]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1967-08-12  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Nibley, Hugh W. “Columbus and Revelation.” The Instructor.
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Reprinted in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 8.
Relevant to 1 Nephi 13:11–12, this brief article gives historical evidence showing that Columbus was moved upon by the Holy Ghost.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Characters > Christopher Columbus
ID = [874]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Columbus and Revelation.” Instructor 88 (October 1953): 319-20.
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Reprinted in CWHN 8:49-53. Relevant to 1 Nephi 13:11-12, this brief article gives historical evidence showing that Columbus was moved upon by the Holy Ghost.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [79311]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 2: Columbus and Revelation.” In The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 8. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989.
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Originally printed in The Instructor.
Relevant to 1 Nephi 13:11–12, this brief article gives historical evidence showing that Columbus was moved upon by the Holy Ghost.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Characters > Christopher Columbus
ID = [2082]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:24
Morris, Nephi Lowell. “Columbus and the Book of Mormon.” Deseret News Church Section (7 July 1928): 6.
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Examines Nephi’s prophecy of “a man among the Gentiles” who crossed the waters in light of Columbus’s life and Joseph Smith’s knowledge of Columbus. Discusses Columbus’s feeling of divine guidance and concludes that he is the man to whom Nephi referred.

ID = [79312]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1928-07-07  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Hunt, C. J. “Columbus and the Three Nephites.” Saints’ Herald 76 (19 June 1929): 739-40.
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Hunt reprints a story from Life and Voyages of Columbus. New York: The University Society Publishers. 1:270-72. One of Columbus’s men was alone in the forest of Cuba and reported seeing three men “of as fair complexions as Europeans” in long white dresses or tunics reaching to their knees. Hunt identifies the three men as the Three Nephites.

ID = [79313]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1929-06-19  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
McKeever, William. “Columbus or Mahonri Moriancumer?” Mormonism Researches (Fall 1992): 3-4, 8.
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Quotes from Ether and Orson Pratt to discuss the impracticalities of Jaredite barges.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [79314]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Hardy, Grant R. “Columbus: By Faith or Reason?” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Columbus; Christopher; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Nephi' s Dream; Prophecy; Transoceanic Voyage; Vision
ID = [66452]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:36
Hinckley, Helen Jones. Columbus: Explorer for Christ. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1977.
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A short biography on Christopher Columbus in light of the prophecy written about him by Nephi.

ID = [77697]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1977-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Garr, Arnold K. “Columbus: Fulfillment of Book of Mormon Prophecy.” In Christopher Columbus: A Latter-day Saint Perspective. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.
ID = [36815]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 8097  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:57
Pearson, Cyril Drew. “Columbus: ‘The Spirit Wrought upon the Man’” Improvement Era 52, no. 10 (October 1949): 640-42, 672, 674.
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Presents the events and inspirations of Christopher Columbus’s life. From his birth Columbus certainly felt the call of the Lord and God’s protective hand over all things. Surely it was Columbus whom Nephi foretold would cross the waters.

ID = [81280]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1949-10-01  Collections:  bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:11
Hart, John L. “Combat Trends of World, Urges Pres. Benson.” Church News 56 (21 December 1986): 3, 7.
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Combat the world’s trends by reading and studying the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon prepares and persuades people to go on missions.

ID = [79315]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1986-12-21  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Ricks, Eldin. Combination Reference: A Simple and Orderly Arrangement of Selected References to the Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1943, 1969.
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An arrangement of scriptural references to the standard works of the Church organized in dictionary format by subject. Subjects include angels, antiquity of the gospel, apostasy, baptism, Bible, confirmation, and death.

ID = [77698]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1969-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Ludlow, Daniel H. A Combination Student and Teacher Guide to the Reading of the Book of Mormon: A Course of Study of the Melchizedek Priesthood Quorums of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1961.
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A study guide for the Melchizedek priesthood quorums of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lessons encourage reading the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77401]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1961-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Starks, Arthur E. Combined Concordances for the Scriptures. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1962, 1975.
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This volume comprises A Concordance Supplement for the Inspired Version of the Holy Scriptures, A Complete Concordance to the Book of Mormon, and A Complete Concordance to the Doctrine and Covenants. These concordances are based on the RLDS scriptures and use their chapter-verse divisions. Formatted alphabetically by words and key phrases.

ID = [77699]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1975-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Howard, F. Burton. “Come Back to the Lord.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1986.
ID = [15811]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 11121  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:14:33
Howard, F. Burton. “Come Back to the Lord.” Ensign, November 1986.
ID = [47855]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 11004  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:09
Nyman, Monte S. “Come to Understanding and Learn Doctrine.” In The Book of Mormon: Second Nephi, The Doctrinal Structure, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr., 19–37. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [36867]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 33770  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:00
Coleman, Gary J. “Come Unto Christ Through the Book of Mormon.” Devotional, Brigham Young University—Idaho, September 18, 2012.
ID = [72612]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-09-18  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:55:10
Benson, Ezra Taft. “‘Come unto Christ’” Ensign, November 1987.
ID = [48334]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1987-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10350  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:13
Hawk, Larry J. Echo. “‘Come unto Me, O Ye House of Israel’” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 2012.
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As we come unto our Savior, Jesus Christ, and purify our hearts, we will all be instruments in fulfilling the mighty promises of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [21742]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 7135  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:23:49
Reynolds, Noel B. “‘Come unto Me’ as a Technical Gospel Term.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 1-24.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon repeatedly outlines a six-part definition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but most writers within the book refer to only two or three of them at a time in a biblical rhetorical device called merismus. Throughout the scriptures, the term “come unto Christ” in its many forms is used as part of these merisms to represent enduring to the end. This article examines the many abbreviations of the gospel, connects the phrase “come unto Christ” with enduring to the end, and discusses some of the alternate uses of these types of phrases.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [3587]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 50577  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me Recommended Study Aids — Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
ID = [6618]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:35
Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me Resource Index: Book of Mormon (2020).” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
ID = [6617]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:35
Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon (2020) Lessons.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 1.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 10.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 11.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 12.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 13.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 14.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 15.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 16.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 17.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 18.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 19.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 2.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 20.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 21.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 22.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 23.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 24.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 25.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 26.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 27.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 28.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 29.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 3.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 30.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 31.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 32.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 33.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 34.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 35.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 36.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 37.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 38.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 39.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 4.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 40.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 41.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 42.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 43.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 44.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 45.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 46.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 47.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 48.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 49.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 5.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 50.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 6.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 7.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 8.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
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Interpreter Foundation. “Come, Follow Me — Book of Mormon Lesson 9.” The Interpreter Foundation website. 2020.
ID = [6628]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:35
McConkie, Bruce R. “Come: Hear the Voice of the Lord.” Ensign, December 1985.
ID = [47394]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1985-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign,mcconkie  Size: 22499  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:06
Dike, Charles. “A Comet, Christ’s Birth, and Josephus’s Lunar Eclipse.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 52 (2022): 279-320.
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Abstract: A comet seen by the Chinese in 5 bc has been considered by some authors as a possibility for the Star of Bethlehem. This article starts with that premise and argues that Book of Mormon evidences reinforce that likelihood. The comet path can account for all events surrounding the Star of Bethlehem. Based on typologies in the scriptures, eyewitness reports, and the comet’s timing, the date of Christ’s birth can be determined. A proposal can then be made as to when and why the wise men began travelling to Jerusalem. The comet left a trail of debris the wise men saw on the night they located the house where Jesus was. The wise men and Joseph and Mary left Judea in mid-June of 5 bc and the slaughter of the innocents occurred later in that month. Using Josephus’s “Antiquities,” this article then argues strongly that Herod’s death occurred sometime after a lunar eclipse on September 15, 5 bc and before the next Passover. This serves also to support his death in the spring of 4 bc, contrary to some scholars who opt for a 1 bc death. This study reaffirms the reality of the Star of Bethlehem.

Keywords: 5 BC comet; birth of Christ; Herod; night without darkness; Star of Bethlehem
ID = [12564]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2022-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 89285  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:12
Bowen, Matthew L. “Coming Down and Bringing Down: Pejorative Onomastic Allusions to the Jaredites in Helaman 6:25, 6:38, and Ether 2:11.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42 (2021): 397-410.
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Abstract: Mormon uses pejorative wordplay on the name Jaredites based on the meaning of the Hebrew verb yārad. The onomastic rhetoric involving the meaning of yārad first surfaces in Helaman 6 where Mormon also employs wordplay on the name Cain in terms of qānâ or “getting gain.” The first wordplay occurs in the negative purpose clause “lest they should be a means of bringing down [cf. lĕhôrîd] the people unto destruction” (Helaman 6:25) and the second in the prepositional phrase “until they had come down [cf. yārĕdû/yordû] to believe in their works” (Helaman 6:38). Mormon uses these pejorative wordplays as a means of emphasizing the genetic link that he sees between Jareditic secret combinations and the derivative Gadianton robbers. Moroni reflects upon his father’s earlier use of this type of pejorative wordplay on “Jaredites” and yārad when he directly informs latter-day Gentiles regarding the “decrees of God” upon the land of promise “that ye may repent and not continue in your iniquities until the fullness be come, that ye may not bring down [cf. *tôrîdû/hôradtem] the fullness of the wrath of God upon you as the inhabitants of the land hath hitherto done” (Ether 2:11). All three of these onomastic allusions constitute an urgent and timely warning to latter-day Gentiles living upon the land of promise. They warn the Gentiles against “coming down” to believe in and partake of the works and spoils of secret combinations like the Jaredites and the Nephites did, and thus “bringing down” their own people to destruction and “bringing down” the “fullness of the wrath of God” upon themselves, as the Jaredites and the Nephites both did.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Interpreter Foundation. “Coming Event: Lecture on a New Publication, The Nature of the Original Language of the Book of Mormon.” The Interpreter Foundation website. September 4, 2018.
ID = [5856]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-09-04  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 1013  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:30
Church News. “Coming Forth of Book of Mormon Is a Sign Israel Is Being Gathered.” Church News 58 (15 October 1988): 10.
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The coming forth of the Book of Mormon is a sign that the Lord has commenced to gather Israel and to fulill his covenants with them.

ID = [79316]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1988-10-15  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Penrose, Charles W. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 23, no. 11 (1923): 953-957.
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This article claims that Moroni’s visits to Joseph Smith in September 1823 stand second only in importance to the First Vision. It is significant that Moroni’s visitations preceded the restoration of the priesthood and the organization of the Church.

Keywords: Angel Moroni, Book of Mormon, First Vision, Moroni (Son of Mormon), Priesthood Restoration, Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76803]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1923-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:59
Burgess, S. A. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Saints’ Herald 74 (8 June 1927): 654-55.
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Presents a brief outline of Joseph Smith’s life, an overview of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, and Joseph’s account of Moroni’s visits in 1823.

ID = [80433]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1927-06-08  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Merrill, Joseph F. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Deseret News Church Section (26 September 1931): 4.
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Retells Joseph Smith’s account of the angel Moroni’s visit, his acquisition of the plates, and the translation. Concludes with the testimony of the Three Witnesses.

ID = [80435]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1931-09-26  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Relief Society Magazine. “Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Relief Society Magazine 20 (January 1933): 52-53.
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Reviews the obtaining and the translation of the gold plates by Joseph Smith, the Anthon incident and the publication of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79317]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1933-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
McGavin, E. Cecil, and Arch S. Reynolds. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 101, no. 33 (17 August 1939): 517- 18, 523.
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Because of fear, the people of Palmyra tried to prevent publication of the Book of Mormon. For this reason two copies of the translation were made and only portions went to the publisher at a time. A covenant was made among people in the community that not a single copy would be bought. Despite this difficult beginning, the Book of Mormon has become the second best seller in the nation, published also in Braille.

ID = [81300]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1939-08-17  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:12
Callis, Charles A. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Deseret News Church Section (25 September 1943): 11, 12.
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On September 21, 1823, an angel of God announced that records of an ancient American people taught by the Savior were to come forth. The inspired records would bring the fulness of the gospel to the house of Israel and to the Gentiles and add a second witness to the Bible.

ID = [80434]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1943-09-25  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Ensign. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign December 1983.
ID = [46482]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1983-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:50:07
BYU Religious Education. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Roundtable Scripture Discussion with Andrew Hedges, Kent Jackson, Keith Wilson, Steven Harper, 2008.
ID = [39544]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2004-03-05  Collections:  bom,rsc-rt-bom2008,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:36
BYU Studies, ed. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2012.
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This compilation of groundbreaking Book of Mormon articles is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on Moroni’s visits, the Anthon transcript, the original Book of Mormon manuscript, the Dogberry Papers, copyright law in 1830, and more. Contents “A Survey of Pre-1830 Historical Sources Relating to the Book of Mormon” David A. Palmer “Where Were the Moroni Visits?” Russell R. Rich “The Anthon Transcript: People, Primary Sources, and Problems” Stanley B. Kimball “The Colesville Branch and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon” Larry C. Porter “The Original Book of Mormon Manuscript” Dean C. Jessee “The Dogberry Papers and the Book of Mormon” Russell R. Rich “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon” Nathaniel Hinckley Wadsworth “‘Securing’ the Prophet’s Copyright in the Book of Mormon: Historical and Legal Context for the So-called Canadian Copyright Revelation” Stephen Kent Ehat “‘Entered At Stationers’ Hall’: The British Copyright Registrations for the Book of Mormon in 1841 and the Doctrine and Covenants in 1845” Edward L. Carter “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century” Noel B. Reynolds

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
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Largey, Dennis L., Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull, eds. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder. Proceedings of The 44th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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The 44th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The 2015 Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium explored the modern miracle of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. Featuring a keynote address by Elder Merrill J. Bateman discussing the Book of Mormon’s restoration of plain and precious truths, this volume describes the development of the teenage seer Joseph Smith Jr. and includes marvelous accounts of the many witnesses to the plates. It tells the story of the Book of Mormon, from Joseph Smith’s translation of the sacred record to the process of financing and printing the first edition, and concludes with its message rolling forth to many nations—to “every kindred, tongue, and people.” ISBN 987-1-62972-114-9

ID = [33235]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 14  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:30:53

Articles

Bateman, Merrill J. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon to Restore Plain and Precious Truths.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
ID = [34704]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 47205  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Harper, Steven C. “The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34705]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 48092  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Sweat, Anthony. “Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
ID = [34706]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 41647  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
RSC Topics > T — Z > Urim and Thummim
ID = [34707]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 49994  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Haws, JB. “The Lost 116 Pages Story: What We Do Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Might Know.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, edited by Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull, 81–102. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Revelation
ID = [34708]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 57110  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Bennett, Richard E. “Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34709]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 32863  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Harper, Steven C. “The Eleven Witnesses.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [34710]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 38004  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Easton-Flake, Amy, and Rachel Cope. “A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
RSC Topics > G — K > Gold Plates
RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34711]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 51650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34712]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,smith-joseph-jr  Size: 42002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:58
Chatelain, Jeremy J. “The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844
ID = [34713]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 62668  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Griffiths, Casey Paul. “The Book of Mormon among the Saints: Evolving Use of the Keystone Scripture.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34714]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 69977  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Chou, Po Nien (Felipe), and Petra Chou. “‘To Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and People’” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
ID = [34715]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 78512  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Ludlow, Jared W. “‘They Are Not Cast Off Forever’: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [34716]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 36520  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Hopkin, Shon D. “‘To the Convincing of the Jew and Gentile That JESUS Is the CHRIST’” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon, eds. Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Miracles
ID = [34717]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size: 44169  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:59
Holland, Matthew S. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, July 2015.
ID = [61086]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 16087  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:43
Soares, Ulisses. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Delivered at the Saturday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 2020.
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The historical facts and the special witnesses of the Book of Mormon testify that its coming forth was indeed miraculous.

ID = [23287]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2020-04-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 12583  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:08
Soares, Ulisses. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, May 2020.
ID = [63462]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2020-05-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 14683  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:58:43
Reynolds, Noel B. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century.” BYU Studies 38, no. 2 (1999): 6-47.
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In his landmark conference addresses in 1986, President Benson repeatedly cited the Doctrine and Covenants and reiterated his long-standing belief that the Church was under condemnation for taking the Book of Mormon too lightly. He also announced that “the Lord has revealed the need to reemphasize the Book of Mormon.” Latter-day Saints responded with an enormous and passionate effort to fully utilize the Nephite record. Such fervor did not always exist.

Keywords: Benson; Ezra Taft; Scholarship; Scripture Study
ID = [11807]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1999-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies,d-c  Size: 113139  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:07
BYU Religious Studies Center. The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder. The 44th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2015.
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The 44th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The 2015 Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium explored the modern miracle of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. Featuring a keynote address by Elder Merrill J. Bateman discussing the Book of Mormon’s restoration of plain and precious truths, this volume describes the development of the teenage seer Joseph Smith Jr. and includes marvelous accounts of the many witnesses to the plates. It tells the story of the Book of Mormon, from Joseph Smith’s translation of the sacred record to the process of financing and printing the first edition, and concludes with its message rolling forth to many nations—to “every kindred, tongue, and people.”

ID = [38792]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 2  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:55

Talks

MacKay, Michael Hubbard. “Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation.” The 44th Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2015.
ID = [38856]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-sperry,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:59
Mortimer, Wm. James. “The Coming Forth of the LDS Editions of Scripture.” Ensign, August 1983, 35–41.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS edition
ID = [46344]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1983-08-01  Collections:  bom,ensign,old-test  Size: 28742  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:50:07
Matson, Joshua M. “Coming to Know Christ through the ‘I Am’ Statements in the Book of Mormon.” In I Glory in My Jesus: Understanding Christ in the Book of Mormon, eds. Hilton, John, III, Nicholas J. Frederick, Mark D. Ogletree, and Krystal V. L. Pierce. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2023.
ID = [81582]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2023-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:28
EchoHawk, Larry C. “Coming Together for Future Generations.” University Forum, Brigham Young University—Idaho, May 17, 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [74090]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2012-05-17  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:08:35
Whiting, Gary R. “The Commandment to Be Perfect.” In The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This Is My Gospel, eds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
ID = [36739]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 36405  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:53
Bassett, K. Douglas. Commentaries on Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2003.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [29929]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:29
Wipper, Frank F. “Commentary on Some Nephite Record Subjects.” N.p.: n.p., 1940?.
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Presents an outline of several Book of Mormon subjects: (1) priests in the Book of Mormon—finds that Book of Mormon priests were after the order of Melchizedek; (2) the choice seer—the choice seer was to come from the tribe of Joseph who was sold into Egypt. This seer will be named Lehi and he will be weak in speaking and will need a spokesman. This criteria does not fit Joseph Smith; (3) Zion—suggests that Zion is a spiritual condition not a literal gathering; (4) the parable of Zenos—outlines its contents, stressing the need for obedience and an ultimate cleansing.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [77700]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1940-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Reynolds, George, and Janne M. Sjodahl. Commentary on the Book of Mormon. 7 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1955, [R]1960.
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This multivolume work contains verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Mormon. The text of the Book of Mormon is included. Also includes discussions of the history and missions of major personalities of the book, treatment of word meanings and usages including comparisons with biblical terms, comments and testimonies of Church leaders, discussion of doctrine, and each volume outlines the chronology of the scriptures included in its scope.

ID = [77702]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1960-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Hartshorn, Leon R., and Chris Bergstrom Armstrong. Commentary on the Book of Mormon. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1966.
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A verse- by-verse doctrinal commentary on the Book of Mormon. The commentator’s sources include histories, archaeological findings, personal religious beliefs, and other sources.

ID = [77701]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1966-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Sorenson, John L. “Comments on Nephite Chronology.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 2 no. 2 (1993).
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Revisions of Nephite chronology in the Book of Mormon occur as scholarship on various issues improves.

ID = [2852]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms,sorenson  Size: 12551  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:09
Roper, Matthew P. “Comments on the Book of Mormon Witnesses: A Response to Jerald and Sandra Tanner.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 2, no. 2 (1993): 164-193.
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Critics of the Book of Mormon frequently claim that some of the Book of Mormon witnesses later doubted or denied their testimony of the Book of Mormon. They also claim that the activities of the Three Witnesses while out of the church cast doubt upon the reliability of their earlier written testimony. I review evidence for these claims and also discuss the issue of what may constitute a witness of the Book of Mormon and whether the witnesses ever doubted or denied their testimony of the Book of Mormon. Evidence for later disbelief in the Book of Mormon by the witnesses is unpersuasive. I detail several miscellaneous issues relating to Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s criticisms of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Anti-Mormon; Apologetics; Cowdery; David; Early Church History; Eight Witnesses; Gold Plates; Harris; Martin; Oliver; Testimony; Three Witnesses; Vision; Whitmer
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [2848]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 72249  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:09
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. Commitment to the Covenant: Strengthening the Me, We, and Thee of Marriage. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
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In recent decades, prophets have repeatedly emphasized how a strong marriage and family are the basis of a robust society; they have counseled and warned of the many modern obstacles that can erode a healthy family life. This book draws on inspiring personal stories, research from sociology and psychology, and doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ to present key principles that, when applied, will help a marriage thrive. The authors use three broad content areas—the things we each need to do personally to improve our marriage (Me), the things we need to do together as a couple to strengthen our marital relationship (We), and ways we can more fully involve God in our marriage relationship (Thee). This three-part approach is theoretical and practical and will help guide you to a successful and happy marriage. ISBN 978-1-9443-9431-8

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [33205]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 15  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:30:51

Chapters

McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Preface.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34292]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 1875  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Commitment to the Covenant.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
ID = [34293]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42409  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “The Power of Commitment.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [34294]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 69069  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Bounce Back and Move Forward.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Adversity
RSC Topics > A — C > Bishop
RSC Topics > G — K > Gratitude
RSC Topics > G — K > Hope
RSC Topics > T — Z > Trials
ID = [34295]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 65235  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘I Forgive You’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Forgiveness
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
ID = [34296]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 65145  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Close to You.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Dating
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
ID = [34297]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 69388  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘They Twain Shall Be One Flesh’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Charity
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
ID = [34298]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 48099  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘The Spirit of Contention Is Not of Me’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
ID = [34299]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 72968  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “For Richer or for Poorer.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Family
RSC Topics > L — P > Parenting
RSC Topics > T — Z > Tithing
ID = [34300]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 55548  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘Holding Fast to the Rod of Iron’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [34301]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 72425  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘Safety in Counsel’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Peace
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [34302]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52155  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:34
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “‘We are a Covenant-Making People’” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost
RSC Topics > G — K > Humility
RSC Topics > G — K > Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > L — P > Love
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
RSC Topics > L — P > Priesthood
RSC Topics > Q — S > Repentance
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sealing
ID = [34303]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 62991  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Appendix: In Sickness and in Health.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
ID = [34304]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 75018  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Bibliography.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34305]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 33654  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
McClendon, Debra Theobald, and Richard J. McClendon. “Index.” In Commitment to the Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
ID = [34306]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 17756  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:35
Ensign. “Common Questions about the Book of Mormon.” Ensign October 2011.
ID = [59447]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2011-10-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8877  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:13
Givens, Terryl L. “‘Common-Sense’ Meets the Book of Mormon: Source, Substance, and Prophetic Disruption.” The FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 33-55.
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This essay challenges criticism of the alleged origins of the Book of Mormon and argues a common-sense approach to support the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Authorship; Criticism; Doctrine; Evidence; Historicity; Joseph; Jr.; Smith; Theology
ID = [593]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 55914  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:56
Evans, Richard L. “Communication.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1963.
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This article states that the Book of Mormon is not a substitute but a supplement for the Bible, and a sacred record preserved by prophets of ancient America.

Keywords: Another Testament of Jesus Christ; Book of Mormon; Holy Bible; Intertextuality
ID = [27582]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1963-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,general-conference  Size: 12441  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:15
Dickinson, Ellen E. “Communications: The Book of Mormon.” Scribner’s Monthly 22 (October 1881): 946-48.
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This letter to the editor states that Hurlburt had searched out Mrs. Davidson, widow of Rev. Spaulding. The Manuscript Found was reported to be the basis of the Book of Mormon, but upon examination was found to be “nothing of the kind” Includes several affidavits by friends and neighbors of Rev. Spaulding that assure that the Book of Mormon is similar to the Spaulding manuscript.

ID = [79318]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1881-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Lee, Harold B. “Communion with Deity.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1966.
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This article discusses how Aaron chided Ammon for boasting, but Ammon reminded his brother that he did not boast in his own strength, but in the strength of God. Spiritual strength is needed to serve in our earthly missions, thus we must be attuned to God through repentance, faith, good works, and continual prayer.

Keywords: Aaron (Son of King Mosiah); Ammon (Son of King Mosiah); Faith; Humility; Praise; Sons of King Mosiah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [27810]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1966-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,general-conference  Size: 16199  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:17
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Communist Threat to the Americas.” Delivered at the Sunday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1960.
ID = [27400]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1960-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 18670  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:14
Ludlow, Daniel H. A Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.
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A Book of Mormon study guide that includes a verse-by-verse commentary, five appendices, a number of charts and maps, and several expositions discussing the history behind the Book of Mormon, the purposes of the Book of Mormon, the major plates, a historical overview of biblical history preceding the Book of Mormon period, and a secular history of the peoples in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77402]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1976-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Poelman, Ronald E. “Companions from the Scriptures.” Devotional, Brigham Young University, August 5, 1979.
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Keywords: Scriptures
ID = [68573]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1979-08-05  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:03:22
Church News. “Comparative Languages.” Church News 27 (30 November 1957): 7.
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Reprint of the Anthon transcript and the Meriotic script taken from the Stela of Prince Akininzaz. Points out that the “Meroites, Lehi’s contemporaries, became isolated in [Central] Africa and developed a ‘reformed Egyptian’ style of writing”

ID = [79319]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1957-11-30  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Comparative Method.” In “Mixed Voices” on Book of Mormon Criticism series, Improvement Era 62, no. 10 (October 1959): 744–47, 759.
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Reprinted combined with part two in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 8.
The good and bad sides of comparing the Book of Mormon to other works.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Comparative Analysis
ID = [927]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1959-03-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley  Size: 22398  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:19
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Comparative Method.” Improvement Era 62, no. 10 (October 1959): 744—47, 759.
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Reprinted combined with part two in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 8.
The good and bad sides of comparing the Book of Mormon to other works.

ID = [77275]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1959-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Nibley, Hugh W. “Chapter 8: The Comparative Method.” In The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 8. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989.
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A combination of two articles originally published in the Improvement Era’s series titled “Mixed Voices“ on Book of Mormon Criticism, which ran October–November 1959.
The good and bad sides of comparing the Book of Mormon to other works.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Comparative Analysis
ID = [2088]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:25
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Comparative Method (conclusion).” Improvement Era 62, no. 11 (November 1959): 848, 854, 856.
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Reprinted combined with part one in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 8.
The good and bad sides of comparing the Book of Mormon to other works.

ID = [77276]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1959-11-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Archer, John B., John L. Hilton, and G. Bruce Schaalje. “Comparative Power of Three Author-Attribution Techniques for Differentiating Authors.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 6 no. 1 (1997).
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Over the last twenty years, various objective author-attribution techniques have been applied to the English Book of Mormon in order to shed light on the question of multiple authorship of Book of Mormon texts. Two methods, one based on rates of use of noncontextual words and one based on word-pattern ratios, measure patterns consistent with multiple authorship in the Book of Mormon. Another method, based on vocabulary-richness measures, suggests that only one author is involved. These apparently contradictory results are reconciled by showing that for texts of known authorship, the method based on vocabulary-richness measures is not as powerful in discerning differences among authors as are the other methods, especially for works translated into English by a single translator.

ID = [2946]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 31931  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:15
Crowell, Angela M. “A Comparative Study of Biblical Hebrew Sentence Structure in the Old Testament and in the Book of Mormon.” M. A. thesis, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, August 1988.
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Describes some 50 forms of biblical Hebrew sentence structures, giving examples of its usage in the Bible and compares them to similar forms in the Book of Mormon (1908 RLDS edition).

ID = [78864]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1988-08-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Allen, Joseph L. “A Comparative Study of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered-Serpent God of Meso-America, with Jesus Christ, the God of the Nephites.” M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1970.
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A dissertation that draws on Spanish historical accounts, archaeological evidence, and the Book of Mormon scriptures. Draws parallels between Quetzalcoatl and Jesus Christ, suggesting that they may have been the same divine individual. Discusses the problems and possibilities of making the comparison.

ID = [78865]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1970-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Morley, Ray Gerald. “A Comparative Study of the Book of Mormon Secret Combinations and the American Mafia Organization.” M.R.E. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1972.
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Thesis consists of three parts: (1) an overview of secret combinations in the book of Moses and the Book of Mormon; (2) a history of the mafia in Sicily and America; (3) a comparison of practices of secret combinations in the Book of Mormon and America.

ID = [78866]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1972-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Wilcox, Bradley R., Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Bruce L. Brown, and Sharon Black. “Comparing Book of Mormon Names with Those Found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works: An Exploratory Study.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 105-124.
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Abstract: The works of Tolkien and the Book of Mormon have been compared in a variety of ways by multiple authors and researchers, but none have looked specifically at the unusual names found within both. Wordprint studies are one tool used in author attribution research, but do authors use specific sounds more than others — consciously or subconsciously — when selecting or inventing names? Some research suggests they may and that their patterns could create a “sound print” or phonoprint. This constitutes a fresh and unusual path of research that deserves more attention. The purpose of this exploratory study was to see if phonoprints surfaced when examining Dwarf, Elf, Hobbit, Man, and other names created by Tolkien and Jaredite, Nephite, Mulekite, and Lamanite names found in the Book of Mormon. Results suggest that Tolkien had a phonoprint he was unable to entirely escape when creating character names, even when he claimed he based them on distinct languages. In contrast, in Book of Mormon names, a single author’s phonoprint did not emerge. Names varied by group in the way one would expect authentic names from different cultures to vary. Although much more research needs to be done to establish the validity and reliability of using phonoprints for author identification, this study opens a door for future research.

ID = [3610]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 43860  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:03
Wilcox, Bradley R., Bruce L. Brown, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Sharon Black, and Dennis L. Eggett. “Comparing Phonemic Patterns in Book of Mormon Personal Names with Fictional and Authentic Sources: An Exploratory Study.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 105-122.
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Abstract: In 2013 we published a study examining names from Solomon Spalding’s fictional manuscript, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional works, and nineteenth-century US census records. Results showed names created by authors of fiction followed phonemic patterns that differed from those of authentic names from a variety of cultural origins found in the US census. The current study used the same methodology to compare Book of Mormon names to the three name sources in the original study and found that Book of Mormon names seem to have more in common with the patterns found in authentic names than they do with those from fictional works. This is not to say that Book of Mormon names are similar to nineteenth- century names, but rather that they both showed similar patterns when phonotactic probabilities were the common measure. Of course, many more invented names and words from a variety of authors and time periods will need to be analyzed along with many more authentic names across multiple time periods before any reliable conclusions can be drawn. This study was exploratory in nature and conducted to determine if this new line of research merits further study. We concluded it does.

ID = [3560]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 37458  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
McConkie, Joseph Fielding. “A Comparison of Book of Mormon, Bible, and Traditional Teachings on the Doctrines of Salvation.” In The Book of Mormon: The Keystone Scripture, ed. Paul R. Cheesman, 73–90. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [36973]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 35706  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:06
Sorenson, John L. “Comparison of Fundamental Traits of the Book of Mormon and Ancient American Civilizations.” University Archaeological Society Newsletter 4 (20 January 1952).
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A list of 23 traits considered by Steward as characteristic of early “formative” culture common to both Mesoamerica and the Andean region is compared with Book of Mormon culture. None of Steward’s elements are contrary to the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79321]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1952-01-20  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Sorenson, John L. “Comparison of Fundamental Traits of the Book of Mormon and Ancient American Civilizations.” In Progress in Archaeology: An Anthology, edited by Christensen, Ross T., 108. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1963.
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A list of 23 traits considered by Steward as characteristic of early “formative” culture common to both Mesoamerica and the Andean region is compared with Book of Mormon culture. None of Steward’s elements are contrary to the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79320]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1963-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Riley, William L. “A Comparison of Passages from Isaiah and Other Old Testament Prophets in Ethan Smith’s View of the Hebrews and the Book of Mormon.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1971.
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Compares the Book of Mormon and the View of the Hebrews. The parallels have also been studied by B. H. Roberts and Hugh Nibley, who say that any connections that may be made are also found in the Bible. The emphasis of this paper is on passages from Isaiah that are common to all three books.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
ID = [67946]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1971-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:45
Carmack, Stanford A. “A Comparison of the Book of Mormon’s Subordinate That Usage.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50 (2022): 1-32.
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Abstract: This paper compares the Book of Mormon’s subordinate that usage with what is found in the King James Bible, pseudo-archaic writings, and the greater textual record. In this linguistic domain, the Book of Mormon manifests as thoroughly archaic, and it surpasses all known pseudo-archaic writings in breadth and depth of archaism. The implications of this set of linguistic data indicate that the translation as originally dictated by Joseph Smith cannot plausibly be explained as the result of Joseph’s own word choices, but it is consistent with the hypothesis that the wording was somehow provided to him.
Book of Mormon excerpt with an archaic subordinate that:“after that they had hid themselves, I Nephi crept into the city”
(1 Nephi 4:5)1

Keywords: archaism; Book of Mormon; linguistics
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [8434]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2022-00-00  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64650  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:43
Jesclard, Paul Richard. “A Comparison of the Nephite Monetary System with the Egyptian System of Measure.” Society for Early Historic Archaeology Newsletter 134 (October 1973): 1-5.
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Argues that there is “a connection between the Nephite monetary system, as detailed in the Book of Mormon (Alma 11:3-19), and the Egyptian wedjat-eye system of measuring grain” The Nephites altered a pattern of measuring money from the Near East.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [78868]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1973-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Johnson, Roy. “A Comparison of the Use of the Oath in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1982.
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Roy Johnson examines the rituals and formulas of oaths, types of oaths, and the use of oaths in both the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon. Johnson compares the use of oaths, curses, and covenants in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon to show that the relationship among those three acts is the same in both books.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Ancient Israel
ID = [8388]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1982-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-reports,old-test  Size: 998  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:42
Peterson, Daniel C. “Compassion as the Heart of the Gospel.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): vii-xvi.
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Abstract: The Greek philosopher Aristotle, clearly one of the world’s great geniuses, created the concept of the “unmoved mover,” which moves “other things, but is, itself, unmoved by anything else.” This label became the standard Jewish, Christian, and Muslim description of an impersonal God — a God without body, parts or passions — a concept that has, for nearly 20 centuries, dominated western theology, philosophy, and science. The problem for thinkers in these religious traditions is that the God depicted in the Bible and the Qur’an is plainly personal. A careful review of the Bible and modern scripture reveals a “compassionate, feeling” God. Numerous scriptures confirm that God, in fact, “feels more deeply than we can even begin to imagine.”.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [3571]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,peterson  Size: 22156  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Lea, Leonard J. Compendium of the Scriptures: Including Texts of the Standard Books of the Church. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1951.
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Compendium of scriptural references from the Book of Mormon and other standard works of the RLDS church appear under subject headings to assist greater understanding of doctrinal topics. Topics include the divine nature of God, the Book of Mormon, divine revelation, authority and priesthood.

ID = [77703]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1951-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Unattributed. Compilation of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Department of Audio-Visual Communication BYU,n.d.
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Color diagram of the records that became the Book of Mormon, beginning with the brass plates to the inished product.

ID = [77705]  Status = Type = book  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Howells, Rulon S. Compilation of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1961.
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A large fold-out chart depicting the way in which the Book of Mormon was compiled and abridged. Includes a facsimile of the characters on the plates, the translation of the records, and an account of the method of translation.

ID = [77704]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1961-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Dibble, Charles E. “Compilation of the Indian Languages of America.” Improvement Era 44, no. 8 (1941): 456.
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A series of brief comments in which the author presents archaeological findings, architectural notes, and myths and legends that deal indirectly with the Book of Mormon. Dibble discusses the wheel, ancient irrigation methods, metals, Mexican and Mayan codices, Quetzalcoatl, ancient buildings, and numerous other related items. The fifth part covers Native American languages.

Keywords: Language, Language – Mayan, Language – Uto-Aztecan, Linguistics, Native Americans
ID = [76835]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1941-08-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:01
Reynolds, George. Complete Concordance of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1900.
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A concordance or alphabetical listing of all the words of the Book of Mormon (except twenty of the most common words, such as a, the, and) accompanied with scriptural references and a brief excerpt of the scriptural passage showing the context of each word of the concordance.

ID = [77706]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1900-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Reynolds, George. A Complete Concordance to the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1900.
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This excellent concordance to the Book of Mormon was begun by Elder George Reynolds whilst he was imprisoned for practicing polygamy. He would labor on it for twenty years before it was completed. While it is little-used itself today, Reynolds’s concordance served as a foundation for the later Topical Guide and index to the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Education, Scripture Study
ID = [75418]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1900-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:44
Starks, Arthur E. Complete Concordance to the Book of Mormon. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1950.
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A concordance to the Book of Mormon published by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Format is dictionary style, by words and key phrases with cross references.

ID = [77707]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1950-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Harris, Martin. “Complete Text of Martin Harris Letter.” Church News 52 (9 October 1982): 23.
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News article about a recently-discovered letter, written to a Walter Conrad and dated January 13, 1873, in which Martin Harris testifies that as he was praying to see the “ancient record” an angel appeared behind a table on which were the spectacles called the Urim and Thummim and the engraved plates. (Editor’s note: this has since been shown to be a forgery by Mark Hofmann.)

ID = [79322]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1982-10-09  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Jakeman, M. Wells. “The Complex ‘Tree of Life’ Carving on Izapa Stela 5.” Provo, UT: n.p., 1958.
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A booklet containing an analysis of the tree of life and other figures and depictions on Izapa Stela 5. Illustrations are provided. This work is reviewed in G.031.

ID = [78459]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1958-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:13
Thorne, Melvin J. “Complexity, Consistency, Ignorance, and Probabilities.” In Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds, 179-193. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography - Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon Historicity; Demography; King Benjamin; King Benjamin's Speech; Language - Hebrew; Parallelism; Warfare
ID = [75470]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:47
Tvedtnes, John A. “Composition and History of the Book of Mormon.” New Era 4, no. 9 (1974): 41-43.
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A brief explanation of the origin and transmission of the various records compiled by Mormon into the book that bears his name. Accompanied by a flow chart.

Keywords: Brass Plates, Large Plates of Nephi, Mormon (Prophet), Prophet, Redaction, Small Plates of Nephi
ID = [76622]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1974-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:49
Tvedtnes, John A. “Composition and History of the Book of Mormon.” New Era 4 (September 1974): 41-43.
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A brief explanation of the origin and transmission of the various records compiled by Mormon into the book that bears his name. Accompanied by a flow chart.

ID = [79323]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1974-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Sorenson, John L. “The Composition of Lehi’s Family.” In By Study and Also By Faith, Volume 2, edited by John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks, 174-196. Vol. 2. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies/Deseret Book, 1990.
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This second of two volumes of essays honoring Hugh Nibley includes scholarly papers based on what the authors have learned from Nibley. Nearly every major subject that Dr. Nibley has encompassed in his vast learning and scholarly production is represented here by at least one article. Topics include the sacrament covenant in Third Nephi, the Lamanite view of Book of Mormon history, external evidences of the Book of Mormon, proper names in the Book of Mormon, the brass plates version of Genesis, the composition of Lehi’s family, ancient burials of metal documents in stone boxes, repentance as rethinking, Mormon history’s encounter with secular modernity, and Judaism in the 20th century.
A microanthropological examination of what the text reveals regarding the composition and demography of Lehi’s party from the beginning of their sojourn in the Arabian wilderness to their arrival in the promised land.

Keywords: Family; Ishmael; Ishmael’s Wife; Jacob (Son of Lehi); Joseph (Son of Lehi); Laman (Son of Lehi); Lehi (Prophet); Lemuel (Son of Lehi); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Sam (Son of Lehi); Sariah
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Book of Mormon
ID = [2358]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1990-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-books,nibley,sorenson  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:41
Stevens, Thelona D. “Composition of the Plates of the Book of Mormon.” Saints’ Herald 94 (27 December 1947): 1177-78.
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Biblical and archaeological evidence indicate that a wide variety of materials were used for record keeping, including papyrus, parchment, clay tablets, brass, and other metals. The Book of Mormon mentions plates of brass, of ore (gold, silver, and copper), and of pure gold.

ID = [79324]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1947-12-27  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Riess, Jana. “Comprehending the Book of Mormon through Its Editors.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 25, no. 1 (2016): 76-84.
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Grant Hardy’s 2010 book Understanding the Book of Mormon changed the landscape of Book of Mormon studies by paying careful attention to the role of that scripture’s three primary editors, who were also narrators. Hardy teases out the specific personality of each one: Nephi, a theologian concerned with his legacy and place in history; Mormon, a historian whose choice and placement of primary sources often reveals as much as his own narration; and Moroni, the wandering survivor of one dying civilization who chose to focus his brief record on the fall of a previous one. Through detailed textual criticism, Hardy invites readers to better understand the complexity and richness of the Book of Mormon

Keywords: History; Mormon (Prophet); Moroni (Son of Mormon); Narrative; Narrative Analysis; Narrator; Nephi (Son of Lehi); Theology
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3342]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 20118  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:41
Parry, Donald W., and Jeanette W. Miller. A Comprehensive Annotated Book of Mormon Bibliography. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996.
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By Donald W. Parry, Jeanette W. Miller, and Sandra A. Thorne, Published on 01/01/96

ID = [6985]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 2487812  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Allred, David A. “A Comprehensive Annotated Book of Mormon Bibliography.” BYU Studies 37, no. 1 (1997): 238.
ID = [11923]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 1690  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:08
Welch, John W., Gary P. Gillum, and DeeAnn Hofer. Comprehensive Bibliography of the Book of Mormon Arranged Alphabetically by Author. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1987.
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Book of Mormon bibliography arranged alphabetically by author.

ID = [77708]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  bom,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Welch, John W., Gary P. Gillum, and DeeAnn Hofer. Comprehensive Bibliography of the Book of Mormon Arranged by Subject. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1987.
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Bibliography of books and articles about the Book of Mormon arranged according to subjects.

ID = [77709]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  bom,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Welch, John W., Gary P. Gillum, and DeeAnn Hofer. Comprehensive Bibliography of the Book of Mormon Arranged Chronologically. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1987.
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This one hundred page bibliography of books and articles written about the Book of Mormon is listed according to their date of publication.

ID = [77710]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  bom,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Gillum, Gary P., and John W. Welch. Comprehensive Bibliography of the Book of Mormon: Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1982.
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The preliminary work for this annotated bibliography.

ID = [77711]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1982-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of 3 Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 3 Nephi, Commentary, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [75434]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of 4 Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 4 Nephi, Commentary, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 4 Nephi
ID = [75435]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Alma. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Alma (Book), Commentary
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [75442]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Enos. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Enos, Prophet, Repentance, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Enos
ID = [75443]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Ether. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Ether, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [75444]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Helaman. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Helaman, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [75436]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Jacob. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Jacob, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
ID = [75445]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Jarom. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Jarom, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jarom
ID = [75446]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Mormon. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Mormon, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
ID = [75432]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Moroni. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Moroni, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [75437]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Mosiah. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Mosiah, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [75438]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Book of Omni. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Omni, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Omni
ID = [75447]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the First Book of Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 1 Nephi, Commentary, Ishmael, Laman (Son of Lehi), Lehi (Prophet), Lemuel (Son of Lehi), Nephi, Prophet, Revelation, Sam, Sariah, Scripture Study, Zoram (Servant of Laban)
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [75439]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Second Book of Nephi. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: 2 Nephi, Commentary, Isaiah, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [75440]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Title Page of the Book of Mormon. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Mormon, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study, Title Page, Translation
ID = [75433]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:45
Hyde, Paul Nolan. A Comprehensive Commentary of the Words of Mormon. Orem, UT: Parrish Press, 2015.
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Keywords: Commentary, Prophet, Revelation, Scripture Study, Words of Mormon
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Words of Mormon
ID = [75448]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:46
Roberts, B. H. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 6 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1930.
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A history of the Church, including detailed discussions of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, Joseph obtaining the plates, Lucy Mack Smith’s description of the Urim and Thummim, the translation, Professor Anthon’s letter, and the loss of the 110 pages of manuscript. Examines the mode of translation as reported by those who were near the prophet. Reports the testimony of the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, discusses anti-Mormon criticism and the excommunication of the Three Witnesses. Reveals details of the publication of the Book of Mormon, the efforts to thwart its publication, and other problems concerning the copyright. Provides an analysis of the purpose and structure of the book. Considers the conflict between Book of Mormon teachings and the revelation given to the Prophet on marriage.

ID = [77403]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1930-01-01  Collections:  bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Sperry, Sidney B. “The Concept of God in the Book of Mormon.” Deseret News (25 January 1947): 10, 12.
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Sperry describes the nature of God as taught by the Book of Mormon.

ID = [80436]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1947-01-25  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Dahl, Larry E. “The Concept of Hell.” In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 262-279. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
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Keywords: Amulek; Hell; Spirit Prison; Spirit World
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Hell
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Spirit World
ID = [36168]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,rsc-books  Size: 37520  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:25
Dahl, Larry E. “The Concept of Hell in the Book of Mormon.” In Doctrines of the Book of Mormon: The 20th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, edited by Bruce A. Van Orden and Brent L. Top, 42-56. Salt Lake City: Randall Book, 1992.
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The concept of hell plays a prominent role in the Book of Mormon. The term “hell” is attested sixty-two times in the Book of Mormon. Addresses the following questions regarding hell: Is hell temporary or permanent? What does it mean to die in our sins? Can one repent in hell? Can one receive the gospel and improve his/her condition between death and the resurrection?

ID = [81055]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:01
Young, R. W., Jr., and Martin W. Roylance. “Concerning American Antiquities.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 72, no. 22 (2 June 1910): 337-41.
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This article contains two works, both based on an article by Alice le Plongeon who argues that there is a connection between ancient Americans and ancient Egyptians, the latter originating from ancient America: “New Light Upon the Prophets Divinity” by R. W. Young, which proposes that America is the “old world” where Adam and Eve resided; and “Evidence In Support of The Book of Mormon” by Martin W. Roylance, which adds that the connection between these ancient peoples is explained by the Book of Mormon. He identifies Valparaiso, Chili, as the landing place for the Jaredites.

ID = [81340]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1910-06-02  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:14
Brookbank, Thomas W. “Concerning the Book of Mormon.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 76, no. 6 (5 February 1914): 88-92.
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Argues that the idea that Joseph Smith actually wrote the Book of Mormon is ridiculous and such an accomplishment would be similar to someone writing a 10-year historical work in a few weeks.

ID = [81350]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1914-02-05  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:15
Brookbank, Thomas W. “Concerning the Book of Mormon Plates.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 75, no. 27, 28 (3, 10 July 1913): 424-28, 440-45.
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Argues that it would be useless to show the Book of Mormon plates to the public, for a display of the gold plates would not build faith in Jesus Christ. The Lord has already sent a multitude of witnesses to testify of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81348]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1913-07-03  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:15
Brookbank, Thomas W. “Concerning the Brass Plates.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 83, no. 28-32 (14 July—11 August 1921): 433-436, 449-453, 465-468, 481-484, 497-501.
ID = [81374]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1921-07-14  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:16
Brookbank, Thomas W. Concerning the Brass Plates. Liverpool: MS Office, 1924.
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This short apologetic work argues from biblical evidence that the brass plates represented the master copy of the Israelite scriptures in Palestine until Lehi took them to the Americas. Also claims that the brass plates were written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. [A.L. & P.H.]

ID = [77712]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1924-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Brookbank, Thomas W. “Concerning the Charge of Copying.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 76, no. 36 (3 September 1914): 568-73.
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Answers the charge that Joseph Smith copied passages from the Bible into the Book of Mormon by arguing that often the Lord does not repeat laws and prophecies to men verbatim. This is clearly seen in the Hebrew Bible where it is observed that men who lived in the same land and in corresponding time periods recorded events differently as a comparison between passages of the Bible shows.

ID = [81353]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1914-09-03  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:15
Letchworth, H. I. “Concerning the Divinity of the Book of Mormon.” Saints’ Herald 96 (10 October 1949): 970.
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Discusses the Tower of Babel, Nimrod, and the Jaredites and argues that the Gazelem mentioned in the book of Alma is the brother of Jared.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [79325]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1949-10-10  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Unattributed. Concerning the Record of the Nephites. Independence, MO: Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, 197?.
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An introduction to the Book of Mormon, its people and records. 2 Nephi 28-30 presents what the Book of Mormon says concerning conditions today.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [77713]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1970-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:07
Morton, William A. “Concerning the Testimony of the Three Witnesses.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 84, no. 36 (7 September 1922): 570-71.
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The author responds to an article that claimed that the Three Witnesses “afterwards renounced Mormonism and said that their testimony was false” The Witnesses never denied their testimony of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81378]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1922-09-07  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:17
Brookbank, Thomas W. “Concerning the Urim and Thummim.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 76, no. 35 (27 August 1914): 552-7.
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Argues that the Urim and Thummim used by Joseph Smith was the same employed by the Israelites as mentioned in the Bible. The Mulekites brought it to the American continent and it was handed down through the generations and finally buried with the plates that Moroni gave to Joseph Smith.

ID = [81352]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1914-08-27  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:15
Whitehead, Earnest L. A Concise Reference to the Book of Mormon. Utah: Bookcraft, 1920.
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This pamphlet contains scriptural references to many LDS doctrinal subjects found in the Book of Mormon: authority, America as the promised land, baptism and salvation, baptism of infants, Christ as a personal being, faith and works, an unchangeable gospel, and others.

ID = [77404]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1920-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Bankhead, Reid E. Concluding Messages of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1956.
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A transcript of a series of talks, wherein the author teaches various messages of the Book of Mormon including the Atonement, sacrament, continuing revelation, Christian creeds, and Nephite destructions. His purpose is to encourage listeners to study the Book of Mormon as a means to becoming more effective teachers.

ID = [77714]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1956-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Nibley, Hugh W. “Conclusion.” In The World of the Jaredites series, Improvement Era 55, no. 7 (July 1952): 510, 550.
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A conclusion to the World of the Jaredites series.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Peoples > Jaredites
ID = [867]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1951-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley  Size: 9995  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Conclusion.” In New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study series, Improvement Era 57, no. 7 (July 1954): 506–7, 521.
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A conclusion to the New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study series.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [884]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-11-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley  Size: 15237  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:17
Holland, Jeffrey R. “Conclusion and Charge.” In The Book of Mormon: First Nephi, the Doctrinal Foundation, eds. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.
ID = [36908]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 19038  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:02
Peak, W. E. “Concordance and Reference Guide to the Book of Mormon.” Lamoni, IA: n.p., 1890?.
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Small booklet that lists and indexes topics, names, and places according to page numbers from an RLDS edition of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77715]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1890-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Cadman, Sadie B., and Sara Cadman Vancik. A Concordance of the Book of Mormon. Monongahela, PA: Church of Jesus Christ, 1986.
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A complete but not exhaustive concordance, listing words alphabetically. Contains also a historical chronology of the events in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77405]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Lampert, J. M. Concordance to the Book of Mormon. Lamoni, IA: Herald House, 1898.
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A 14-page concordance to the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77716]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1898-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Welch, John W., and Matthew G. Wells. “Concrete Evidence for the Book of Mormon.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Concrete; Geology; Mesoamerica
ID = [66504]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:39
Hopkins, N. Gaylon. “The Condescension of the Father and the Son.” In The Ninth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium: The Book of Mormon, edited by A. Gary Anderson, 48-59. Provo, UT: Religious Instruction, Brigham Young University, 1982.
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The Book of Mormon reveals the paternity of Jesus Christ, his divinity as Creator, and his condescension, or his subjection into the hands of mortal men. The book also reveals the temptations that the Savior had to endure.

ID = [81067]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1982-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:02
Unattributed. “Conference on Warfare in the Book of Mormon.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Warfare
ID = [66500]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:38
Tvedtnes, John A. “Confession of Sins before Execution.” Insights 23, no. 5 (2003).
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Alma 1:15 records the execution of Nehor for the murder of Gideon: And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death.

Keywords: confession; Book of Mormon; execution; scriptures
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [66718]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-05  Collections:  bom,farms-insights  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:46
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: Baptism Early in America.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 1 (4 January 1934): 9-11.
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Catholic missionaries who arrived in America found the natives practicing baptism and were horrified. Some cultures sprinkled while others immersed the infant, but always it was meant to lead the individual toward a better life and salvation in the kingdom of God. These practices are explain by the Book of Mormon text that informs the reader that baptism was introduced early in America’s history. [J.W. M.]

ID = [81427]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-01-04  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: Eastern Culture in America.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 95, no. 48 (7 December 1933): 793-95.
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Growing amount of evidence shows that Columbus was late in his discovery of America. Ancient manuscripts indicate that the first inhabitants of America came from the East and that they had elephants as reported in the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, November 4.

ID = [81425]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1933-12-07  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:19
Harris, Fanklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: The Book of Mormon Plates.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 6 (8 February 1934): 91-93.
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Joseph Smith described the gold plates as having “the appearance of gold” The word “appearance” is significant as plates of pure gold would have been in danger of easy destruction. Most likely it was a gold and copper alloy. The Book of Mormon could have been written in Hebrew on just 21 pages or plates; in Phoenician characters about 45 plates would have been necessary, even taking into account the loss of the 116 pages.

ID = [81431]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-02-08  Collections:  bom,millennial-star,smith-joseph-jr  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: The Calendar in America.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 2 (11 January 1934): 25-27.
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The calendar developed by the Maya Indians began somewhere between 613 and 580 B.C., though it dates back to 3373 B.C., and was arranged by the deity Quetzalcoatl. The Book of Mormon people reckoned their time from the Savior’s birth. The date when Mayan history began and the correlation with the sign of the birth of deity are evidence of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81428]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-01-11  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: The Urim and Thummim.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 9 (1 March 1934): 134-35, 139-41.
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Harris cites evidence that many ancient American cultures used “seer stones” and breastplates that suggest a corrupt form of the Urim and Thummim used with the breastplate. He shows how many Indians from North America to Peru in South America used clear stones or crystals for divination.

ID = [81433]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-03-01  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: Traditions of the Virgin Birth in America.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 95, no. 50 (December 1933): 826-27.
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Lord Kingbrough (1830—1848), H. H. Bancroft, D. G. Brinton, Torquemanda, and Angus W. McKay found traditions of the virgin birth in the traditions of Mexico, the Otomies, and Navajo Indians. Other ancient peoples such as the Aztecs and the Indians of Paraguay believed in the virgin birth of their gods. This same belief was taught to ancient Americans in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81426]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1933-12-01  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: Transliteration—Hebrew in ‘Reformed Egyptian’” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 10 (8 March 1934): 154-56.
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Harris cites many examples of one language being written with another alphabet—transliteration. This he does to support the claim of the Book of Mormon that Hebrew was written with Reformed Egyptian characters (Mormon 9:32-33; 1 Nephi 1:2). Mentions the discovery by Sir Flinders Petrie of some writings in the Peninsula of Sinai that were in the Hebrew language but written “in Egyptian hieratic characters somewhat changed”

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
ID = [81434]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-03-08  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: Writing on Metal Plates in the New World.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 5 (1 February 1934): 74-76.
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Metal plates prepared by the ancients have been found in several locations in America. There are many historical accounts of metal plates that no longer exist as they were melted down to be used in other ways. Melvin J. Ballard describes plates seen in a museum in Lima, Peru, that were gold sheets, the size of the Book of Mormon plates (Deseret News April 30, 1932).

ID = [81430]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-02-01  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Harris, Franklin S., Jr. “Confirmatory Evidences of ‘Mormonism’: Writing on Metal Plates in the Old World.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 96, no. 4 (25 January 1934): 57-59.
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The Book of Mormon records that Lehi’s colony took brass plates upon which were recorded the record of the Jews and the genealogy of their forefathers. The British Museum has metal plates that are engraved with records of several different cultures.

ID = [81429]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1934-01-25  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:20
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Confirming Records of Moroni’s Coming.” Improvement Era 72, no. 9 (1969): 4-8.
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This article presents an analysis of the five published accounts of Moroni’s visits with Joseph Smith on the night of September 21-22, 1823. These accounts were dictated to secretaries with known record-keeping skills. The article carefully examines eight elements of the vision to create a composite description.

Keywords: Angel Moroni, Restoration, Vision
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76743]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1970-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:56
Sjodahl, Janne M. “Confirming the Book of Mormon.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 79, no. 1 (4 January 1917): 8-10.
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The Book of Mormon teaches of ancient connections between Asia and America. The article quotes G. Elliot Smith, who theorizes that a cultural migration took place from Egypt to ancient America, c. 900 b.c., citing archaeological evidence.

ID = [81359]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1917-01-04  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:16
Lewis, Gordon R. Confronting the Cults. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1966.
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A polemical work against Mormonism and other alleged cults. Numerous anachronisms and other problems with the Book of Mormon are discussed. Many of the same arguments are posed in the author’s work, The Bible, the Christian, and Latter-day Saints.

ID = [77717]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1966-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Gardner, Brant A. “Confusion of Tongues and a Map.” The FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): Article 5.
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Review of Robert A. Pate. Mapping the Book of Mormon: A Comprehensive Geography of Nephite America.

ID = [441]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-review  Size: 20585  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:47
Wardell, Julie. “Congratulations!” Friend 18 (December 1988): 21.
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For children, an award for reading the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79326]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1988-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Larson, Stan. “Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies 18, no. 4 (1978): 563.
ID = [9268]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1978-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 704  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:49
Skousen, Royal. “Conjectural Emendation in the Book of Mormon.” The FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 187-231.
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Royal Skousen explains what a critical text is and discusses his own critical text of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Conjectural Emendation; Critical Text; Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Textual Criticism
ID = [532]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 80994  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:52
Stott, G. St. John. “A Conjectural Reading of The Book of Mormon.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 42, no. 4 (2006): 447-458.
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This article claims that, although the Book of Mormon provides an explanation for American Indian origins, it “was primarily concerned with defining the factors underlying social progress, not the historical events that made such progress possible.” [Author]

Keywords: Smith, Joseph, Jr., American setting; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, American setting
ID = [82057]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55
Silver, Cherry B. “Connecting the Nephite Story to Mesoamerican Research.” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 23-34.
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Review of Images of Ancient America: Visualizing Book of Mormon Life (1998), by John L. Sorenson

Keywords: Ancient America; Book of Mormon Geography; Maya; Mesoamerica; Native Americans - Olmec
ID = [336]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 25116  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:41
Swift, Hales. “The Connection between Embodiment and Liberty in 2 Nephi 9:31-33.” The Interpreter Foundation website. February 12, 2020.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
ID = [6453]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-02-12  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 3851  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Welch, John W. “Connections Between the Visions of Lehi and Nephi.” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by Welch, John W., and Melvin J. Thorne, 49-53. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999.
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Keywords: Dream; Lehi (Prophet); Nephi (Son of Lehi); Tree of Life; Vision
ID = [75652]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size: 7319  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:55
Anderson, Robert D. “The Conquest of Humiliation: A Psychobiographical Inquiry into the Book of Mormon--Characters and Chronology.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 33, no. 1 (Spring, 2013): 154-169.
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The article outlines how and why the origins of the Book of Mormon once lay within the cerebral neocortex of its author, Joseph Smith, Jr., as it relates to the people and events that were a part of his life. It is said that psychobiography started with Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud’s attempt to analyze Italian scientist and artist Leonardo da Vinci in 1910. The explanation for complex behaviors in the history of Smith is that they were the result of supernatural commandments to him. It is noted that Smith claimed to supernaturally translate ancient Egyptian.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Smith, Joseph, Jr., psychohistory; Smith, Joseph, Jr., family life; Book of Mormon, authorship; Smith, Joseph, Jr., leg operation; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [82001]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:52
Merrell, Aaron. “Consecrate Thy Performance—Producing the Book of Mormon Videos.” University Forum, Brigham Young University—Idaho, February 18, 2021.
ID = [73003]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-02-18  Collections:  bom,byui-speeches  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:07:34
Woods, Fred E., and Jean G. Huysmans. “The Consecrated Service of Elder John W. F. Volker: The Netherlands Mission.” Religious Educator Vol. 17 no. 1 (2016).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1878–1945
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
RSC Topics > Q — S > Service
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [38459]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 97634  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:36
Gardner, Richard D. “Consecration Brings Forth Zion, Not Just Disaster Relief: An Examination of Scholarly and Prophetic Statements on the Law of Consecration.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 26 (2017): 123-226.
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Abstract: Active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints covenant to obey the law of consecration, and although I have long felt we discuss it too little, more Saints seem to be taking notice. Various historical and doctrinal opinions have been expressed on the law and on the “united order,” including some insightful and some unusual opinions by Kent W. Huff in his book Joseph Smith’s United Order.
Using this book along with the contributions of several other scholars and Church leaders as a basis for discussion, I explore the history, meaning, and future of the “united order” as part of the larger law of consecration. Starting as an eleven-man organization in charge of Church business and operating under consecration principles, the united order — actually called the united firm — transformed into the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to historians, most Church members did not even know of its existence, let alone participate in it. Traditional understanding is that the firm’s consecration model provided the pattern for the Saints to follow. An alternative interpretation, described by Kent Huff, is that the Saints’ only real attempt at a formal consecration effort was for disaster relief. In fact, according to Huff, the Saints in general did not deed their property to the Church as we’ve learned in Church history classes. He further argues that even the former-day Saints in the City of Enoch, the early Christians in Jerusalem, and the Nephites right after Christ’s visit didn’t really have all things in common in the way most of us have imagined. I disagree with this interpretation and provide evidence against it, but I appreciate the historical information and several philosophical insights that Huff provides. Other scholars and historians challenge the widely-held notions that 1) tithing is a lower law, given because the Saints failed to live the full law of consecration, and that 2) a formal form of consecration (the united order) will eventually return. I advocate instead for the traditional understanding of the law of consecration and stewardship as taught by Church leaders, believing it is the path toward both freedom and equality the world is looking for, and I explain why I believe it — or a similar program — will eventually be reinstated.

ID = [3680]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64713  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:07
Treat, Raymond C., and Mary K. Leeding. “The Consistency of Satan’s Tactics.” Zarahemla Record 62 (July/August 1992): 2-4.
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Summarizes the tactics and pitfalls of the three great anti-Christs, Sherem, Nehor, and Korihor. The blandishments resorted to by these three are recognizable today, both in and out of the church.

ID = [80437]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
McGavin, E. Cecil, and Arch S. Reynolds. “The Consistency of the Book of Mormon.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 101, no. 38 (21 September 1939): 602-3, 606.
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It would have been impossible for an uneducated farm boy to have written the text of the Book of Mormon without provincialism upon every page. Anachronisms and other errors are not part of it. Much information that has recently been uncovered by archaeologists support the book. Though Shakespeare was an accomplished writer his works contain modernized character’s attire.

ID = [81301]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1939-09-21  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:12
Weeks, Marvin E. Consolidated Concordance: Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Inspired Version of the Bible. Independence, MO: School of Saints, 1984.
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Contains hundreds of topics with scriptural cross-references from the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Inspired Version of the Bible.

ID = [77718]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1984-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Wilcox, Miranda. “Constructing Metaphoric Models of Salvation: Matthew 20 and the Middle English Poem Pearl.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 no. 1 (2011).
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The parable of the laborers in the vineyard in Matthew 20:1–6 demonstrates the possibilities and limitations of constructing metaphoric models of salvation. It also exposes the inadequacy of applying human economic analogies to divine relations and invites its audience to consider the function and purpose of using metaphors to understand spiritual concepts. An anonymous fourteenth-century Middle English poem called Pearl retells this parable and questions whether terrestrial concepts of value and exchange should frame salvation as a transaction based on merit. The poem demonstrates in metaphoric models that heavenly relationships, particularly salvation and grace, operate on a different scale, not one of terrestrial binary or comparative value but of celestial fulness.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [7026]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-sba  Size: 61876  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:37
Cannon, M. Hamlin. “Contemporary Views of Mormon Origins: (1830).” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 31 (September 1944): 261-66.
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Discusses a number of early views of the Mormon religion. E. D. Howe’s Mormonism Unveiled (1834) was not the irst piece of literary criticism against the Mormons as generally assumed. Editor Obadiah Dogberry, of the freethinking newspaper the Reflector, wrote on the Mormons before and after the oficial establishment of the Church (April 6, 1830) and the publication of the Book of Mormon (March, 1830).

ID = [79327]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1944-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Avant, Gerry. “Contention in the Land.” Church News 58 (16 July 1988): 14.
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Helaman 2 identifies Pahoran as a righteous man who sat upon the judgment seat and had to deal with great contention both within and without the government.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
ID = [79328]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1988-07-16  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Washburn, Jesse N. The Contents, Structure and Authorship of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1954.
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Analyzes the complex nature of the Book of Mormon, chapter by chapter, and looks at poetry, message, historical narrative, parables, and language. The Book of Mormon will stand any test for authenticity.

ID = [78460]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:13
Washburn, Jesse N. The Contents, Structure, and Authorship of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1954.
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This book considers the origins of the Book of Mormon, doing so through an intellectual lens. It discusses the complexity and consistency of the Book of Mormon text, its literary value, and its support of the Bible.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Bible and; Book of Mormon, origins; Book of Mormon, witnesses; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, authorship; Book of Mormon, literary context
ID = [81536]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Nutting, John Danforth. Contradictions in Mormon Books and Doctrine. Cleveland, OH: Utah Gospel Mission,n.d.
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Polemical pamphlet by a career Mormon critic, pointing out perceived contradictions between the Book of Mormon and LDS doctrines. The subjects deal largely with the nature of God.

ID = [77719]  Status = Type = book  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Rockwood, David L., and J. Gordon Daines III. “Contrasting the Leadership Styles of Moroni and Amalickiah.” Religious Educator Vol. 21 no. 2 (2020).
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [38333]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2020-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 59804  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:29
Treat, Raymond C. “The Convergence Pace Quickens: Barley Found in the New World.” Zarahemla Record 22-23 (Fall 1983 and Winter 1984): 1-3, 14-15.
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According to a scientific report, barley has been excavated from an ancient Indian site in Arizona. Such a discovery appears to be significant evidence of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [80439]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1983-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Treat, Raymond C. “The Convergence Pace Quickens: Barley Found in the New World.” In Recent Book of Mormon Development, Articles from Zarahemla Record, 1:15-17. Independence, MO: Zarahemla Research Foundation, 1992.
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According to a scientific report, barley has been excavated from an ancient Indian site in Arizona. Such a discovery appears to be significant evidence of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [80438]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:26
Rhodes, Michael D., and J. Ward Moody, eds. Converging Paths to Truth: The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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Many great scientists such as Newton and Einstein spoke and wrote freely of their religious thoughts and feelings, seeing no fundamental conflict between them and their science. Today there is a tendency to emphasize conflict more than harmony. Sometimes people of faith are criticized as blind, naive, or shallow, while scientists are painted as arrogant, unfeeling, or deceived. Educated dialogue between these two camps has too often been reduced to shallow platitudes or, even worse, silence. Truth is not in conflict with itself. Religious truth is established through revelation, and scientific inquiry has uncovered many facts that have thus far stood the test of time. It is incumbent upon us to seek insights into all truth to mesh together, where possible, its parts at their proper interface. We discover bridges between scientific and religious knowledge best if we pursue them through study, faith, and ongoing dialogue. The Summerhays lectures and this book are dedicated to discover and share insights on how the truths of revealed religion mesh with knowledge from the sciences. ISBN 978-0-8425-2786-6

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Ball, Terry B. “Faith and the Scientific Method.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 1–16. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Education
RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > L — P > Lifelong Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [35145]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30108  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Brown, Rodney J. “In Your Mind and in Your Heart.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 17–36. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35146]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37231  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Hansen, H. Kimball. “Concerning Astronomical References Found in the Scriptures.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 37–60. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
ID = [35147]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 44227  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Jones, Steven E. “A Brief Survey of Sir Isaac Newton’s Views on Religion.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 61–78. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Apostasy
RSC Topics > G — K > Godhead
ID = [35148]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 30486  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Millet, Robert L. “The Quest for Truth: Science and Religion in the Best of All Worlds.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 79–100. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Faith
RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Unity
ID = [35149]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43002  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Moody, J. Ward. “Time in Scripture and Science: A Conciliatory Key?” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 101–122. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
ID = [35150]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 40412  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:25
Rhodes, Michael D. “The Scriptural Accounts of the Creation: A Scientific Perspective.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 123–50. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the scriptural accounts of the Creation from a scientific point of view with particular emphasis on physics and astronomy, although of necessity I will also have to deal to some extent with biology, chemistry, and geology. The views expressed here are my own and are not meant to represent the views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Brigham Young University. They are a distillation of my thoughts and conclusions over two decades of teaching and research.

Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [4714]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 54752  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:50
Whiting, Michael F. “Evolution and the Gospel: Seeking Grandeur in This View of Life.” In Converging Paths to Truth: The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion, edited by Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 151–68. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.
Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
ID = [4498]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 35602  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:35
Ricks, Stephen D. “Converging Paths: Language and Cultural Notes on the Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Book of Mormon.” In Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Parry, Donald W., Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch, 389-419. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Early Church History; Hebraism; Nahom; Onomastics; Translation
ID = [75599]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size: 50265  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:52
Rappleye, Jasmin Gimenez. “A Conversation about Hugh Nibley with Jack Welch.” In Conversations about Hugh Nibley, by Jasmin Gimenez, Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, 8 April 2021. Video.
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Part of a six-part video series called Conversations about Hugh Nibley.
Learn more about Hugh Nibley by watching “A Conversation about Hugh Nibley with Jack Welch.” Enjoy the inspiring untold stories of his life and work in the new book Hugh Nibley Observed, available in hardcover, softcover, digital, and audio formats.

Jack Welch has been a firsthand participant in some of the most important Book of Mormon research. In addition, as the catalyst that led to the formation of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) in 1979, no one is in a better position than Jack to tell the stories of its beginning and the important role of Hugh Nibley in the organization and its publications, including the nineteen-volume Collected Works of Hugh Nibley.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Personal Appreciations
ID = [2372]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2021-04-02  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:42
Rappleye, Jasmin Gimenez. “A Conversation about Hugh Nibley with Kirk Magleby.” In Conversations about Hugh Nibley, by Jasmin Gimenez, Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, 8 April 2021. Video.
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Part of a six-part video series called Conversations about Hugh Nibley.
Enjoy the inspiring untold stories of Hugh Nibley’s life and work in the new book Hugh Nibley Observed, available in hardcover, softcover, digital, and audio formats.

In this video, Kirk Magleby, involved for many years with FARMS and a principal actor in Book of Mormon Central since its inception, recounts how Hugh Nibley was a model to Kirk and his friends from his formative years to the present day.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Personal Appreciations
ID = [2376]  Status = Type = video  Date = 2021-04-02  Collections:  bom,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:42
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. “A Conversation with Robert J. Matthews.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12 no. 2 (2003).
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Robert J. Matthews was influenced by the Book of Mormon to pursue his studies of the Joseph Smith Translation. He was intrigued by what the Book of Mormon said about the Bible. To further one’s understanding of the Book of Mormon, Matthews recommends further study on the Near East and an analysis of the internal structure of the book. Royal Skousen’s work on the comparative text, Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon writings, and articles in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism on the Book of Mormon are sources for increasing one’s knowledge of that book.

ID = [3129]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 22497  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
Baugh, Alexander L., and Reid L. Neilson, eds. Conversations with Mormon Historians. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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The sixteen interviews in this volume tell the stories of remarkable men and women who have made careers out of researching, writing, and teaching about the past. Friends and colleagues conducted these conversations over a decade or so. All were subsequently published in the Mormon Historical Studies journal or Religious Educator periodical, and now are brought together as a single book of personal essays. As we review and reflect on the personal lives and remarkable careers featured in this volume, we sense that many of these historians feel that they were prepared or given a definite sense of mission. Both editors, who are becoming foremost Church historians in their own right, have been the beneficiaries of many mentors in the field and the recipients of a remarkable heritage of Mormon historians who have taken them under their wings and helped them become contributors to the telling of LDS history. ISBN 978-0-8425-2890-0

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
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Articles

Hall, Dave, and Thomas G. Alexander. “Thomas G. Alexander.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, 1–32. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34733]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 60260  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Smith, Alex D., and James B. Allen. “James B. Allen.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Vision
ID = [34734]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 70456  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Darowski, Joseph F., Kay Darowski, and Richard Lloyd Anderson. “Richard Lloyd Anderson.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34735]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 62441  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Harper, Steven C., and Milton V. Backman Jr. “Milton V. Backman.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > First Vision
ID = [34736]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 37272  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Baugh, Alexander L., and LaMar C. Berrett. “LaMar C. Berrett.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34737]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 34206  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Frederickson, Kristine Wardle, and Claudia L. Bushman. “Claudia L. Bushman.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34738]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 55882  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Woodworth, Jed L., and Richard Lyman Bushman. “Richard Lyman Bushman.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34739]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 92519  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Godfrey, Matthew C., and Kenneth W. Godfrey. “Kenneth W. Godfrey.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34740]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 79633  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Jensen, Robin Scott, and Dean C. Jessee. “Dean C. Jessee.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [34741]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Ward, Maurine Carr, and Stanley B. Kimball. “Stanley B. Kimball.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34742]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 76786  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Madsen, Carol C., and Sheree Maxwell Bench. “Carol Cornwall Madsen.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34743]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 65933  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Baugh, Alexander L., and Robert J. Matthews. “Robert J. Matthews.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures
ID = [34744]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 43234  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:00
Baugh, Alexander L., and Max H. Parkin. “Max H Parkin.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith
ID = [34745]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 79380  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Peterson, John A., and Charles S. Peterson. “Charles S. Peterson.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34746]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 85432  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Walker, Kyle R., and Larry C. Porter. “Larry C. Porter.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
ID = [34747]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 67764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Williams, Nathan H., and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. “Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.” In Conversations with Mormon Historians, eds. Alexander L. Baugh and Reid L. Neilson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > Women
ID = [34748]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 53907  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:32:01
Gore, David Charles. “Conversing and Calling in Alma 12 and 13.” In A Preparatory Redemption: Reading Alma 12-13, edited by Bowman, Matthew, and Demos, Rosemary. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2018.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [81737]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bom,mi  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:37
Hopkin, Fred W. “Conversion in Honduras.” Friend 18 (October 1988): 32-33.
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A picture story illustrating the conversion of a Central American girl through the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79329]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1988-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Townshend, George. The Conversion of Mormonism. Hartford, CT: Simonds, 1911.
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A polemical work against Mormonism. The author notes various traces of environmental influences in the Book of Mormon such as modern theological ideas and anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic material.

ID = [78461]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1911-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:13
Morris, Larry E. “The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16 no. 1 (2007).
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Shortly after arriving in New York and beginning employment as a schoolteacher in 1828, Oliver Cowdery first learned about Joseph Smith and the gold plates through rumors and gossip. Through the sincere investigations of Oliver and his newfound friend, David Whitmer, and his time as a boarder with the Joseph Smith family in Palmyra, Oliver continued to learn about Joseph and the plates. He received a personal witness and traveled with Samuel Smith to visit Joseph in Harmony. Several events involving Martin Harris, David Whitmer, Joseph Knight Sr., and the Smith family all played a role in Oliver’s conversion, and on April 7, Joseph and Oliver began the translation of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3201]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 66423  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:31
Von Harrison, Grant. The Conversion Power of the Book of Mormon. Orem, UT: Accor, 1988.
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A handbook for missionary-minded people who want to use the Book of Mormon as a tool of conversion.

ID = [78462]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:13
McKay, David O., and Richard L. Evans. “Conversions through the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 63, no. 11 (1960): 814-815, 836.
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The article reprints three earlier published recollections of the profound converting effects of the Book of Mormon in the lives of three prominent early LDS personalities—Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards, and Parley P. Pratt. Wilford Woodruff received his testimony in a missionary meeting held in a village schoolhouse. Willard Richards was touched by the Lord after reading the entire Book of Mormon twice in just ten days. Parley Pratt read the Book of Mormon straight through, non-stop, day and night, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he knew it was true.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, Conversion, Pratt, Parley P., Richards, Willard, Testimony, Woodruff, Wilford
ID = [76876]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1960-11-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:03
Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “Convert to the Truth.” Friend 16 (August 1986): 48-49.
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A children’s story of Alma, Amulek, and Zeezrom (Alma 11-15, 31).

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [79330]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1986-08-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Goates, Claudia T. “Converted after Years of Membership.” Ensign, September 1977.
ID = [43801]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1977-09-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 10868  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:49:48
England, Eugene. Converted to Christ through the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989.
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A compilation of various individuals’ experiences with the Book of Mormon. The work is divided into three main sections: (1) the Book of Mormon family-to-family program in which families provide gift copies of the Book of Mormon to others; (2) stories of persons being converted to the Book of Mormon; and (3) reconversion stories of lifetime members of the Church.

ID = [77720]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Harris, Russell C. “A Converter of Souls.” Instructor 97 (July 1962): 232-33.
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On many occasions the Book of Mormon has converted practicing Christians to the LDS faith. Moroni’s promise (Moroni 10:3-5) applies to all.

ID = [78869]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1962-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Hamilton, Kevin S. “The Converting Power of the Book of Mormon.” Ensign, January 2016.
ID = [61327]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 8151  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:44
Von Harrison, Grant. Converting with the Book of Mormon: A Guide for Missionaries. Woods Cross, UT: Publishers Book Sales, 1981.
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A twenty-one page booklet designed to assist the missionary in becoming skilled in “using the Book of Mormon in every aspect of his proselytizing activities” Missionaries are told of the importance of reading the Book of Mormon with investigators and committing investigators to read the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77721]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1981-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Walton, Geri. “Converts Thank Prophet, Wife.” Church News 57 (12 September 1987): 12.
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Reports on the influence that President Benson’s written testimony within a Book of Mormon had upon a family in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

ID = [79331]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1987-09-12  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Unattributed. “A Convincing Analysis of the Fraudulent ‘Book of Mormon’” Sound Words (June 1946): 1-3.
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An essay consisting largely of polemical arguments of Clark Braden against the Book of Mormon. Argues that the Book of Mormon contains anachronisms, Elizabethan mediated Hebraisms, and Americanisms. Places credit for the Book of Mormon on Sidney Rigdon, a revivalist preacher.

ID = [78870]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1946-06-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Dibble, Charles E. “Copilco—Ancient Burying Ground.” Improvement Era 45, no. 10 (1942): 613.
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A series of brief comments in which the author presents archaeological findings, architectural notes, and myths and legends that deal indirectly with the Book of Mormon. Dibble discusses the wheel, ancient irrigation methods, metals, Mexican and Mayan codices, Quetzalcoatl, ancient buildings, and numerous other related items. The seventeenth part covers the ancient cemetery at Copilco.

Keywords: Ancient America — Mesoamerica, Archaeology, Burial, Mexico, Volcanic Eruption
ID = [76946]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1942-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:07
Phillips, W. Revell. “Copper, Bronze, and Brass.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9 no. 2 (2000).
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Although Nephi’s tools were most likely made of iron or steel, bronze remains a possibility. The making of brass or bronze requires the creation of a copper alloy, and examples of such alloys are found in both the Old World and the New World. The nature of the alloys differed depending on the minerals available.

ID = [3042]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 9083  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:22
Wadsworth, Nathaniel H. “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 45, no. 3 (2006): 77.
ID = [11382]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-03  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 37413  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:04
Buchmiller, Golden A. “Copyrights Halt Illegal Publication of the Book of Mormon.” Church News 50 (1 March 1980): 10.
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Celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first printing of the Book of Mormon. Also tells how Joseph Smith stopped a local newspaper from printing parts of the Book of Mormon by using his copyrights that he had secured.

ID = [79333]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1980-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Smith, Sherrie Kline. “Cop‡n Carvings Depict Nephite/Lamanite Warfare Methods.” The Witness: Newsletter of the Foundation for Research on Ancient America 69 (Summer 1990): 12-13.
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After viewing carvings that depicted women as victims of war in Cop‡n, Honduras, the author better understood passages in Mormon and Moroni concerning the final destruction of the Nephites.

ID = [79332]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1990-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Horatio. “Corianton.” Contributor 10 (1889): 171-76, 206-10, 245-48, 286-90, 324-30.
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A fictional story about Corianton and his dealings with Korihor, the people of Ammon, Shiblon, and Isabel.

ID = [79334]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Larson, Clinton F. Corianton and Moroni. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1961.
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Two dramatic plays using Book of Mormon material showing the “tragic potential in the parallel destructions of the peoples of Jared and Nephi”

ID = [77722]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1961-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, a Nephite Story.” Contributor 10 (March–July 1889): 171, 206, 245, 286, 324.
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Corianton was first published as a serial in the Contributor, 1889. At that time the story was well received by a large circle of readers and the Author was urged by many of his friends to continue in that line of composition, as much good might come of it. A call came to engage in other work, however, and the delightful field just entered had to be abandoned. During the years that have intervened since the first publication of the story, many have inquired if Corianton would not appear in booklet form, to which the Author always replied in the affirmative, but without being able to say when the time of publication would come. Since the simple Nephite story, however, promises to become famous through Mr. O. U. Bean’s dramatization of it, many—I may say very many—have expressed a desire of forming the acquaintance of Corianton as he first appeared; and hence the Author presents Corianton, the Nephite.

ID = [77333]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-03-01  Collections:  bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Roberts, B. H. Corianton, a Nephite Story. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902.
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Corianton was first published as a serial in the Contributor, 1889. At that time the story was well received by a large circle of readers and the Author was urged by many of his friends to continue in that line of composition, as much good might come of it. A call came to engage in other work, however, and the delightful field just entered had to be abandoned. During the years that have intervened since the first publication of the story, many have inquired if Corianton would not appear in booklet form, to which the Author always replied in the affirmative, but without being able to say when the time of publication would come. Since the simple Nephite story, however, promises to become famous through Mr. O. U. Bean’s dramatization of it, many—I may say very many—have expressed a desire of forming the acquaintance of Corianton as he first appeared; and hence the Author presents Corianton, the Nephite.

ID = [77334]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1902-01-01  Collections:  bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter I.” The Contributor 10, no. 5 (1889): 171-176.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. Korihor is brought forth for judgment in the city of Zarahemla. Corianton and his brother Shiblon discuss the proceedings, with the former taking the side of the Nephite Anti-Christ and dismissing the teachings of his fathers. Instead of accompanying his brother in planning for the upcoming mission to the Zoramites, Corianton goes off on his own to visit Korihor in prison.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76483]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-03-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:41
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter I.” The Contributor 10, no. 5 (1889): 171-176.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. Korihor is brought forth for judgment in the city of Zarahemla. Corianton and his brother Shiblon discuss the proceedings, with the former taking the side of the Nephite Anti-Christ and dismissing the teachings of his fathers. Instead of accompanying his brother in planning for the upcoming mission to the Zoramites, Corianton goes off on his own to visit Korihor in prison.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76007]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-03-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:15
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter II.” The Contributor 10, no. 6 (1889): 206-210.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. To the grief of his father, Corianton is among the supporters of Korihor that accompanies him to his trial. Although acquitted by the law of the land, Korihor initiates a conflict with the High Priest, Alma the Younger, who boldly declares his testimony and witness of God. Korihor demands a sign, and receives one in being struck dumb and losing his ability to speak. Seeing he has lost his supporters, he flees. As the people disperse, Alma the Younger goes to speak with his son.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76484]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-04-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:41
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter II.” The Contributor 10, no. 6 (1889): 206-210.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. To the grief of his father, Corianton is among the supporters of Korihor that accompanies him to his trial. Although acquitted by the law of the land, Korihor initiates a conflict with the High Priest, Alma the Younger, who boldly declares his testimony and witness of God. Korihor demands a sign, and receives one in being struck dumb and losing his ability to speak. Seeing he has lost his supporters, he flees. As the people disperse, Alma the Younger goes to speak with his son.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76009]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-04-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:15
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter III.” The Contributor 10, no. 7 (1889): 245-248.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. Corianton joins the mission to the Zoramites. While he is an effective missionary, he has not been fully converted to all the principles of the gospel, and is beset by pride. In the streets of Antionum, he encounters the crazed Korihor, who is trampled by the horses of the city guardsman before his eyes. Embittered by what he percieves as a lack of mercy on the part of the Lord, he returns to his lodging at the home of one of the chief Zoramites and is confronted by a woman who says she has been looking for him.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76485]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-05-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:41
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter III.” The Contributor 10, no. 7 (1889): 245-248.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. Corianton joins the mission to the Zoramites. While he is an effective missionary, he has not been fully converted to all the principles of the gospel, and is beset by pride. In the streets of Antionum, he encounters the crazed Korihor, who is trampled by the horses of the city guardsman before his eyes. Embittered by what he percieves as a lack of mercy on the part of the Lord, he returns to his lodging at the home of one of the chief Zoramites and is confronted by a woman who says she has been looking for him.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76010]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-05-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:15
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter IV.” The Contributor 10, no. 8 (1889): 286-290.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. Corianton walks with the woman, who introduces herself as Joan of Siron, and claims she is kin to Seantum, the Zoramite with whom he is lodging. She flatters him and appeals to his vanity. He joins her in a party at the house of Seantum, dancing with her and partaking of wine. She departs after midnight, wherein he feels guilt at his indiscretion and how the other missionaries would react to it, but he continues among the other revellers until he passes out.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76486]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-06-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:41
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter IV.” The Contributor 10, no. 8 (1889): 286-290.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. Corianton walks with the woman, who introduces herself as Joan of Siron, and claims she is kin to Seantum, the Zoramite with whom he is lodging. She flatters him and appeals to his vanity. He joins her in a party at the house of Seantum, dancing with her and partaking of wine. She departs after midnight, wherein he feels guilt at his indiscretion and how the other missionaries would react to it, but he continues among the other revellers until he passes out.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76011]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-06-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:15
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter V.” The Contributor 10, no. 9 (1889): 324-330.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. The next morning, Corianton encounters his brother Shiblon, who exhorts him to flee and tells him that he was reported in the company of the harlot Isabel the night before. Corianton protests his innocence, and does not believe his brother, who is shortly thereafter arrested by Seantum for slandering his family. Seeing his father and Ammon pursued by a mob and mocked for his own actions, Corianton is ashamed and confronts Joan, now revealed as the harlot Isabel. She convinces him to come with her to the land of Siron. In the aftermath of his departure, the mission to the Zoramites departs the city, soon to be followed by the believers among the Zoramites, who are cast out by their brethren. In the land of Siron, Isabel reveals her true colors to Corianton and orders him beaten and taken in bonds to the land of Jershon. There, he is stoned by the refugees of Antionum, until rescued by his brother Shiblon. As he recovers, he is taught the great fundamental truths of the gospel by his father Alma the Younger, and is finally humbled.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76487]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:41
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton, Chapter V.” The Contributor 10, no. 9 (1889): 324-330.
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A fictional portrayal of events in the life of Corianton, one of the sons of Alma the Younger. The next morning, Corianton encounters his brother Shiblon, who exhorts him to flee and tells him that he was reported in the company of the harlot Isabel the night before. Corianton protests his innocence, and does not believe his brother, who is shortly thereafter arrested by Seantum for slandering his family. Seeing his father and Ammon pursued by a mob and mocked for his own actions, Corianton is ashamed and confronts Joan, now revealed as the harlot Isabel. She convinces him to come with her to the land of Siron. In the aftermath of his departure, the mission to the Zoramites departs the city, soon to be followed by the believers among the Zoramites, who are cast out by their brethren. In the land of Siron, Isabel reveals her true colors to Corianton and orders him beaten and taken in bonds to the land of Jershon. There, he is stoned by the refugees of Antionum, until rescued by his brother Shiblon. As he recovers, he is taught the great fundamental truths of the gospel by his father Alma the Younger, and is finally humbled.

Keywords: Corianton (Son of Alma the Younger), Fiction
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [76012]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1889-07-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:15
Roberts, B. H. “Corianton: A Nephite Story.” Salt Lake City: n.p., 1902.
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A fictional narrative based on the Book of Mormon story of Corianton found in the book of Alma.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [77723]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1902-01-01  Collections:  bom,roberts  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Bean, Orestes U. “Corianton: An Aztec Romance.” Salt Lake City: n.p., 1902?.
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A romantic drama (written in four acts) based upon the trial of Korihor, the Anti-Christ.

ID = [77724]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1902-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Hinckley, Gordon B. “The Cornerstones of Our Faith.” Delivered at the Sunday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1984.
ID = [15471]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1984-10-01  Collections:  bom,general-conference  Size: 17561  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:14:32
Hinckley, Gordon B. “The Cornerstones of Our Faith.” Ensign, November 1984.
ID = [46880]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1984-11-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 17456  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:50:10
Ricks, Stephen D. “The Coronation of Kings.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon: A Decade of New Research, ed. John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1992.
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Keywords: Ancient Near East; Coronation; King Benjamin; King Mosiah; Nephite Kingship
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [66477]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:01:37
Hilton, John L., and Janet F. Hilton. “A Correlation of the Sidon River and the Lands of Manti and Zarahemla with the Southern End of the Rio Grijalva (San Miguel).” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 1 no. 1 (1992).
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We construct a detailed geographical model of the Nephite homeland areas of Manti, Zarahemla, and the river Sidon using the Book of Mormon text of around 80 BC. This model assumes that these areas are located in Mesoamerica, that the names of their surrounding seas do not necessarily correspond to local compass directions, and that the directions stated in the text are to be understood in the nontechnical normal English sense. We then describe the southern end of the Grijalva river basin, located across the southern part of the Mexico–Guatemala border. We nominate this area as a possible candidate for the ancient Nephite homeland because it corresponds to the text’s topography from the most general to the most detailed parts of the description. Furthermore, significant geographical and climatic changes in this area over the last 2,000 years are unlikely. The number and detail of the topological matches encourage further careful study.

ID = [2819]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-jbms  Size: 48619  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:06
Smith, Joseph, Jr. “Correspondence.” Times and Seasons Vol. 4, no. 13: May 15, 1843: 194.
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A letter to the editor written by Joseph Smith in rebuttal to the allegation that the word “Mormon” was translated from a Greek word. Joseph interprets the word “Mormon” to mean “more good” He attests that the language from which the plates were translated was Reformed Egyptian. He reaffirms the divine intervention of God in the translation process.

ID = [80894]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1843-01-02  Collections:  bom,smith-joseph-jr,times-seasons  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:52
Carlisle, J. E. “Corroborating the Book of Mormon.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 52, no. 20 (19 May 1890): 312-14.
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Argues that archaeological evidences that predate Columbus indicate that two distinct races once inhabited the Americas. This and other indings corroborate the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [81003]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1890-05-19  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:58
Millennial Star Staff. “Corroborative Evidence.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 62, no. 49 (6 December 1900): 783-84.
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The historical and religious portions of the Book of Mormon cannot be separated. External evidence veriies the historical portions. New York World reports a mound where a tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, “sarcophagi,” pottery and pictures that resemble that flood story, and characters resembling Egyptian and Assyrian writing were found.

ID = [81021]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1900-12-06  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:59
Olsen, Steven L. “Cosmic Urban Symbolism in the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies 23, no. 1 (1983): 79.
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Ancient world civilizations believed that the perceived order of territorial environment, in its “natural” and built-up features, revealed the structure of a sacred universe. The epitome of this symbolic order was a capital city or ceremonial center. “In those religions which held that human order was brought into being at the creation of the world there was a pervasive tendency to dramatize the cosmogony by constructing on earth a reduced version of the cosmos, usually in the form of a state capital.” Characteristic of complex societies throughout the ancient world, this phenomenon is referred to as cosmic urban symbolism. The principles of cosmic urban symbolism account for many ideas and events in the Book of Mormon which are otherwise unexplained within a nineteenth-century American context.

Keywords: Cosmic; Symbolism
ID = [9065]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1983-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,byu-studies  Size: 1094  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:48
Turner, Jule Ann Bishop. “Costumes of Ancient Meso-America: An Art and Research Project.” Closure Project (B.I.S.), Brigham Young University, Dept. of Independent Studies, 1990.
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Investigates the use of silk and cotton in Mesoamerica, considering a Book of Mormon time frame and geographical context. Discusses weaving and dyeing processes and symbols incorporated in costumes and clothing.

ID = [79335]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 0000-00-00  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Daines, Robert H. “Cotton and the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 65, no. 10 (1962): 722-724, 751-753.
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This article gives evidence that indicates that cotton seeds from the Old World were transported across the ocean and interbred with wild cotton plants to produce a superior New World plant that was then cultivated.

Keywords: Agriculture, Fabric, Textiles
ID = [76973]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1962-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:09
McKay, Robert A. “Could a Man Have Written It?” The Evangel 39 (October 1992): 12.
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Points out that even if the Book of Mormon was inspired, it was written by a man or men. Because it contains false doctrine and anachronisms the Book of Mormon is clearly not an inspired work.

ID = [79336]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1992-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Johnson, Paul V. Could He Have Written It?. Gladbrook, IA: Vanity, 197?.
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A self-published tract arguing that Joseph Smith did not write the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77725]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1970-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Arnett, Josh. “Could I Share a Book of Mormon?” Ensign, December 2013.
ID = [60400]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2013-12-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 1214  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:38
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?: Recent Updates on a Persistent Question.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 305-374.
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Abstract: In this article, we offer a general critique of scholarship that has argued for Joseph Smith’s reliance on 1 Enoch or other ancient pseudepigrapha for the Enoch chapters in the Book of Moses. Our findings highlight the continued difficulties of scholars to sustain such arguments credibly. Following this general critique, we describe the current state of research relating to what Salvatore Cirillo took to be the strongest similarity between Joseph Smith’s chapters on Enoch and the Qumran Book of Giants — namely the resemblance between the name Mahawai in the Book of Giants and Mahujah/Mahijah in Joseph Smith’s Enoch account. We conclude this section with summaries of conversations of Gordon C. Thomasson and Hugh Nibley with Book of Giants scholar Matthew Black about these names. Next, we explain why even late and seemingly derivative sources may provide valuable new evidence for the antiquity of Moses 6–7 or may corroborate details from previously known Enoch sources. By way of example, we summarize preliminary research that compares passages in Moses 6–7 to newly available ancient Enoch texts from lesser known sources. We conclude with a discussion of the significance of findings that situate Joseph Smith’s Enoch account in an ancient milieu. Additional work is underway to provide a systematic and detailed analysis of ancient literary affinities in Moses 6–7, including an effort sponsored by Book of Mormon Central in collaboration with The Interpreter Foundation.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
ID = [3570]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64360  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:58
Eck, Nichole. “Counsel Together Oft: Family Councils for Couples.” Ensign, January 2015.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [60858]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 7552  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:41
Keyes, Randy. “Counseling Together in Marriage.” Ensign, June 2012.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [59737]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2012-06-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 9361  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:54:15
Scoville, Monte C. “Counseling With the Lord.” Instructor 98 (March 1963): 104-5.
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Seeking a testimony with real intent and counseling with the Lord allows a testimony of the Book of Mormon to grow.

ID = [79337]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1963-03-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Arp, Nathan J. “Count Your Many Mormons: Mormon’s Personalized and Personal Messages in Mosiah 18 and 3 Nephi 5.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 75-86.
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Abstract: The present work analyzes the narrative art Mormon employs, specifically Mormon’s unique strategies for personalized and personal messaging, which can be seen in how Mormon connects the narration of the baptism at the waters of Mormon in Mosiah chapter 18 with his self- introductory material in 3 Nephi chapter 5. In these narratives, Mormon seems to simultaneously present an overt personalized message about Christ and a covert personal connection to Alma1 through the almost excessive repetition of his own name. Mormon discreetly plants evidence to suggest his intention for the careful re-reader to discover that Mormon was a 12th generation descendant of the first Alma. Mormon’s use of personalizing and personal messages lends emotive power to his narratives and shines a light on Mormon’s love for Christ’s church.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Topics > Persons and Peoples > Mormon
Book of Mormon Topics > Places > Americas > Book of Mormon Geography > Waters of Mormon
ID = [3450]  Status = Checked by JA Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 25623  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:49
Lund, Gerald N. “Countering Korihor’s Philosophy.” Ensign, July 1992.
ID = [50580]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1992-07-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 18211  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:46:08
Welch, John W. “Counting to Ten.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 2 (2003): 42-57, 113-114.
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The regular occurrence of things occurring ten times in the scriptures tends to relate to perfection, especially divine completion. Welch approaches this phenomenon through ten topics: perfection, worthiness, consecration, testing, justice, reverence, penitence, atonement, supplication, and ascension into the holy of holies or highest degree of heaven. The significance of the number ten in the ancient world relates to the tenfold occurrences in the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Ancient Near East; Atonement; Consecration; Justice; Law of; Perfection; Reverence
ID = [3125]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,welch  Size: 70050  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:26
Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “Courage to Believe.” Friend 15 (October 1985): 48-49.
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The conversion of Alma, priest of Noah and his ministry at the waters of Mormon (Mosiah 18:23-25) is the topic of this children’s story.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [79338]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1985-10-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Reynolds, Noel B. “Covenant Language in Biblical Religions and the Book of Mormon.” Brigham Young University Studies Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2022): 139.
ID = [12731]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2022-01-02  Collections:  bom,byu-studies  Size: 69707  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:13:12
Olsen, Steven L. “The Covenant of Christ’s Gospel in the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 283-318.
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Abstract: With the trained eye of an anthropologist and a historian, Steven Olsen refutes claims that the Book of Mormon is a simple hodge-podge of biblical phrases and responses to controversies that Joseph Smith absorbed from his surroundings. Through a careful discussion of four main claims, he illustrates his thesis that the Book of Mormon “evidences a high degree of focus and coherence, as though its principal writers intentionally crafted the record from a unified and comprehensive perspective.” He shows that the Book of Mormon is not merely a history in the conventional sense, but rather is purposeful in the selection and expression of its core themes.
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.See Steven L. Olsen, “The Covenant of Christ’s Gospel in the Book of Mormon,” in “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Essays in Honor of John W. Welch, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2017), 209–46. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/to-seek-the-law-of-the-lord-essays-in-honor-of-john-w-welch-2/.].

Topics:    Book of Mormon Topics > Literary and Textual Studies > Writing
ID = [3476]  Status = Checked by JA Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64109  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:52
Olsen, Steven L. “The Covenant of the Chosen People: The Spiritual Foundations of Ethnic Identity in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 14-29.
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The literary sophistication of the Book of Mormon is manifest at all levels of the text: vocabulary, rhetoric, narrative, and structure. A prime example of this craftsmanship is the concept of ethnicity, that is, how different social groups are defined and distinguished in the record. Nephi defines ethnicity by four complementary concepts: nation (traditional homeland), kindred (descent group), tongue (language group), and people (covenant community). While all four concepts are relevant to the Nephite record, people predominates. The term people is by far the most frequently used noun in the Book of Mormon and is the basis of a distinctive covenant identity given by God to Nephi. Following God’s law was the essential condition of this covenant and the basis of most of the sermons, exhortations, commentary, and other spiritual pleas of this sacred record. The covenant of the chosen people accounts for much of what befalls the Nephites and Lamanites, positive and negative, in this history. Mormon and Moroni follow Nephi’s covenant-based definition of ethnicity in their respective abridgments of the large plates of Nephi and the plates of Ether.

Keywords: Chosen People; Covenant; Ethnicity; Kindred; Lamanite; Large Plates of Nephi; Nation; Nephite; People; Plates of Ether; Tongue
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [3280]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 64777  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Olsen, Steven L. “The Covenant of the Promised Land: Territorial Symbolism in the Book of Mormon.” FARMS Review 22, no. 2 (2010): 137-154.
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The symbolism of land and its covenantal associations are viewed as guiding structural elements in the Book of Mormon narrative. Involving “existential space” more than “geometric space,” the concept of land is central to an understanding of the book as a sacred, covenant-based record.

Keywords: Covenant; Land; Leitworter; Record; Symbolism
ID = [659]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 43047  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:02
Halverson, Taylor. “The Covenant Path in the Bible and the Book of Mormon.” Paper presented at the 2020 FairMormon Conference. August, 2020.
ID = [32684]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2020-08-01  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:50
Halverson, Taylor. “Covenant Patterns in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon.” In BMAF-BMC Book of Mormon Conference. Provo, UT: Book of Mormon Central , 2017.
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Taylor Halverson presents Covenant Patterns in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon

Keywords: Ancient Near East, Covenant, King David, Kingship, Old Testament
ID = [76673]  Status = Type = conference paper  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:52
Ludlow, Victor L. “Covenant Teachings in the Book of Mormon.” In The Fulness of the Gospel, eds. Camille Fronk Olson, Brian M. Hauglid, Patty Smith, and Thomas A. Wayment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.
ID = [36239]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:33:29
Ludlow, Victor L. “Covenant Teachings of the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994. Transcript of a lecture presented as part of the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series.
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Victor Ludlow shows that covenants are prominent in the scriptures. He distinguishes between horizontal covenants, which take place between individuals, and vertical covenants, which take place between God and mortals. He discusses what it means to “cut a covenant” and its various applications. He notes how covenants entail requirements that find expression in obedience or disobedience with the consequences of blessings or punishments. He comments on how in 3 Nephi the Savior devotes significant time to speaking about covenants directly or dealing with subjects that are rooted in covenants, such as the teachings found in the Sermon at the Temple, which corresponds to the Sermon on the Mount. Charts and graphs are included.

Keywords: Book of Mormon Teachings
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
ID = [8415]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-reports  Size: 213  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:43
Ludlow, Victor L. “Covenant Teachings of the Book of Mormon.” In The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 67-93. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Keywords: Covenant
ID = [75498]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:49
Ostler, Blake T. “The Covenant Tradition in the Book of Mormon.” In Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, edited by Sorenson, John L., and Melvin J. Thorne, 230-240. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991.
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The Book of Mormon displays examples of ceremony or ritual that accurately reflect the ritual tradition followed by the ancient Israelites. Many similarities are found, in addition to some differences. It is highly unlikely that any person could accurately write about Israel’s rituals and covenants without having been directly and intimately familiar with them.

Keywords: Covenant; Festival; Tradition
ID = [75637]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1991-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-books  Size: 21383  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:54
Tanner, Jerald. “A Cover-Up Revealed: Joseph Smith’s Attempt to Save the Book of Mormon.” Salt Lake City Messenger 74 (February 1990): 1-13.
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Article advertising the author’s book Covering Up The Black Hole in the Book of Mormon. Suggests that there is too much emphasis on Christ in the “Old Testament portion” of the Book of Mormon, gives examples of how Joseph Smith plagiarized from the Bible, and claims that a lack of Jewish festivals in the Book of Mormon proves its Protestant origin.

ID = [78871]  Status = Type = newsletter article  Date = 1990-02-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Tanner, Jerald, and Sandra Tanner. Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1990.
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The authors provide “devastating” evidence that the Book of Mormon is a product of the 19th century. Upon losing the 116 pages of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith generalized information because he could not remember all the details of his original 116 pages. In order to further fill in this gap Smith plagiarized from the Bible in order to save his work. The presence of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon is unimpressive because similar structures can be found in Joseph Smith’s writings. This work is reviewed in N.145, T.335, and in R.468.

ID = [77726]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1990-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Nicholson, Roger. “The Cowdery Conundrum: Oliver’s Aborted Attempt to Describe Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 1834 and 1835.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 27-44.
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Abstract: In 1834, Oliver Cowdery began publishing a history of the Church in installments in the pages of the Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. The first installment talks of the religious excitement and events that ultimately led to Joseph Smith’s First Vision at age 14. However, in the subsequent installment published two months later, Oliver claims that he made a mistake, correcting Joseph’s age from 14 to 17 and failing to make any direct mention of the First Vision. Oliver instead tells the story of Moroni’s visit, thus making it appear that the religious excitement led to Moroni’s visit.
This curious account has been misunderstood by some to be evidence that the “first” vision that Joseph claimed was actually that of the angel Moroni and that Joseph invented the story of the First Vision of the Father and Son at a later time. However, Joseph wrote an account of his First Vision in 1832 in which he stated that he saw the Lord, and there is substantial evidence that Oliver had this document in his possession at the time that he wrote his history of the Church. This essay demonstrates the correlations between Joseph Smith’s 1832 First Vision account, Oliver’s 1834/1835 account, and Joseph’s 1835 journal entry on the same subject. It is clear that not only did Oliver have Joseph’s history in his possession but that he used Joseph’s 1832 account as a basis for his own account. This essay also shows that Oliver knew of the First Vision and attempted to obliquely refer to the event several times in his second installment before continuing with his narrative of Moroni’s visit.
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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [4314]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 33150  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:23
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Cowdery, Oliver.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
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Keywords: Cowdery, Oliver, Early Church History, Restoration, Three Witnesses, Translation
ID = [74383]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,eom  Size: 17822  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:08:48
Smith, Gregory L. “Cracking the Book of Mormon’s ‘Secret Combinations’?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 13 (2014): 63-109.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon has been explained by some as a product of Joseph Smith’s 19th century environment. Advocates of this thesis have argued that the phrase secret combinations is a reference to Freemasonry, and reflects Joseph’s preoccupation with this fraternity during the Book of Mormon’s composition in 1828–29. It is claimed that this phrase is rarely, if ever, used in a non-Masonic context during 1828–29, and that a type of “semantic narrowing” occurred which restricted the term to Freemasonry. Past studies have found a few counter-examples, which are reviewed, but none from during the precise years of interest. This study describes many newly-identified counterexamples, including: anti-Masonic authors who use the term to refer to non-Masonic groups, books translated in the United States, legislature bills, grand jury instructions, and works which so characterize slave rebellions, various historical groups and movements, Biblical figures, and religious groups. These examples are found before, during, and after the critical 1828–29 period. Examples from 1832 onward likewise demonstrate that no semantic shift occurred which restricted secret combination to Masonry. This element of the environmental hypothesis has now been robustly disproven.

ID = [4268]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64677  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:19
Christianson, James R. “Crawfish Tails, Possum, and Other Missionary Delights.” Ensign, April 1989.
ID = [48995]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1989-04-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 12688  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:52:17
Ensign. “Creating a Joyful Marriage—Together.” Ensign March 2016.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [61401]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2016-03-01  Collections:  bom,ensign  Size: 4834  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:45
Rappleye, Neal. “Creating a List of ‘Standard Works’ on Book of Mormon Authenticity.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 5, 2014.
ID = [4824]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2014-01-05  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 40332  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:59
Petersen, LaMar. The Creation of the Book of Mormon: A Historical Inquiry. Salt Lake City: Freethinker Press, 1998.
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Keywords: Origins; Seer stones; Book of Mormon, witnesses; Book of Mormon, textual development; Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s translation of
ID = [81505]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Ostler, Shannon. “Creative Items Focus on Book of Mormon.” Church News 59 (11 March 1989): 6.
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A homemaking fair focused on the Book of Mormon. Creative ideas included a children’s quiet book and a quilt depicting stories from the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79339]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1989-03-11  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Smith, T. C. The Credentials of the Book of Mormon and Mormonism. Denver: Rev. T. C. Smith, 1912.
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A polemical tract against the Book of Mormon. The author asserts that the idea that written records were ever kept on metal plates is improbable and absurd. He follows Riley’s explanation that Joseph may have been an epileptic. Most of the work is devoted to a criticism of the translation process. He further asserts that “the testimony of the spirit is never proof of material facts. To accept it as such is to abdicate reason, and enthrone credulity and superstition”

ID = [78463]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1912-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:13
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Credibility of the Book of Mormon Translators.” In Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, ed. Noel B. Reynolds, 213–37. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1982.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Mormon
RSC Topics > L — P > Prayer
RSC Topics > T — Z > Testimony
ID = [37108]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1982-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 53857  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:14
Sjodahl, Janne M. “Credibility of the Witnesses.” Improvement Era 26, no. 11 (1923): 969-979.
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The author of this article defends the reliability of both the Three and the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon. The witnesses consistently adhered to their testimony and each had an unassailable reputation.

Keywords: Cowdery, Oliver, Eight Witnesses, Harris, Martin, Three Witnesses, Whitmer, David, Witnesses
ID = [76811]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1923-09-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:10:59
Welch, John W. “Criteria for Identifying and Evaluating the Presence of Chiasmus.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4, no. 2 (1995): 1-14.
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This article defines fifteen criteria one can use to measure the strength or weakness of a proposed chiastic pattern in a given text. The need for rigor in such studies depends primarily on how the results of the proposed structural analyses will be used. Ultimately, analysts may not know with certainty whether an author created inverted parallel structures intentionally or not; but by examining a text from various angles, one may assess the likelihood that an author consciously employed chiasmus to achieve specific literary purposes.

Keywords: Chiasmus; Chiastic; Parallelism; Structure
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [2911]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms,welch  Size: 31987  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:13
Tanner, Jerald, and Sandra Tanner. A Critical Look: A Study of the Overstreet “Confession” and the Cowdery “Defense”. Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm, 1967.
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An analysis of two purported denials by Oliver Cowdery of his testimony regarding Mormonism and the Book of Mormon. The writer concludes that the two documents are probably spurious forgeries.

ID = [77406]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1967-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Skousen, Royal. “Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon.” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6, no. 1 (1994): 121-144.
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Review of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology (1993), edited by Brent Lee Metcalfe.

Keywords: Criticism; Historicity; Methodology
ID = [167]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 56831  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:31
Nibley, Hugh W. “A Critical Opinion of the Pearl of Great Price.” July 26, 1967, Brigham Young University Devotional.
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Hugh Nibley discusses the military strategy and tactics of the wars in the Book of Mormon compared to other modern and ancient warfare.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
ID = [1179]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1967-07-26  Collections:  bom,byu-speeches,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:34
Jones, Wesley M. A Critical Study of Book of Mormon Sources. Detroit: Harlo Press, 1964.
ID = [77199]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1964-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:04
Skousen, Royal. “The Critical Text of the Book of Mormon.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994. Transcript of a lecture given at the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series.
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A critical edition of the Book of Mormon has two main objectives. The first is to determine the original text of the Book of Mormon to the extent that it can be determined. The second is to determine the history of the text, as it has changed over the many editions of that book that have been published. Royal Skousen describes the history of the early manuscripts and editions of the Book of Mormon in order to better understand this book of scripture.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Literature; Mormon Studies
ID = [8587]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-reports  Size: 213  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:44
Weldon, Roy E., and F. Edward Butterworth. Criticisms of the Book of Mormon Answered. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1973.
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A response to “honest objections and sincere criticisms” against the Book of Mormon, including its origins (i.e., the Spaulding manuscript), the problem of biblical passages quoted verbatim, seeming literary errors, anachronisms, and changes in the Book of Mormon.

ID = [77727]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1973-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Saints’ Herald. “Criticisms on the Book of Mormon.” Saints’ Herald 50 (1 July 1903): 594.
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Encourages people to be faithful to the teachings of the Book of Mormon. Many critics fail to read the book before expressing their opinions, and then their opinions vary widely.

ID = [79340]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1903-07-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Wunderli, Earl M. “Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (Fall, 2002): 161-197.
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During the past few decades, a number of LDS scholars have developed various “limited geography” models of where the events of the Book of Mormon occurred. These models contrast with the traditional western hemisphere model, which is still the most familiar to Book of Mormon readers. [From the text]

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon geography, Mesoamerica; Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon, historicity
ID = [81976]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:50
Gehly, Joshua. “The Cross of Christ and Golden Plates Using an Established Historical Method to Authenticate Ancient Artifacts.” Paper presented at the 2023 FAIR Defending the Book of Mormon Conference. September 22-23, 2023.
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The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is an undisputed event from history, which makes the cross of Calvary a real artifact from antiquity. What pattern of evidence unites both secular and believing scholars who assert the reality of a wooden cross without any physical, archaeological evidence? Researchers depend upon early source manuscripts to unlock the historical truths for what befell Jesus of Nazareth. The same approach yields compelling results for another undiscovered relic besides the cross: the golden plates procured by Joseph Smith, Jr. Cross-examining source evidence for the golden plates under the same historical method—a minimal facts approach to infer the best explanation of the facts—determines that Joseph Smith, Jr. did, in fact, obtain an ancient record and have it in his possession. A real cross does not guarantee a resurrection and a historian might not conclude the golden plates were translated by the gift and power of God, but this investigative approach points sincere seekers to a core truth. The golden plates are a genuine artifact—as real as the cross of Calvary—even if never seen by another human in the 20th or 21st centuries. The plates shine forth under the pressures of a strict historical method. This illuminates a new pathway for further investigation into the historicity of the restoration utilizing established resurrection research techniques.

ID = [81866]  Status = Type = talk,website article  Date = 2023-09-22  Collections:  bom,fair-conference  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/25/24 10:20:32
Friend. “Crossing the Sea.” Friend 19 (November 1989): 28-29.
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Cartoon depiction of Lehi’s family crossing the sea designed for children.

ID = [79341]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1989-11-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Mitton, George L. “The Crucifixion as a Mockery, Witness, and Warning of the Judgment.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 39-52.
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Abstract: In its action, setting, and arrangement, the crucifixion may be viewed as a stark mockery of the final judgment scene. This article provides a brief review of the relevant scriptures, considered together with some related apocryphal and other early Christian writings of interest in regard to the crucifixion. These sources point to the interpretation that the gospel writers saw in the crucifixion a striking symbolism that can provide a strong reminder, witness, and warning of the coming judgment. The Lord is seen in the crucifixion as at once representing His humility in submitting Himself to be judged and, conversely, His authority and power to be the judge of all. The crucifixion signifies the concept of a reciprocal or two-way judgment, as emphasized in the Book of Mormon, where mankind first judges the Lord, and later are to be judged accordingly by Him in return.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [3575]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 33832  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:59
Grey Owl and Little Pigeon. Cry of the Ancients. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1974.
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In this collection of articles Grey Owl, an Indian, tells that he holds sacred the message of hope given in the Book of Mormon to his people. It is their history, it may be read as you would read the wampum or listen to the traditions.

ID = [77728]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1974-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Volluz, Corbin T. “Cry Redemption: The Plan of Redemption as Taught in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 3, no. 1 (1994): 148-169.
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According to the Book of Mormon, men must obey the commandments of God in order to gain eternal life. And yet men are incapable of yielding full obedience to God because of the carnal nature they inherit from the fallen Adam and Eve. To overcome this carnal nature, God has provided a way, through the atonement of his Son, whereby men may be redeemed from the carnal state to a spiritual state. If men are to be redeemed, they must call upon the Lord in the spirit of true humility, faith, and repentance. If they do so, God will redeem them by the power of the Holy Ghost. A covenant of obedience is frequently associated with the redemption process.

Keywords: Atonement; Commandments; Covenant; Faith; Fall of Adam; Humility; Jesus Christ; Obedience; Plan of Redemption; Plan of Salvation; Redemption; Repentance
ID = [2863]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 46555  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:10
Swift, Hales. “Crying with One Voice in King Benjamin’s Address (Mosiah 4-5).” The Interpreter Foundation website. April 16, 2020.
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
ID = [6463]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-04-16  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website  Size: 3654  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:09:34
Duerden, Noel. “Cuban Couple Writes of Ancient Cultures.” Church News 36 (15 January 1966): 11.
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Research proves that the “ancient Indians of the Americas possessed a rich theatrical culture,” an evidence that supports the Book of Mormon.

ID = [79342]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1966-01-15  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Dibble, Charles E. “The Cuicuilco Excavation.” Improvement Era 45, no. 3 (1942): 135.
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A series of brief comments in which the author presents archaeological findings, architectural notes, and myths and legends that deal indirectly with the Book of Mormon. Dibble discusses the wheel, ancient irrigation methods, metals, Mexican and Mayan codices, Quetzalcoatl, ancient buildings, and numerous other related items. The tenth part covers archaeological work in Cuicuilco.

Keywords: Ancient America – Mesoamerica, Archaeology, Mexico, Native Americans – Aztec, Native Americans – Toltec
ID = [77038]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1942-03-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:03
Cheesman, Paul R. “A Cultural Analysis of the Nephite-Lamanite-Mulekite Civilizations from The Book of Mormon.” PhD diss., Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1967.
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A literary analysis of the Book of Mormon civilizations that deconstructs certain cultural aspects that are presented within the pages of the Book of Mormon.

Keywords: Mormon thought, Book of Mormon geography; Book of Mormon, literary context; Book of Mormon; Native Americans, Mormon views of
ID = [81548]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1967-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:26
Wright, Mark Alan, and Brant A. Gardner. “The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 25-55.
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Abstract: Nephite apostates turned away from true worship in consistent and predictable ways throughout the Book of Mormon. Their beliefs and practices may have been the result of influence from the larger socioreligious context in which the Nephites lived. A Mesoamerican setting provides a plausible cultural background that explains why Nephite apostasy took the particular form it did and may help us gain a deeper understanding of some specific references that Nephite prophets used when combating that apostasy. We propose that apostate Nephite religion resulted from the syncretization of certain beliefs and practices from normative Nephite religion with those attested in ancient Mesoamerica. We suggest that orthodox Nephite expectations of the “heavenly king” were supplanted by the more present and tangible “divine king.”.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [4390]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 61638  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:28
Elliott, Dorice Williams. “Cultural Dogmas Vs. Universal Truths.” Sunstone 12 (May 1988): 31-32.
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A refiection on the relationship between cultural dogmas and timeless truths, and their relevance to a study of the Book of Mormon, with emphasis on the problems of racism and sexism. The curse of the Lamanites is brought out as a case in point.

ID = [79343]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1988-05-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Pagan, Eduardo. “Cultural Hegemony.” Sunstone 15 (December 1991): 9-11.
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Questions the Book of Mormon concept concerning the curse of the black skin for those who had erred in ignorance. The Book of Mormon is the history of a white culture, taken to people with a dark skin with a promise of white skin. “The cultural hegemony of white America permeates Mormonism”

ID = [79344]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1991-12-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Smith, Daymon M. A Cultural History of the Book of Mormon. Daymon M. Smith, 2013.
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This first volume of a cultural history of the Book of Mormon focuses on the earliest years of the text. In a new reading of Mormon history informed by the author’s expertise in anthropology and text analysis, the role of Restorationists in locating the Book of Mormon inside the cultural world of the Bible comes to the forefront. The notion of “metatext” is developed in order to explain how texts about the Book of Mormon informed the earliest readings of it, rendering it “scripture” in the genre familiar to Christians, and also shaped it to fit the tradition of Restoration widespread on the American frontier. As a group of Campbellites in late 1830 saw in the book their hoped-for restoration of the power of miracles, the Book of Mormon became the engine of a movement: the power had been restored. In this movement, Alexander Campbell’s Ohio group suffered a schism, and his remaining followers called the break off sect “Mormonites” in derision. This cultural history of the Book of Mormon presents a dramatically new way to understand that text and how it has been read and misread from the 1830s onward, as Restorationists took up the text--not for what it said--as a sign of miracles being restored to the true New Testament Church. This first volume is the sort of book you’ll either love or hate.

Keywords: Book of Mormon, controversies; Campbell, Alexander
ID = [81515]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:24
Cheesman, Paul R. “Cultural Parallels between the Old World and the New World.” In The Book of Mormon: The Keystone Scripture, ed. Paul R. Cheesman, 206–17. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.
ID = [36981]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-bom,rsc-books  Size: 22572  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:06
De Hoyos, Genevieve. “Cultural Pluralism or Assimilation? A Dilemma of Our Times.” In By Study and Also By Faith, Volume 2, edited by John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks, 335-352. Vol. 2. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies/Deseret Book, 1990.
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This second of two volumes of essays honoring Hugh Nibley includes scholarly papers based on what the authors have learned from Nibley. Nearly every major subject that Dr. Nibley has encompassed in his vast learning and scholarly production is represented here by at least one article. Topics include the sacrament covenant in Third Nephi, the Lamanite view of Book of Mormon history, external evidences of the Book of Mormon, proper names in the Book of Mormon, the brass plates version of Genesis, the composition of Lehi’s family, ancient burials of metal documents in stone boxes, repentance as rethinking, Mormon history’s encounter with secular modernity, and Judaism in the 20th century.
An essay written with the purpose to shd some light on problems related to ethnic and racial relations, via a few different channels.

Keywords: Assimilation; Immigration; United States History
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Politics, Social Issues
ID = [2362]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1990-01-02  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-books,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:41
Sorenson, John L. “A Cultural Summary of Israelite Palestine at the End of the Middle Iron Age (7th Century b.c.).” Book of Mormon Working Paper, No. 1, September 1963.
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Photocopy. Lists features that hold potential value for an anthropological and archaeological comparison of Palestine with the New World.

ID = [78872]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 1963-09-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:15
Wright, Mark Alan. “The Cultural Tapestry of Mesoamerica.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 4-21.
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Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica was populated by scores of distinctive cultural groups. Such groups are identified archaeologically by their stylistically unique material cultures, from small, portable ceramic objects to large-scale monumental architecture, as well as through distinctive artistic, religious, and linguistic evidence. Significant interaction took place between these distinctive peoples and cultures, and some major metropolitan areas were home to different ethnic groups. This paper offers a brief glimpse at some of the cultures that inhabited the major geographical regions of Mesoamerica throughout its threethousand-year history and explores the cultural diversity that existed within and between regions.

Keywords: Ancient America; Archaeology; Architecture; Culture; Mesoamerica
ID = [3294]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 61885  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:36
Welch, John W., and Robert D. Hunt. “Culturegram: Jerusalem 600 B.C.” In Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely, 1—40. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39685]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,old-test,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:37
Smith, Henry. “Cumorah.” Improvement Era 32, no. 6 (1929): 468-470.
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The author describes the Hill Cumorah, saying that it is adorned by trees and a large sign containing Book of Mormon passages.

Keywords: Hill Cumorah, NY
ID = [77030]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1929-04-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:03
Palmer, David A. “Cumorah.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
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Keywords: Book of Mormon Geography, Cumorah
ID = [74389]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,eom  Size: 3462  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:08:49
Hedges, Andrew H. “Cumorah and the Limited Mesoamerican Theory.” Religious Educator Vol. 10 no. 2 (2009).
ID = [38301]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2009-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 67890  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:27
Bean, Willard W. “Cumorah Land.” Deseret News Church Section (23 February 1935): 6.
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Describes the Hill Cumorah and country surrounding it. Also gives evidence of ancient American Indians.

ID = [79345]  Status = Type = newspaper article  Date = 1935-02-23  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Merrill, Joseph F. “Cumorah Monument Significant.” Improvement Era 38, no. 10 (1935): 619.
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This article remarks on the new monument on the Hill Cumorah, which commemorates the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, a most significant book.

Keywords: Angel Moroni, Hill Cumorah, NY, Restoration
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
ID = [76949]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1935-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:11:07
Shook, Charles A. Cumorah Revisited or ‘The Book of Mormon’ and the Claims of the Mormons Re-examined from the Viewpoint of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Cincinnati: Standard, 1910.
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An attempted refutation of the Book of Mormon’s historical claims. Author accepts the Spaulding theory for its origin; he asserts that there is no archaeological evidence that supports the Book of Mormon’s claims; he contests the claim that American Indians were once white, that they were of Hebrew descent, or that they had a knowledge of the Egyptian language. Numerous “anachronisms” are noted.

ID = [77729]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1910-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Johnson, Sherrie Mills. “Cumorah Treasure.” Friend 23 (February 1993): 48, ibc.
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A summary for children of the history of the Book of Mormon from the first vision to translation and publication. Illustrated.

ID = [79346]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1993-02-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
McGavin, E. Cecil, and Willard W. Bean. “Cumorah-Land, An Ancient Battlefield.” Improvement Era 44, no. 9 (September 1941): 526, 571- 72.
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Discusses the authors’ point of view concerning the identity of the Hill Cumorah as an ancient battlefield. Authors conclude that the scholars “need not search for (Cumorah) in Mexico or Yucatan”

ID = [81275]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1941-09-01  Collections:  bom,improvement-era  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:11
Ivins, Anthony W. “Cumorah: A Mute Witness of Epochal Events.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 90, no. 19 (3 May 1928): 289-95.
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In connection with the 1928 Church acquisition of the Hill Cumorah, Ivins speaks concerning the records that make up the Book of Mormon, including the brass plates, consisting of the Pentateuch, Isaiah, and Jeremiah; the large and small plates of Nephi; and the twenty-four gold plates of the Jaredites.

ID = [81404]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1928-05-03  Collections:  bom,millennial-star  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:18
Ferguson, Thomas Stuart. Cumorah—Where?. Independence, MO: Zion’s, 1947.
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Ferguson looks at the conflicting theories that the original Hill Cumorah was in New York or in Mesoamerica and concludes that it was in Mesoamerica.

ID = [77731]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1947-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Packer, Cameron J. “Cumorah’s Cave.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13 no. 1 (2004).
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The significance of the Hill Cumorah in the restoration of the gospel goes beyond its identification as the ancient repository of the metal plates known as the Book of Mormon. In the second half of the 19th century, a teaching about a cave in the hill began surfacing in the writings of several leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In their view, the hill was not only the place where Joseph Smith received the plates but also their final repository, along with other sacred treasures, after the translation was finished. This article cites ten different accounts, all secondhand, that refer to this cave and what was found there. The author includes a comparison of the accounts that discusses additional records in the cave, God’s dominion over Earth’s treasure, miraculous dealings of God, and the significance of the presence of the sword of Laban.

Keywords: Cave; Cumorah; Early Church History; Gold Plates; Hill Cumorah; Joseph; Jr.; Miracle; Smith; Sword of Laban; Treasure
ID = [3139]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-jbms  Size: 39302  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:11:27
McGavin, E. Cecil. Cumorah’s ‘Gold Bible.’. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1940.
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A fictional account of a mission president instructing his missionaries on how to use the Book of Mormon effectively as a proselytizing tool. This imaginary exchange takes place in the Palmyra-Manchester area in 1939.

ID = [77730]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1940-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:08
Badlam, A. “A Cunning Device Detected.” Times and Seasons Vol. 1, no. 3: January 1840: 47.
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Contains an interview with Solomon Spaulding’s widow, Matilda Davidson, and daughter, Mrs. McKinistry, concerning the Spaulding manuscript’s connection with the Book of Mormon. The wife and daughter saw little resemblance between the two documents, thinking there may have been a similarity in some names.

ID = [80877]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1840-01-01  Collections:  bom,times-seasons  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:14:51
Hales, Brian C. “Curiously Unique: Joseph Smith as Author of the Book of Mormon.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 151-190.
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Abstract: The advent of the computer and the internet allows Joseph Smith as the “author” of the Book of Mormon to be compared to other authors and their books in ways essentially impossible even a couple of decades ago. Six criteria can demonstrate the presence of similarity or distinctiveness among writers and their literary creations: author education and experience, the book’s size and complexity, and the composition process and timeline. By comparing these characteristics, this essay investigates potentially unique characteristics of Joseph Smith and the creation of the Book of Mormon.

ID = [3594]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal  Size: 64738  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:12:00
Midgley, Louis C. “The Current Battle over the Book of Mormon: ‘Is Modernity Itself Somehow Canonical?’” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6, no. 1 (1994): 200-254.
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Review of “The Word of God Is Enough: The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture” (1993), by Anthony A. Hutchison.

Keywords: Canon; Criticism; Historicity
Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Reviews and Forewords of Others’ Works > Avraham Gileadi
ID = [170]  Status = Type = review  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,farms-review  Size: 142737  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:08:31
Benbow, Dennis Everett. “Current Book of Mormon Evidence.” Saints’ Herald 72 (16 December 1925): 1335-38.
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Some archaeologists find similarities between ancient American and Egyptian ruins. Both the horse and the camel are believed to have originated in America, fossils of huge elephant-like animals have been found, and white Indians have been located in remote areas of South America.

ID = [79347]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1925-12-16  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:18
Young, W. Ernest. A Curriculum of Readings in the Field of Religious Education from Spanish American Sources Designed for Seminary Students. M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1935.
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States that many archaeological, historical, and traditional evidences of ancient inhabitants of Mexico and Central America are linked with the Book of Mormon. Many items mentioned in the book have been found such as fine linen, elephants, horses, and temples.

ID = [77407]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1935-01-01  Collections:  bom  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:58:05
Welch, John W. “Cursing a Litigant with Speechlessness.” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by Welch, John W., and Melvin J. Thorne, 154-156. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999.
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Keywords: Alma the Younger; Curses; Korihor; Laws; Legal
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
ID = [75676]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  bom,farms-books,welch  Size: 4003  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:09:56
Bowen, Matthew L. “Cut Off from the Face and Presence: Alma’s Use of Hebraistic Idioms to Teach the Fall.” Religious Educator Vol. 21 no. 2 (2020).
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
ID = [38335]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 2020-01-02  Collections:  bom,rel-educ  Size: 32561  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:35:29
Steck, Jamie Ann. “Cutting a Covenant: Making Covenants and Oaths in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon.” Studia Antiqua : The Journal of the Student Society for Ancient Studies 4, no. 1 (April, 2005): 1-14.
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The Lord has always made covenants with his people to bless them and help them return to him. This restoration to the presence of God is the end goal of the Plan of Happiness that Christ made possible through his Atonement. A covenant is “an agreement enacted between two parties in which one or both make promises under oath to perform or refrain from certain actions stipulated in advance” (Mendenhall and Herion 1: 1179). In the Hebrew Old Testament, the word bryt (“covenant”) is almost always associated with the verb krt (“to cut”). These together mean “to make a covenant,” but the literal meaning of the idiom krt bryt suggests that some aspect of cutting is involved in making a covenant. This creates an interesting paradox, since a covenant is a binding agreement between two groups but the phrase has an underlying etymology of division. Though bryt in time came to refer to many kinds of oaths and covenants, certain covenants under the law of Moses reveal this connection with cutting as the rituals accompanying the covenants are performed: animal sacrifice, circumcision, and the rending of cloth. These ordinances and their corresponding covenants made after Christ’s condescension allow the believer to better see, in both the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon, how covenants relate to the ultimate goal of returning to the Father.

Keywords: Covenants; Oaths; Old Testament; Book of Mormon
ID = [82053]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-04-01  Collections:  bom,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:15:55

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