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Topically Arranged Bibliography:
Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses

Revised: September 17, 2020
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Basic Resources

Overviews and Student Manuals

Detailed Commentary

Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

Teachings and Doctrines

Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

Perspectives on Science and Scripture

Study Resources for the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Genesis

Joseph Smith Translation (JST)

Latter-day Saint Canon

Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible

Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

Translation

History

Historicity and Ancient Threads — General

Chapters of the Book of Moses

Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

Moses 2 — Creation

Moses 3 — Garden of Eden

Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

Moses 8 — Noah

Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Other Scripture

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ronan J. Head. “The investiture panel at Mari and rituals of divine kingship in the ancient Near East.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 4 (2012): 1–42. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=sba.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The tree of knowledge as the veil of the sanctuary.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, edited by David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Matthew J. Grey. The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (26 October, 2013), 49–65. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2013. http://www.templethemes.net/publications/4%20Bradshaw.pdf.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. Temple Themes in the Book of Moses. 2014 update ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Publishing, 2014. https://archive.org/details/150904TempleThemesInTheBookOfMoses2014UpdatedEditionSReading.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The LDS book of Enoch as the culminating story of a temple text.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 39–73. https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/lds-story-enoch-culminating-episode-temple-text.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 24 (2017): 123–316. Reprint, In Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, eds. Sacred Time, Sacred Space, and Sacred Meaning. Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 5 November 2016. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Vol. 4. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2020, pp. 43–237. http://www.templethemes.net/publications/Bradshaw%20and%20Bowen-By%20the%20Blood-from%20TMZ4%20(2016).pdf.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 4: A missing link in Samuel Brown’s expansive and otherwise well-crafted account of the Joseph Smith Translation and the introduction of temple ordinances” Interpreter Blog, in press.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Truth and Beauty in the Book of Moses.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 10 November 2018, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 5, in preparation. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books. www.templethemes.net.

Calabro, David. “Joseph Smith and the architecture of Genesis.” In The Temple: Ancient and Restored. Proceedings of the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 3. 165–181. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/37488023/Joseph_Smith_and_the_Architecture_of_Genesis.

Freedman, David Noel. The Nine Commandments. Des Moines, IA: Anchor Bible, 2000.

Freedman, David Noel. “The nine commandments.” Presented at the Proceedings of the 36th Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries, La Jolla, CA, June 24-27, 2001. http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/publications/proceedings/proceedings2001/freedmand.pdf.

Hafen, Bruce C. and Marie K. Hafen. “Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020. https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-book-of-moses-conference/papers/hafen.

Johnson, Mark J. “The lost prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 145–186. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/the-lost-prologue-reading-moses-chapter-one-as-an-ancient-text/.

Morales, L. Michael. The Tabernacle Pre-Figured: Cosmic Mountain Ideology in Genesis and Exodus. Biblical Tools and Studies 15, ed. B. Doyle, G. Van Belle, J. Verheyden and K. U. Leuven. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2012.

Nibley, Hugh W. 1978. “The early Christian prayer circle.” In Mormonism and Early Christianity, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 4, edited by Todd M. Compton and Stephen D. Ricks, 45–99. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1987.

Nibley, Hugh W. 1975. “Sacred vestments.” In Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 12, edited by Don E. Norton., 91–138. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1992.

Nickelsburg, George W. E. “The Temple According to 1 Enoch.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 7–24. https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/temple-according-1-enoch.

Parry, Donald W. “Garden of Eden: Prototype sanctuary.” In Temples of the Ancient World, edited by Donald W. Parry, 126–151. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1994. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=8&article=1075&context=mi&type=additional.

Parry, Donald W. “Ancient sacred vestments: Scriptural symbols and meanings.” In Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 22 September 2012, edited by William J. Hamblin and David Rolph Seely. Temple on Mount Zion Series 2, 215–235. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014. https://emp.byui.edu/satterfieldb/rel390r/Fur%20Further%20Study/Sacred%20Vestments/sacred%20vestments%20parry.pdf.

Parry, Jay A., and Donald W. Parry. “The temple in heaven: Its description and significance.” In Temples of the Ancient World, edited by Donald W. Parry, 515–532. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1994. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=20&article=1075&context=mi.

Welch, John W., and Jackson Abhau. “The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses’,” September 18–19, 2020. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020. https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-book-of-moses-conference/papers/welch/.

Welch, John W. The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple. London: Ashgate, 2018.

Welch, John W. “The Temple, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Gospel of Matthew.” In Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition, edited by Gary A. Anderson, 61–107. Logan, UT: Academy for Temple Studies, 2013. https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/temple-sermon-mount-and-gospel-matthew.

Wenham, Gordon J. 1986. “Sanctuary symbolism in the Garden of Eden story.” In I Studied Inscriptions Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11, Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, Volume 4, edited by Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumura, 399–404. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.

Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

Barker, Margaret. The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Truth and Beauty in the Book of Moses.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 10 November 2018, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 5, in preparation. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books. www.templethemes.net.

Brown, S. Kent. “Man and Son of Man: Issues of theology and Christology.” In The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, edited by H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 57–72. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1989. https://rsc.byu.edu/pearl-great-price-revelations-god/man-son-man.

Nickelsburg, George W. E. “Review of ‘The Older Testament, by Margaret Barker’.” Journal of Biblical Literature 109, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 335–337. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3267032.

Wayment, Thomas A. “Intertextuality and the purpose of Joseph Smith’s new translation of the Bible.” In Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen and Sharalyn Howcroft, 74–100. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

Bokovoy, David E. Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy. Contemporary Studies in Scripture. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2014.

Bowen, Matthew L. “‘By the word of my power’: The divine word in the Book of Moses.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses’ (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020. https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-book-of-moses-conference/papers/bowen/.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 1 — Article Preview: Did God or Enoch weep?” Interpreter Blog, August 27, 2020. https://interpreterfoundation.org/blog-book-of-moses-textual-criticism-article-preview-1-did-god-or-enoch-weep/.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 2 — Article Preview: Were the names ‘Mahijah’ and ‘Mahujah’ inspired by Adam Clarke’s Commentary?” Interpreter Blog, September 3, 2020, https://interpreterfoundation.org/blog-book-of-moses-textual-criticism-article-preview-2-were-the-names-mahijah-and-mahujah-inspired-by-adam-clarkes-commentary/.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 3: Was the Book of Moses simply an unplanned afterthought to Moses 1? A response to Thomas A. Wayment. ‘Intertextuality and the purpose of Joseph Smith’s new translation of the Bible.’” Interpreter Blog, September 10, 2020, https:/www.interpreterfoundation.org/blog-book-of-moses-textual-criticism-3was-the-book-of-moses-simply-an-unplanned-afterthought-to-moses-1.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 4: A missing link in Samuel Brown’s expansive and otherwise well-crafted account of the Joseph Smith Translation and the introduction of temple ordinances” Interpreter Blog, in preparation.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Ten Questions with Kurt Manwaring [about the Book of Moses],” 14 September 2020, in press.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The LDS book of Enoch as the culminating story of a temple text.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 39–73. https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/lds-story-enoch-culminating-episode-temple-text.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Truth and Beauty in the Book of Moses.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 10 November 2018, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 5, in preparation. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books. www.templethemes.net.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Textual criticism and the Book of Moses: A response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the sources,’ Part 1.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship (2020): in press. www.templethemes.net.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Matthew L. Bowen, and Ryan Dahle. “Where did the names ‘Mahaway’ and ‘Mahujah’ come from?: A response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the sources,’ Part 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship (2020): in press. www.templethemes.net.

Calabro, David. “Joseph Smith and the architecture of Genesis.” In The Temple: Ancient and Restored. Proceedings of the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 3. 165–181. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/37488023/Joseph_Smith_and_the_Architecture_of_Genesis.

Frederick, Nicholas J. The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.

Frederick, Nicholas J. 2018. Intertextuality in the Book of Mormon. Interview by Laura Harris Hales, Episode 92. In LDS Perspectives Podcast. https://ldsperspectives.com/2018/08/22/intertextuality-book-mormon/.

Gardner, Brant A. “Silk or sow’s ear? The apologetic use of the if>and construction.” Interpreter Blog, 13 October 2013. https://interpreterfoundation.org/blog-silk-or-sows-ear-the-apologetic-use-of-the-ifand-construction/.

Hunsaker, O. Glade. “Pearl of Great Price, Literature.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. 4 vols. 3:1072. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1992. https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Pearl_of_Great_Price.

Jackson, Kent P. “Behold I,” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 169–75. https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/behold-i.

Jackson, Kent P. “‘If And’: A Hebrew Construction in the Book of Moses,” in Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, edited by Andrew C. Skinner, D. Morgan Davis, and Carl Griffin, 205–210. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2012. https://www.librarything.com/author/jacksonkentp.

Johnson, Mark J. “The lost prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 145–186. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/the-lost-prologue-reading-moses-chapter-one-as-an-ancient-text/.

Parry, Donald W. Preserved in Translation: Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2020.

Tanner, John S. “The world and the word: History, literature, and scripture.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 217-235. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001. https://rsc.byu.edu/historicity-latter-day-saint-scriptures/world-word-history-literature-scripture.

Townsend, Colby (under the pseudonym of Hans Rosekat). “The King James Bible in the Book of Moses, Part 1.” Rational Faiths. April, 12, 2014. https://rationalfaiths.com/king-james-bible-book-moses/.

Townsend, Colby. “Appropriation and Adaptation of J Material in the Book of Mormon.” Thesis for Honors Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah, 2016. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=205723.

Townsend, Colby. “Returning to the sources: Integrating textual criticism in the study of early Mormon texts and history.” Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 10, no. 1 (2019): 55–85. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/imwjournal/vol10/iss1/6/.

Townsend, Colby. “Rewriting Eden with the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America.” Master of Arts Thesis. Utah State University, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7681/.

Wayment, Thomas A. “Intertextuality and the purpose of Joseph Smith’s new translation of the Bible.” In Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen and Sharalyn Howcroft, 74–100. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Welch, John W., and Donald W. Parry, eds. Proceedings of the Chiasmus Jubilee Conference at BYU, August 15–16, 2017, sponsored by Book of Mormon Central and BYU Studies. BYU Studies Quarterly 59 – Special Supplement, 2020. https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/volume-592-supplemental-chiasmus-2020.

Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

Baden, Joel S. The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Berman, Joshua. Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Barney, Kevin L. Review of David Bokovoy “Authoring the Old Testament.” By Common Consent, February 23, 2014. https://bycommonconsent.com/2014/02/23/authoring-the-old-testament/.

Bokovoy, David E. Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy. Contemporary Studies in Scripture. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2014.

Bokovoy, David E. “‘The book which thou shalt write’: The Book of Moses as prophetic midrash.” In The Expanded Canon: Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts, edited by Blaire G. Van Dyke, Brian D. Birch, and Boyd J. Petersen, 121–142. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2018.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Sorting out the sources in scripture.” Review of Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy, by David E. Bokovoy. Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 9 (2014): 215–272. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/sorting-out-the-sources-in-scripture/.

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Did Moses Write the Book of Genesis?” In Interpreter Foundation Old Testament KnoWhy JBOTL03B. January 11, 2018. https://interpreterfoundation.org/knowhy-otl03b-did-moses-write-the-book-of-genesis/.

Carr, David M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Cassuto, Umberto. The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch. Translated by Israel Abrahams. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1961.

Evans, Craig A., Joel N. Lohr, and David L. Petersen, eds. The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, Formation and interpretation of Old Testament Literature 152, ed. Christl M. Maier, Craig A. Evans and Peter W. Flint. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.

Lindsay, Jeffrey Dean. “‘Arise from the Dust’: Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon. Part 1: Tracks from the Book of Moses.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 179–232. https://cdn.interpreterfoundation.org/jnlpdf/lindsay-v22-2016-pp179-232-PDF.pdf.

Reynolds, Noel B. “The Brass Plates Version of Genesis.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Faith and Scholarship 34 (2019): 63–96. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/the-brass-plates-version-of-genesis/.

Reynolds, Noel B., and Jeff Lindsay. “‘Strong like unto Moses’: The case for ancient roots in the Book of Moses based on Book of Mormon usage of related content apparently from the Brass Plates.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses’ (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020. https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-book-of-moses-conference/papers/reynolds/.

Seely, David Rolph. “‘We believe the Bible to be the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly’: Latter-day Saints and historical biblical criticism.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 (2016): 64–86. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/3641/.

Shannon, Avram. “Mormons and Midrash: On the Composition of Expansive Interpretation in Genesis Rabbah and the Book of Moses.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2015): 15–34. https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/mormons-and-midrash-composition-expansive-interpretation-genesis-rabbah-and-book-moses.

Walton, John H. Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.

Welch, John W., and Jackson Abhau. “The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses’,” September 18–19, 2020. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020. https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-book-of-moses-conference/papers/welch/.

Wenham, Gordon J., ed. Genesis 1–15. Word Biblical Commentary 1: Nelson Reference and Electronic, 1987.

Selected Ancient Sources

General Collections and Key Texts

Apocalypse of Abraham — Primary Sources

Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources

Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

Enoch — Primary Sources

Noah

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