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“The Robe of Righteousness”: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon

Listen to the Out Loud podcast about this article here. The book of Isaiah has enjoyed an enduring presence within Christian thought since the earliest period of Christian history. Isaiah has famously been called “the…

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“The Robe of Righteousness”: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon

Listen to the Out Loud podcast about this article here. The book of Isaiah has enjoyed an enduring presence within Christian thought since the earliest period of Christian history. Isaiah has famously been called “the…

Review: Heavy Lifting on Broken Ground Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon

Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon cannot quite be described as “groundbreaking.” It covers ground, the editors acknowledge right up front, that has been broken many times before. In their introductory essay, Elizabeth Fenton…

Review: On Truth-Telling and Positionalities P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds., Essays on American Indian and Mormon History

I struggle with beginnings. I always just want to get to it. However, allow me to take a bit of time to introduce myself before I tell the story of my experience with the collection…

Review: Brigham Young Wanted Every Thing  From the Indians Will Bagley, ed., The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877

Will Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is…

Roundtable: Efforts to Change the Culture of Columbus Day

As I approach the subject of the legacy of Columbus, I want to start by saying that we, as Indigenous people, seek to bring light and truth to the world. As a child, I learned…

Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One

The Maidservant’s Witness Mette Harrison. The Book of Abish.

Plain and Precious Things Lost: The Small Plates of Nephi

Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates

The best way, as discussed by the author, to determine what really happened is by studying other individual’s first-hand accounts about the Gold Plates.

THE GOLD PLATES AND ANCIENT METAL EPIGRAPHY: APPENDIX

The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy

Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to exist from that time…

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A Mosaic for a Religious Counterculture: The Bible in the Book of Mormon

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However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the gospel of shalom.

A Maturing View of the Book of Mormon: An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins by Grant H. Palmer

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“The Robe of Righteousness”: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon

Listen to the Out Loud podcast about this article here. The book of Isaiah has enjoyed an enduring presence within Christian thought since the earliest period of Christian history. Isaiah has famously been called “the…

Review: Heavy Lifting on Broken Ground Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon

Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon cannot quite be described as “groundbreaking.” It covers ground, the editors acknowledge right up front, that has been broken many times before. In their introductory essay, Elizabeth Fenton…

Review: On Truth-Telling and Positionalities P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink, eds., Essays on American Indian and Mormon History

I struggle with beginnings. I always just want to get to it. However, allow me to take a bit of time to introduce myself before I tell the story of my experience with the collection…

Review: Brigham Young Wanted Every Thing  From the Indians Will Bagley, ed., The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877

Will Bagley is a historian who has written and edited more than a dozen books on Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) history and the American West. His best known work is…

Roundtable: Efforts to Change the Culture of Columbus Day

As I approach the subject of the legacy of Columbus, I want to start by saying that we, as Indigenous people, seek to bring light and truth to the world. As a child, I learned…

Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One

The Maidservant’s Witness Mette Harrison. The Book of Abish.

Plain and Precious Things Lost: The Small Plates of Nephi

Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates

The best way, as discussed by the author, to determine what really happened is by studying other individual’s first-hand accounts about the Gold Plates.

THE GOLD PLATES AND ANCIENT METAL EPIGRAPHY: APPENDIX

The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy

Ryan Thomas highlights the different metal writing cultures from around the same time as the Book of Mormon periods to see if it is historically likely for the Gold Plates to exist from that time…

Automatic Writing and the Book of Mormon An Update

“Behold, Other Scriptures I Would that Ye Should Write”: Malachi in the Book of Mormon

Scenes from the Book of Mormon: “A Day a Night and a Day”: A Three-act Play by Doug Stewart

Problems and Answers: Answers to Book of Mormon Questions by Sidney E. Sperry

Prospects for the Study of the Book of Mormon as a Work of American Literature

Ancient America and the Book of Mormon Revisited

Book of Mormon Archaeology: The Myths and the Alternatives

Beowulf and Nephi: A Literary View of the Book of Mormon

A Photographic Trip Through Ancient America: Early America and The Book of Mormon: A Photographic Essay of Ancient America

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Passive Aggression and the Believer

The Liberal Institute: A Case Study in National Assimilation

The Enigma of Solomon Spalding

The Enigma of Solomon Spalding

The Spalding Theory Then and Now

The “Brass Plates” and Biblical Scholarship

Textual Variants in Book of Mormon Manuscripts

Mormon Scholasticism: The World of the Book of Mormon by Paul R. Chessman

The Book of Mormon as Faction: The Ammonite by Blaine C. Thomsen

Joseph Smith and Thomas Paine?: Mormon Answer to Skepticism: Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon by Robert N. Hullinger

Investigating the Investigation: Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses by Richard Lloyd Anderson

Responsible Apologetics: Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins by Noel B. Reynolds, ed.

A Selected Bibliography of Recent Books on Mormons and Mormonism

“Is There Any Way to Escape These Difficulties?”: The Book of Mormon Studies of B.H. Roberts

Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology

Sign or Scripture: Approaches to the Book of Mormon

How does the Book of Mormon present the basic doctrines of the gospel? What role should the Book of Mormon play in our religious and intellectual lives?

B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon: Studies of the Book of Mormon

The Third Nephite

The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source

Disciplined Geography: An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon by John L. Sorensen

The “New Mormon History” Reassessed in Light of Recent Book on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins

Drowning in Excess: Book of Mormon Critical Text: A Tool for Scholarly Reference by F.A.R.M.S.

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Apologetic and Critical Assumptions About Book of Mormon Historicity

B.H. Roberts’s Studies of the Book of Mormon

Easy-to-Read: A Consumer’s Report: The Easy-to-Read Book of Mormon: Based on the Work Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Critical” Book of Mormon Scholarship: New Approaches to the Book of Mormon

The Structure of the Book of Mormon: A Theory of Evolutionary Development

Hypertextual Book of Mormon Study

A Mosaic for a Religious Counterculture: The Bible in the Book of Mormon

Laban’s Ghost: On Writing and Transgression

Reflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History

Joseph Smith’s Interpretation of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon

Evidence Without Reconciliation: The Creation of the Book of Mormon: A Historical Inquiry by Lamar Petersen

The Book of Mormon and Religious Epistemology

Book of Mormon Stories: Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives

Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events

Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance

Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon

Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon

Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option

However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the gospel of shalom.

A Maturing View of the Book of Mormon: An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins by Grant H. Palmer

Lehi on the Great Issues: Book of Mormon Theology in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective

A Marvelous Work and a Possession: Book of Mormon Historicity as Postcolonialism

Re-imagining Nephi: The Golden Plates: Volumes 1-3 by Michael D. Allred and Laura Allred

Who was Second Nephi?

A Gentile Recommends the Book of Mormon

Terryl Givens and the Shape of Mormon Studies: A Review of Terryl Givens, The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction

Review: Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide

The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon

Elder Price Superstar

Review: Richard E. Turley Jr. and William W. Slaughter How We Got the Book of Mormon

Association of Mormon Letters Conference: “For All Things Must Fail”: A Post-Structural Approach to the Book of Mormon

Mormon Scholars Foundation Summer Fellowship Conference: The Gold Plates in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

Mormon Scholars Foundation Summer Fellowship Conference: Lost “Wagonloads of Plates”: The Disappearance and Deliteralization of Sealed Records

Review: Paul C. Gutjahr. The Book of Mormon: A Biography

Review: Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher, and Richard L. Bushman, eds. War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives

Hospitality in the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments

Book Review: Shifting Attitudes: Nauvoo Polygamy Merina Smith. Revelation, Resistance and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853

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From the Pulpit: Learning to Read with the Book of Mormon

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