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*Avraham Gileadi, "Isaiah-Key to the Book of Mormon" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=72&chapid=872 (Link)]
 
*Avraham Gileadi, "Isaiah-Key to the Book of Mormon" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=72&chapid=872 (Link)]
 
*Sidney B. Sperry, "The Isaiah Quotation: 2 Nephi 12-24" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=4&num=1&id=90 (Link)]
 
*Sidney B. Sperry, "The Isaiah Quotation: 2 Nephi 12-24" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=4&num=1&id=90 (Link)]
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*David E. Bokovoy, "On Christ and Covenants: An LDS Reading of Isaiah's Prophetic Call" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/studies/?vol=3&id=71 (Link)]
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*Paul Y. Hoskisson, "A Latter-day Saint Reading of Isaiah: The Example of Isaiah 6" [http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/sperry-symposium-classics-old-testament/latter-day-saint-reading-isaiah-example-isaiah-6 (Link)]
 
*FAIR entry on "deutero-Isaiah" [http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Deutero-Isaiah (Link)]
 
*FAIR entry on "deutero-Isaiah" [http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon/Anachronisms/Biblical/Deutero-Isaiah (Link)]
 
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Revision as of 12:12, 11 November 2012

The Three and Eight Witnesses and Other Witnesses

  • Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" (Link)
  • FAIR collection of articles on Book of Mormon Witnesses (Link)
  • Keith W. Perkins, "David Whitmer" (Link)
  • Susan Easton Black, and Larry C. Porter, ""Rest Assured, Martin Harris Will Be Here in Time"" (Link)
  • Larry E. Morris, "The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Golden Plates" (Link)

Translation of the Book of Mormon

  • John W. Welch and Tim Rathbone, "How Long Did It Take to Translate the Book of Mormon?" (Link)
  • John W. Welch and Tim Rathbone, "Translation of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith" (Link)
  • Stephen D. Ricks, "Translation of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Revelation and the Urim and Thummim" (Link)
  • Stephen D. Ricks, "Joseph Smith's Translation of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "Urim and Thummim" (Link)
  • Hugh Nibley, "Classics from the Past: Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation" (Link)
  • Richard L. Bushman and Dean C. Jessee, "Joseph Smith" (Link)
  • Richard E. Turley Jr., "Seer Stones" (Link)

Textual History of the English Translation of the Book of Mormon

  • M. Gerald Bradford and Alison V.P. Coutts, "Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon (Collection)" (Link)
  • Royal Skousen,"Fragments of Original Manuscript Discovered," (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Book of Mormon Textual Changes" (Link)

Language

  • FAIR entry on "Hebrew and Native American languages" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "Reformed Egyptian (Link)
  • Brian Stubbs, "Looking Over vs. Overlooking: Native American Languages: Let's Void the Void" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "It Is OK Not to Have Every Answer: The Book of Mormon Onomastic Ending -(i)hah" (Link)

Title Page

  • "Wherefore, it is an abridgment of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites"
    • John L. Sorenson, "Mormon's Sources" (Link)
    • David B. Honey, "The Secular as Sacred: The Historiography of the Title Page" (Link)
  • "And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men"
    • Royal Skousen, "The Original Book of Mormon Transcript" (Link)
  • "Author and Proprietor" (1830 Title Page)
    • John W. Welch, and Miriam Smith, "Joseph Smith: "Author and Proprietor"" (Link)
  • Authorship and Writing of the Title Page
    • Clyde J. Williams. "More Light on Who Wrote the Title Page" (Link)
    • Sidney B. Sperry, "Moroni the Lonely: The Story of the Writing of the Title Page to the Book of Mormon" (Link)

Introduction

  • "written on gold plates"
    • John Gee, "Egyptian Writing on Gold 'Plates'" (Link, URL for article doesn't work, click on PDF file to view article)
    • John A. Tvedtnes, "Etruscan Gold Book from 600 B.C. Discovered" (Link)
    • "More Gold Plates" (Link)
    • "Another Gold Book Found"(Link)(Link)
    • FAIR entry on "gold plates" (Link)
  • "they are among the ancestors of the American Indians."
    • Daniel C. Peterson (Editor), "The Book of Mormon and DNA Research" (Link)
    • Michael F. Whiting, "The Book of Mormon at the Bar of DNA 'Evidence'" (Link)
    • FAIR Entry: "Relationship to Amerindians" (Link)

Structure and Composition of the Book of Mormon, Literary Elements

  • Whole Book of Mormon
    • Donald W. Perry, "Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text Reformatted" (Link)
    • Grant R. Hardy and Robert E. Parsons, "Plates and Records in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • Daniel B. McKinlay, and Scot Hanson, "A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features" (Link)
  • Chiasmus and Other Particular Devices
    • Robert F. Smith, "Assessing the Broad Impact of Jack Welch's Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • John W. Welch, "The Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon: Forty Years Later" (Link)
    • Hugh W. Pinnock, "Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in Antiquity (Collection)" (Link)
  • Literary Qualities
    • Richard Dilworth Rust, "Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon (Collection)" (Link)
    • Donald W. Perry, "The Book of Mormon: Integrity and Internal Consistency" (Link)
    • Marilyn Arnold, "Unlocking the Sacred Text" (Link)
    • Richard Dilworth Rust, "Questions Answered: My Study and Teaching of American Literature and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • John W. Welch, "Good and True" (Link)
    • Robert A. Rees, "Irony in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Biblical Style and Language
    • FAIR Entry: "Bible Plagiarism" (Link)
    • Royal Skousen, "Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • Brian D. Stubbs, "Language" (Link)
    • John A. Tvedtnes, "October 1986 Ensign: I have a question (on Book of Mormon language)" (Link)
  • Grammar and Hebraisms
    • Brian D. Stubbs, "A Lengthier Treatment of Length" (Link)
    • Brian D. Stubbs, "A Short Addition to Length: Some Relative Frequencies of Circumstantial Structures" (Link)
    • Larry G. Childs, "Present Participle Adjuncts in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • John A. Tvedtnes, "Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey" (Link)

Historical Studies

  • John W. Welch, "Was There a Library in Harmony, Pennsylvania?" (Link)
  • Daniel C. Peterson and Donald L. Enders, "Can the 1834 Affidavits Attacking the Smith Family be Trusted?" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "What the Original Book of Mormon Manuscript Is Not" (Link)
  • Warren P. Aston, "The Rings That Bound the Gold Plates Together" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, Gordon C. Thomasson, and Robert F. Smith, "What Did Charles Anthon Really Say?" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "View of the Hebrews: "An Unparallel"" (Link)
  • Richard C. Roberts, "View of the Hebrews" (Link)
  • Richard E. Bennett, ""A Nation Now Extinct," American Indian Origin Theories as of 1820: Samuel L. Mitchill, Martin Harris, and the New York Theory" (Link)
  • Donald Q. Cannon, "In the Press: Early Newspaper Reports on the Initial Publication of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Early Publications on the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Stephen Kent Ehat, "'Securing' the Prophet's Copyright in the Book of Mormon: Historical and Legal Context for the So-Called Canadian Copyright Revelation," (Extended Online Version)

Miscellaneous Items

  • Stephen D. Ricks, "Studies of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Roberts Affirms Book of Mormon Antiquity" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "No, Sir, That's Not History!" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson and John W. Welch, "The Sobering Lesson of the Grolier Codex" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Hugh Nibley and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Marilyn Arnold, ""Words, words, words": Hugh Nibley on the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "Ancient Europeans in America?" (Link)
  • Donald W. Parry, Jeanette W. Miller, and Sandra A. Thorne, "A Comprehensive Annotated Book of Mormon Bibliography" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, and Michael D. Rhodes, "Ancient Semitic in Egyptian Pyramids?" (Link)

Topical Overview Articles

  • John L. Sorenson, "Peoples of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Camille Fronk, "Prophecy in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Religious Teachings and Practices in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Stephen D. Ricks, "The Book of Mormon and the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Link)
  • Victor L. Ludlow, "Covenant Teachings of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Louis Midgley, "To Remember and Keep: On the Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "Religious Groups and Movements among the Nephites, 200–1 B.C." (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Charting the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Mark Alan Wright and Brant A. Gardner, "The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Book of Mormon Geography" (Link)

Population Demographics in the Book of Mormon

  • James E. Smith, “How Many Nephites? The Book of Mormon at the Bar of Demography” (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "I have heard that the sizes of the Nephite and Lamanite populations indicated in the Book of Mormon do not make sense. What do we know about their numbers?" (Link)

The Book of Mormon and Historicity

  • Elder Dallin H. Oaks, "Worthy of Another Look: The Historicity of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Robert L. Millet, "The Book of Mormon, Historicity, & Faith" (Link)
  • Hugh Nibley, "The Book of Mormon: A Minimal Statement" (Link)
  • Terryl L. Givens, "Joseph Smith's American Bible: Radicalizing the Familiar" (Link)

The Book of Mormon in Other Languages and Cultures

  • Hugh G. Stocks, "Translations of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Shinji Takagi, "Proclaiming the Way in Japanese: The 1909 Translation of the Book of Mormon" (Link)

Authorship Studies, Stylometry

  • History and Context
    • FAIR Entry: "Authorship Theories" (Link)
    • Matthew Roper, "Myth, Memory, and "Manuscript Found"" (Link)
    • Matthew Roper, "The Mythical "Manuscript Found"" (Link)
    • Robert A. Rees, "The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing" (Link)
    • Louis Midgley, "Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?: The Critics and Their Theories" (Link)
  • Stylometry
    • G. Bruce Schaalje, Matthew Roper, and Paul Fields, "Stylometric Analyses of the Book of Mormon: A Short History" (Link)
    • Bruce A VanOrden, "Sidney Rigdon" (Link)
    • Matthew Roper, Paul Fields, and Atul Nepal, "Wordprint Analysis and Joseph Smith's Role as Editor of the Times and Seasons" (Link)
    • John L. Hilton, "On Verifying Wordprint Studies: Book of Mormon Authorship" (Link)
    • John L. Hilton, "Wordprints and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • Wayne A. Larsen, and Alvin C. Rencher, "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints" (Link)
    • G. Bruce Schaalje, John L. Hilton, and John B. Archer, "Comparative Power of Three Author-Attribution Techniques for Differentiating Authors" (Link)
    • G. Bruce Schaalje, Matthew Roper, and Paul Fields, "Stylometric Analyses of the Book of Mormon: A Short History" (Link)
    • G. Bruce Schaalje, Matthew Roper, and Paul Fields, "Examining a Misapplication of Nearest Shrunken Centroid Classification to Investigate Book of Mormon Authorship" (Link)
    • Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten, Craig S. Criddle, "Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification" ***Not freely available*** (Link)
    • G. Bruce Schaalje, Paul J. Fields, Matthew Roper, Gregory L. Snow, "Extended nearest shrunken centroid classification: A new method for open-set authorship attribution of texts of varying sizes" ***Not freely available*** (Link)

Isaiah in the Book of Mormon

  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Isaiah Variants in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Donald W. Parry, and Stephen D. Ricks, "Worthy of Another Look: The Great Isaiah Scroll and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Marc Schindler, "Deutero-Isaiah in the Book of Mormon?" (Link)
  • Kevin L. Barney, "Isaiah Interwoven" (Link)
  • Kevin Christensen, "Open Questions and Suggestions regarding Isaiah in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • S. Kent Brown, "What Is Isaiah Doing in First Nephi? Or, How Did Lehi's Family Fare so Far from Home?" (Link)
  • Avraham Gileadi, "Isaiah-Key to the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Sidney B. Sperry, "The Isaiah Quotation: 2 Nephi 12-24" (Link)
  • David E. Bokovoy, "On Christ and Covenants: An LDS Reading of Isaiah's Prophetic Call" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "A Latter-day Saint Reading of Isaiah: The Example of Isaiah 6" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "deutero-Isaiah" (Link)

The Temple in the Book of Mormon

  • Don Bradley, "Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages" (Link)
  • John Gee, "The Keeper of the Gate" (Link)

Book of Mormon time keeping

  • John L. Sorenson, "Comments on Nephite Chronology" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "The Nephite Calendar in Mosiah, Alma, and Helaman" (Link)
  • Randall P. Spackman, "The Jewish/Nephite Lunar Calendar" (Link)
  • Kent Brown and David Seely, “Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure” (Link)
  • FAIR article on "the week in the Americas" (Link)
  • John P. Pratt, "Book of Mormon Chronology" (Link)

Main Themes

  • Warfare
    • William J. Hamblin and Stephen D. Ricks, "Warfare in the Book of Mormon" (article collection) (Link)
    • William J. Hamblin, "Warfare in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
    • FAIR entry on "Warfare" (Link)
    • Ray C. Hillam, "Secret Combination" (Link)
    • Ryan W. Davis, "For the Peace of the People: War and Democracy in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

Women and the Book of Mormon

  • Camille Williams, "Women in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Camille Fronk, "Desert Epiphany: Sariah and the Women in 1 Nephi" (Link)
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