Works

Book of Mormon historicity

Brant A. Gardner, Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History (Greg Kofford Books, 2015).
Anthony A. Hutchinson, “The Word of God Is Enough: The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture,” New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology (1993): 1–19.
Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten and Craig S. Criddle, “Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 23, no. 4 (2008): 465–491.
Brent Lee Metcalfe, “The Priority of Mosiah: A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis,” New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology (1993): 395–444.
Blake T. Ostler, “The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20, no. 1 (1987): 66–123.
Robert M. Price, “Prophecy and Palimpsest,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (2002): 67–82.
Noel B. Reynolds, “The Authorship of the Book of Mormon,” Brigham Young University Forum (1997).
Brigham Henry Roberts, New Witnesses for God (The Deseret News, 1909).
John L. Sorenson, “Reading Mormon’s Codex,” FAIR Conference (2012).
John L. Sorenson, Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient American Book (Deseret Book and Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2013).
Dan Vogel, Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon: Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1986).
Earl M. Wunderli, “Critique of a Limited Geography for Book of Mormon Events,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (2002): 161–197.
Earl M. Wunderli, An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself (Signature Books, 2013).

Book of Mormon production

Stanford Carmack, “A Look at Some “Nonstandard” Book of Mormon Grammar,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 11 (2014): 209–262.
William L. Davis, Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
Scott C. Dunn, “Spirit Writing: Another Look at the Book of Mormon,” Sunstone 10, no. 6 (1985): 16–26.
Scott C. Dunn, “Automaticity and the Dictation of the Book of Mormon,” American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon (2002): 17–46.
Brant A. Gardner, The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon (Greg Kofford Books, 2011).
Grant Hardy, “The Book of Mormon Translation Process,” BYU Studies Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2021).
Michael Hubbard MacKay and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Deseret Book, 2015).
Michael Hubbard MacKay and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, “Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process,” The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder (2015): 61–79.
Brent Lee Metcalfe, “Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26, no. 3 (1993).
Jonathan E. Neville, “A Man That Can Translate and Infinite Goodness: A Response to Recent Reviews,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 171–184.
Brigham Henry Roberts, New Witnesses for God (The Deseret News, 1909).
Royal Skousen, “How Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 7, no. 1 (1998): 22–31.
Ann Taves, Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths (Princeton University Press, 2016).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Book of Mormon Translation,” Gospel Topics Essays (2013).
Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (Signature Books, 2004).
John W. Welch, “Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon: “Days [and Hours] Never to Be Forgotten”,” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 4 (2018).

DNA and the Book of Mormon

John M. Butler, “Addressing Questions Surrounding the Book of Mormon and DNA Research,” FARMS Review 18, no. 1 (2006): 101-108.
Dean H. Leavitt, Jonathon C. Marshall and Keith A. Crandall, “The Search for the Seed of Lehi: How Defining Alternative Models Helps in the Interpretation of Genetic Data,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 4 (2003): 133-150.
David A. McClellan, “Detecting Lehi’s Genetic Signature: Possible, Probable, or Not?,” FARMS Review 15, no. 2 (2003): 35-90.
D. Jeffrey Meldrum and Trent D. Stephens, “Who Are the Children of Lehi?,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 38-51, 116.
D. Jeffrey Meldrum and Trent D. Stephens, Who Are the Children of Lehi? DNA and the Book of Mormon (Greg Kofford Books, 2007).
Thomas W. Murphy, “Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36, no. 4 (2003): 109-131.
Thomas W. Murphy and Simon G. Southerton, “Genetic Research a ‘Galileo Event’ for Mormons,” Anthropology News 44, no. 2 (2003): 20.
Ugo A. Perego and Jayne E. Ekins, “Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 38 (2020): 355-390.
Simon G. Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Signature Books, 2004).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Book of Mormon and DNA Studies,” Gospel Topics Essays (2014).
Michael F. Whiting, “DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 24-35, 115-116.

Book of Mormon details and setting

Warren P. Aston, “A History of NaHoM,” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2012): 78–98.
Michael D. Coe, “Mormons and Archaeology: An Outside View,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8, no. 2 (1973): 40–48.
Clyde D. Ford, “The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 47, no. 1 (2014): 1–23.
Brant A. Gardner, “Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon,” A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History (2016): 33–44.
Kent P. Jackson, “Isaiah in the Book of Mormon,” A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History (2016): 69–78.
Wade E. Miller and Matthew Roper, “Animals in the Book of Mormon: Challenges and Perspectives,” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2017): 133–175.
John L. Sorenson, “Instant Expertise on Book of Mormon Archaeology,” BYU Studies 16, no. 3 (1976): 429–432.
John L. Sorenson, “Digging into the Book of Mormon: Our Changing Understanding of Ancient America and Its Scripture, Part 2,” Ensign 14, no. 10 (1984): 12–23.
Colby Townsend, ““The Robe of Righteousness”: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 55, no. 3 (2022): 75–106.
Dan Vogel, Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon: Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1986).
John W. Welch, “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 10, no. 1 (1969): 69–84.
David P. Wright, “Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: Or Joseph Smith in Isaiah,” American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon (2002): 157–234.
Earl M. Wunderli, “Critique of Alma 36 as an Extended Chiasm,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38, no. 4 (2005): 97–112.

Book of Abraham

Edward H. Ashment, “Joseph Smith’s Identification of "Abraham" in Papyrus JS 1, the "Breathing Permit of Hôr",” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 4 (2000): 121–126.
Klaus Baer, “The Breathing Permit of Hôr: A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3, no. 3 (1968): 109–134.
Andrew W. Cook and Christopher C. Smith, “The Original Length of the Scroll of Hôr,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 43, no. 4 (2010): 1–42.
John Gee, An Introduction to the Book of Abraham (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Deseret Book, 2017).
Brian M. Hauglid, ““Translating an Alphabet to the Book of Abraham”: Joseph Smith’s Study of the Egyptian Language and His Translation of the Book of Abraham,” Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity (2020): 363–389.
Anthony A. Hutchinson, “A Mormon Midrash? LDS Creation Narratives Reconsidered,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 21, no. 4 (1988): 11–72.
Kerry Muhlestein, “Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: Some Questions and Answers,” Religious Educator 11, no. 1 (2010): 91–108.
Hugh Nibley, “The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers,” BYU Studies 11, no. 4 (1971): 350–399.
Robert K. Ritner, “The "Breathing Permit of Hôr" Thirty-four Years Later,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 4 (2000): 97–119.
Robert K. Ritner, ““The Breathing Permit of Hôr” Among the Joseph Smith Papyri,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 62, no. 3 (2003): 161–180.
Robert K. Ritner, The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition (Signature Books, 2013).
Robin Scott Jensen and Brian M. Hauglid, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts (Church Historian’s Press, 2018).
Karl C. Sandberg, “Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith as Translator,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 22, no. 4 (1989): 17–38.
Stephen O. Smoot, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein and John S. Thompson, “The “Kirtland Egyptian Papers” and the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2022): 45–49.
Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Signature Books, 2021).

First Vision accounts

James B. Allen, “The Significance of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” in Mormon Thought,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 1, no. 3 (1966): 29–46.
Richard Lloyd Anderson, “Circumstantial Confirmation of the First Vision through Reminiscences,” BYU Studies 9, no. 3 (1969): 373–404.
Milton V. Backman Jr., “Awakenings in the Burned-Over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the First Vision,” BYU Studies 9, no. 3 (1969): 301–320.
Milton V. Backman Jr., “Verification of the 1838 Account of the First Vision,” The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God (1989): 197–212.
Richard Lyman Bushman, “The First Vision Story Revived,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 4, no. 1 (1969): 82–93.
Dean C. Jessee, “The Early Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision,” BYU Studies 9, no. 3 (1969): 275–294.
Kathleen Flake, “The First Vision as a Prehistory of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” BYU Studies Quarterly 59, no. 2 (2020): 59–72.
Steven C. Harper, “Remembering the First Vision,” A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History (2016): 7–20.
Steven C. Harper, First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Christopher C. Jones, “We Latter-day Saints are Methodists: The Influence of Methodism on Early Mormon Religiosity,” BYU ScholarsArchive; thesis abstract and repository record (2009).
Christopher C. Jones, “The Power and Form of Godliness: Methodist Conversion Narratives and Joseph Smith’s First Vision,” Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 2 (2011): 88–114.
H. Michael Marquardt, “The First Vision Stories: Their History and Development,” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 41, no. 1 (2021): 54–62.
Ann Taves, “First Vision Controversies: Implications for Accounts of Mormon Origins,” BYU Studies Quarterly 59, no. 2 (2020): 73–92.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “First Vision Accounts,” Gospel Topics Essays (2016).
Dan Vogel, “The Earliest Mormon Concept of God,” Line upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine (1989): 17–33.
Wesley P. Walters, “New Light on Mormon Origins from the Palmyra Revival,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 4, no. 1 (1969): 60–81.

The Book of Mormon witnesses

Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Deseret Book, 1981).
Richard Lloyd Anderson, “Attempts to Redefine the Experience of the Eight Witnesses,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 18–31, 125–127.
Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Richard Lyman Bushman, “What Are We to Make of the Gold Plates?,” BYU Studies Quarterly 64, no. 1 (2025).
Steven C. Harper, “The Eleven Witnesses,” The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder (2015): 117–132.
Larry E. Morris, “Empirical Witnesses of the Gold Plates,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 52, no. 2 (2019): 59–84.
Grant H. Palmer, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Signature Books, 2002).
Daniel C. Peterson, “Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 43 (2021): vii–xxxii.
Matthew Roper, “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.
Ann Taves, “History and the Claims of Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates,” Numen 61, no. 2–3 (2014): 182–207.
Dan Vogel, “The Validity of the Witnesses' Testimonies,” American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon (2002): 79–121.
Dan Vogel, “Book of Mormon Witnesses Revisited,” (2012).

Joseph Smith and plural marriage

Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet (Vintage Books, 1995).
Samuel M. Brown, “Believing Adoption,” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2013): 45–65.
Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005).
Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1997).
J. Spencer Fluhman, “‘A Subject That Can Bear Investigation’: Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith’s Youngest Plural Wife,” No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues (2011): 105–119.
Lawrence Foster, Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community (University of Illinois Press, 1984).
Brian C. Hales, “Joseph Smith’s Personal Polygamy,” Journal of Mormon History 38, no. 2 (2012): 163–228.
Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith’s Polygamy, Volume 1: History (Greg Kofford Books, 2013).
Brian C. Hales and Laura Harris Hales, Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding (Greg Kofford Books, 2015).
George D. Smith, “Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 34, no. 1–2 (2001): 123–158.
Merina Smith, Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853 (Utah State University Press, 2013).
Jonathan A. Stapley, “Sealings,” The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology (2018): 34–56.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo,” Gospel Topics Essays (2014).

Priesthood and temple restriction

Newell G. Bringhurst, “Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 12, no. 2 (1979).
Newell G. Bringhurst, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism (Greenwood Press, 1981).
Joanna Brooks, “The Possessive Investment in Rightness: White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51, no. 3 (2018): 45–81.
Joanna Brooks, Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Lester E. Bush Jr., “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8, no. 1 (1973): 11–68.
Ronald K. Esplin, “Brigham Young and Priesthood Denial to the Blacks: An Alternate View,” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (1979): 394–402.
Matthew L. Harris, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst, The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History (University of Illinois Press, 2015).
Edward L. Kimball, “Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood,” BYU Studies 47, no. 2 (2008): 4–78.
Armand L. Mauss, “The Fading of the Pharaoh’s Curse: The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban Against Blacks,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 14, no. 3 (1981).
Armand L. Mauss, All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage (University of Illinois Press, 2003).
Robert L. Millet, “What Is Our Doctrine?,” Religious Educator 4, no. 3 (2003): 15–33.
Max Perry Mueller, Race and the Making of the Mormon People (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Oxford University Press, 2015).
W. Paul Reeve, “Race, the Priesthood, and Temples,” A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History (2016): 159–178.
Darron T. Smith, “Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51, no. 3 (2018): 29–44.
Russell W. Stevenson, For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830–2013 (Greg Kofford Books, 2014).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Race and the Priesthood,” Gospel Topics Essays (2013).

Temple and Freemasonry

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 15 (2015): 159–237.
John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844 (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Cheryl L. Bruno, Joe Steve Swick III and Nicholas S. Literski, Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration (Greg Kofford Books, 2022).
David John Buerger, “The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20, no. 4 (1987): 33–76.
Steven C. Harper, “Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saint Temple Endowment Ceremony,” A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History (2016): 143–157.
Michael W. Homer, ““Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry”: The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27, no. 3 (1994): 1–113.
Michael W. Homer, Joseph’s Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism (University of Utah Press, 2014).
Hugh Nibley, “What Is a Temple?,” The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives (1984): 19–37.
Hugh Nibley, Temple and Cosmos: Beyond this Ignorant Present (Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1992).