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Blasphemers and Believers
Personal Reactions to the Book of Mormon
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
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 various believers and nonbelievers, including William E. McLellan, Mark Twain, B. H. Roberts, and Minerva Teichert.ContentsWilliam...
by Welch, John W.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This Bookshelf Single is an excerpt from the book Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 18201844, Second Edition.John W. Welch discusses the miraculous three-month translation of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith. He seeks to answer some of the following questions through analysis...
Mormons: An Open Book
What you really want to know
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
At first glance, as I thumbed thru the pages of "Mormons: An Open Book", I was struck by the layout of the book. Instead of taking a straight prose style, the book is set up much like a modern textbook. Packed with nuggets of information and an appealing visual presentation, what would have...
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
The 44th Annual BYU Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
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...
A Reason for Faith
Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
A Reason for Faith was written to do just as the title implies, provide reasons for faith by offering faithful answers to sincere questions. Before the Internet, historical and doctrinal questions not addressed in LDS Church curriculum were mostly found in the scholarly articles of academic journals....
The Bringing Forth of Modern Scriptures
Articles from BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This ebook contains a variety of articles from BYU Studies on aspects of modern scripture. It begins with a series of four articles by the Joseph Smith Papers editors who were involved in publishing the Book of Commandments and Revelations, which contains the earliest version of several of Joseph...
Girls Who Choose God
Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shining light on strong women from the Book of Mormon, this groundbreaking book shares well-known stories alongside others that may be less familiar. Come to better know and love Sariah, the heroic daughters from the land Zeniff, Nephi's wife, the maidservant spy, and other women from the Book of...
by BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In this issue of BYU Studies, you'll find a variety of articles, essays, poetry, and reviews related to Latter-day Saint history and culture.First, Edward L. Kimball presents a marvelous account of the 1978 revelation granting the priesthood to worthy men of all races. Beginning with a brief...
Science and the Book of Mormon
Articles from BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
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 how the El Niño weather pattern may have made Lehi’s voyage to the Americas possible, geological insights into the destruction...
by Hugh Nibley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Readers of An Approach to the Book of Mormon, the sixth volume in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, will find erudite and sometimes unexpected insights into this book of scripture - as evidenced by this excerpt from the preface to the 1964 edition. (p.xii-xiii)When in 1946 this writer composed...
Book of Mormon Archaeology and Anthropology
Articles from BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
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 archaeological and anthropological aspects of the Book of Mormon, such as the use of the wheel in ancient America, Hagoth and the...
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
Articles from BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
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...
Studies of the Books of Moses and Abraham
Articles from BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This compilation of fascinating articles on the books of Moses and Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Antonio Lebolo, the mummies, and the papyri; other topics related to the book...
BYU STUDIES Volume 50 • 2011 • Issues 1-4
4-in-1 eBook Bundle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Volume 50, number 1, begins with Joseph Spencer’s philosophical look at what it means to be Mormon: what is the nature of the faith that binds a very diverse group of members? Next is an article about the importance of music in Christian worship, written by a Catholic scholar in England. Next, astronomer...