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Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel
The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The Mormons had just arrived in Utah after their 1,300-mile exodus across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains. Food was scarce, the climate shocking in its extremes, and local Indian bands uneasy. Despite the challenges, Brigham Young and his counselors in the First Presidency sent church...
Tales from the World Tour
The 18951897 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Andrew Jenson's global tour was instrumental in broadening the scope of Latter-day Saint history. Leaving behind his wives and children for two years, he pursued the goal of gathering records and writing the history of the Church with a rare passion. Through his own hard work and the hand of Providence,...
Mormons and Muslims
Spiritual Foundations and Modern Manifestations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1983
In bringing together papers from a symposium held at Brigham Young University in October 1981, this book on Mormons and Muslims presents some of the finest and ablest exponents and interpreters of the Muslim faith. As well as relationships between that faith and Christianity generally, the book offers...
by Janiece Johnson, Jennifer Reeder
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Latter-day Saint women actively participated in the Restoration, and their voices and testimonies need to be included in Church history. The Witness of Women helps accomplish that. Teachers, parents, gospel scholars, and every member seeking a connection with the women of our past will relish discovering...
Thirteenth Year in Zion
Mormons Confront the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Growing up in Cortez, Colorado, I was only forty miles from the Utah border. What societal differences those forty miles represent. I was quite oblivious to the history of the settlement and the societies that developed in the two corners of Utah and Colorado until I became a student at Brigham Young...
by D.J. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
This book is a historico-literary analysis of the Book of Mormon, focusing on the book of First Nephi. Nephi's small plates are a time capsule from the sixth century B.C., containing a "loser's eye view" of religion that strongly contrasts with the ideology of the Jerusalem establishment...
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...
Summer Fellows' Papers 2003
Latter-day Saint Women in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
As part of the Smith Institute’s women’s initiative, eight advanced students were invited to BYU in summer 2003 to research women’s history in the twentieth century. The eight papers in this volume are the fruits of their labors. The papers show the actions and reactions of faithful women affected...
by BYU Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In BYU Studies volume 47, number 1, Jeff Walker examines preemption rights and land surveying practices in Missouri. After surveying was finished, these preemption rights were an impetus for Missouri land speculators to force Mormons from the state. Blair G. Van Dyke and LaMar C. Berrett look at eleven...
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...
Chiasmus and Book of Mormon Textual Studies
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 Hebraisms and chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, as well as articles discussing emendation of the text, naturalistic assumptions,...
Social and Political Studies about 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 that explore comparisons between the American Revolution and Book of Mormon governments, Nephi’s justification of his ascent to...
Book of Mormon as Literature
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 that look at literary aspects of the Book of Mormon, including a lyric reading of Nephi’s psalm, the exodus pattern and Moses typology...
Doctrines in 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 that look at doctrines in the Book of Mormon, including resurrection, the allegory of the olive tree, and the appearance of Jesus...