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by Josi S. Kilpack
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
What begins as a holiday trip for amateur sleuth and cooking aficionado Sadie Hoffmiller and her daughter, Breanna, turns into a bizarre mystery when they discover a dead body in the sitting room of an English manor. Breanna's boyfriend, Liam, is heir to both the family title and the family estate of...
Rediscovering the Sites of the Restoration
The 1888 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson, Edward Stevenson, and Joseph S. Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
On September 6, 1888, three Church history missionaries—Andrew Jenson, Edward Stevenson, and Joseph S. Black—left on a factfinding mission to the Church’s historic sites in Missouri, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Iowa. They spent a majority of their time visiting the sacred spaces of the Restoration....
by Lisa Mangum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Move over Edward; Dante is bound to eclipse you! — Emily Watts, bestselling author
In a time when copycats abound, Mangum has created a unique story with interesting characters and an intriguing plot. And because “Hourglass” centers on relationships, fantastical elements feel believable...
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The Autobiography of Andrew Jenson, first published in 1938 by the Deseret News Press in Salt Lake City, Utah, tells the personal story of a Danish Mormon convert who eventually served as Assistant Church Historian of the LDS Church over forty years. The author mined his voluminous personal journals...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...