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The Prophet Puzzle : Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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"The essays in this volume take up Smith's legacy of enigma. Using tools from disciplines as diverse as history, psychology, literary studies, sociology, and theology, the selections here represent thirty years of writing about Joseph Smith. Many of the contributions contain arguments that have become familiar to those working in Mormon studies; others point to new directions, such as exercises in textual criticism and gender studies. The collection's purpose is to make a variety of interpretations of Joseph Smith, both previously published and new, accessible to a larger audience. They serve as reminders that the interpretive process, like Smith's own retelling of his life story, is always ongoing, always incomplete, always historically bound." [Abstract from editor's introduction]
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A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century
A Matter of Many Wives: Joseph Smith's Courting in Secret Nauvoo
An Accidental Church Historian : On the Trail of a Book of Joseph
A New Witness to the World
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
A Personal Odyssey Revisited : My Continuing Encounter with Mormon History
Beneath, Below, Under: Joseph Smith's Queen Kahtoumun, Summer 1835
"Bringing Forth" the Book of Mormon: Translation as the Reconfiguration of Bodies in Space-Time
Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
Joseph Smith Jr. : Reappraisals After Two Centuries
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Prophets in America ca. 1830 : Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith
Scripture and Gender
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing
The Book of Mormon : A Reader's Edition
The Inner Joseph Smith
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Psychology and Prophetic Charisma : New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership
The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma : New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership
The Religious Heritage of the British Northwest and the Rise of Mormonism
“The Robe of Righteousness”: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
Visions in a Seer Stone : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Vox Joseph Vox Dei : Regarding Some of the Moral and Ethical Aspects of Joseph Smtih's Practice of Plural Marriage
Was Joseph Smith a Money Digger?
Why the Prophet is a Puzzle: The Challenges of Using Psychological Perspectives to Understand the Character and Motivation of Joseph Smith, Jr.
"Without a Cause" and "Ships of Tarshish" : A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Further Inquiry Into the Historicity of the Book of Mormon
A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
A Mormon Midrash? : LDS Creation Narratives Reconsidered
An Address to All Believers in Christ. By a Witness to the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon
An Address : To Believers in the Book of Mormon
An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, and Hyrum Smith, His Brother
A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price
A New Witness for Christ in America : Evidence of Divine Power in the "Coming Forth" of the Book of Mormon
A[n] Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, And of the Late Discovery of Ancient American Records
Anti-Universalist Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon
Anxious Saints : The Early Mormons, Social Reform, and Status Anxiety
'A Plainer Translation' : Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible : A History and Commentary
A Reply to Dr. Bushman
A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham
A Trajectory of Plurality : An Overview of Joseph Smith's Thirty-three Plural Wives
A Translation and Commentary of the Joseph Smith Hypocephalus
Awakenings in the Burned-Over District : New Light on the Historical Setting of the First Vision
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier
Brigham Young : The American Moses
Brodie Revisited : A Reappraisal
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
By the Gift and Power of God
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Circumstantial Confirmation of the First Vision Through Reminiscences
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
Desert Saints : The Mormon Frontier in Utah
Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith
Early Days of Mormonism, Palmyra, Kirtland, and Nauvoo
Early Mormon Documents : Volume I
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Emergence of a Fundamental : The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon Religious Thought
Essentials in Church History
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Factors in the Destruction of the Mormon Press in Missouri, 1833
Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
From Occult to Cult with Joseph Smith : A Newly Found Document Confirming the Mormon Prophet's Early Money Digging
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
George Laub's Nauvoo Journal
Gifts of the Spirit : Women's Share
Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon : A Preliminary Survey
History of Mormonism : Or a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion, With Sketches of the Characters of Its Propagators
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, and Morris' Reserve
History of the Prophet Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Smith
How Authentic Are Mormon Historic Sites in Vermont and New York?
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Is There No Help For the Widow's Son?
'It Seems Like Heaven Began on Earth' : Joseph Smith and the Constitution of the Kingdom of God
James Adams : Early Springfield Mormon and Freemason
James Gordon Bennett's 1831 Report on 'The Mormonites'
Joseph Knight's Recollection of Early Mormon History
Joseph Smith Among the Egyptians
Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay on the Perils of Historical Analogy
Joseph Smith and His Mormon Empire
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah : The Occult Connection
Joseph Smith and Money Digging
Joseph Smith and the 1826 Trial : New Evidence and New Difficulties
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith and the Restoration : A History of the Church to 1846
Joseph Smith and the Sources of Love
Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew
Joseph Smith Begins His Work
Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator : An Inquiry
Joseph Smith: Martyr, Prophet of God
Joseph Smith Prophet-Statesman
Joseph Smith's 1826 Trial : The Legal Setting
Joseph Smith : Seeker After Truth, Prophet of God
Joseph Smith's First Vision : The First Vision in its Historical Context
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Joseph Smith's Means and Methods of Translating the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith's New England Heritage
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible
Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reappraised
Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined
Joseph Smith's Presidential Platform
Joseph Smith’s Response to Skepticism
Joseph Smith's Revision of the Bible : Fraudulent, Pathologic, or Prophetic?
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Joseph Smith : 'The Gift of Seeing'
Joseph Smith, the Man and the Seer
Joseph Smith, the Prophet, His Family and His Friends
Joseph Smith : The Verdict of Depth Psychology
Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites
Life of Joseph the Prophet
Martin Harris : Mormonism's Early Convert
Masterful Discourses and Writings of Orson Pratt
Mormon Answer to Skepticism : Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism and American Culture : Some Tentative Hypotheses
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism : Shadow or Reality
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormon Origins in New York : An Introductory Analysis
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Portraits or The Truth About the Mormon Leaders from 1830 to 1886
Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood since 1843
Murder of an American Prophet : Events and Prejudices Surrounding the Killing of Joseph and Hyrum Smith; Carthage, Illinois, June 27, 1844. Materials for Analysis
Naturalistic Assumptions and the Book of Mormon
Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46 : A Preliminary Demographic Report
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
New Light on an Old Hypothesis : The Ohio Origins of the Revelation on Eternal Marriage
New Light on Mormon Origins From the Palmyra Revival
New Perspectives on the Mormon Past
No, Ma'am, That's Not History
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
On Being a Mormon Historian (and its Aftermath)
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism
Peepstone Joe and the Peck Manuscript
Power from on High : The Development of Mormon Priesthood
Precedents for Mormon Women from Scriptures
Priesthood and Latter-day Saint Women : Eight Contemporary Definitions
Professor Seixas, The Hebrew Bible, and the Book of Abraham
Psychological Tests for the Authorship of the Book of Mormon
Put On Your Strength, O Daughters of Zion': Claiming Priesthood and Knowing the Mother
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Quintessential Mormonism : Literal-mindedness as a Way of Life
Religion and Sexuality : The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Revelation in Mormonism : Its Character and Changing Forms
Reverend George Lane--Good 'Gifts,' Much 'Grace,' and Marked 'Usefulness'
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Salamander : The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders
Sarah M. Pratt : The Shaping of an Apostate
Secular or Sectarian History? : A Critique of No Man Knows My History
Seniority in the Twelve : The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt
Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities
'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry' : The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Strangers in Paradox : Explorations in Mormon Theology
'Strength in Our Union' : The Making of Mormon Sisterhood
Studies in Scripture
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Anthon Transcript : People, Primary Sources, and Problems
The Book of Breathings (Fragment 1; The 'Sensen' Text, with Restorations from Louvre Papyrus 3284)
The Book of Mormon--A Literal Translation?
The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source
The Breathing Permit of Hor : A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The Church in New York and Pennsylvania
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Colesville Branch and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Dogberry Papers and the Book of Mormon
The Early Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
The Early Republic's Supernatural Economy : Treasure Seeking in the American Northeast, 1780-1830
The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham : A Reappraisal
The First Vision Story Revived
'The Fulness of the Priesthood' : The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
The Gospel Beyond Time : Thoughts on the Relation of Faith and Historical Knowledge
The Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The History of the Saints: Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Joseph Smith Translation and Ancient Texts of the Bible
The Joseph Smith Translation : The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things
The Kingdom of Matthias
The King Follett Discourse : A Newly Amalgamated Text
The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership : A Contemporary Chronology
The Life of Heber C. Kimball
The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
The Locations of Joseph Smith's Early Treasure Quests
The Mature Joseph Smith and Treasure Searching
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri : An Egyptian Endowment
The Method of Translation of the Book of Mormon
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Murders : A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death
The Mormons
The Mormons and the American Frontier
The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844
The Myth Makers
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The Original Book of Mormon Manuscript
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1: Autobiographical and Historical Writings
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 2: Journal, 1832-1842
The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Priority of Mosiah : A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis
The Prophet Joseph : Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith
The Prophet of Palmyra
The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith
The Restoration Movement : Essays in Mormon History
The Restored Church
The Rise of Mormonism in the Burned-over District : Another View
The Saga of the Book of Abraham
The Shaping of the Mormon Mind in New England and New York
The Significance of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” in Mormon Thought
The Significance of Joseph Smith's 'First Vision' In Mormon Thought
The Smiths and Their Dreams and Visions
The Social Sources of Mormonism
The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified
The Spalding Theory Then and Now
The Story of the Book of Abraham : Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Story of the Mormons : From the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901
The Structure of the Book of Mormon : A Theory of Evolutionary Development
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion
The Translation of the Book of Mormon
The True Origin of The Book of Mormon
The Word of God : Essays on Mormon Scripture
The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Writing of Joseph Smith's History
They Knew the Prophet
Tolstoy and Mormonism
Toward 'Psychologically Informed' Mormon History and Biography
Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Where Were the Moroni Visits?
Who wrote the Book of Mormon?
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women, Family, and Utopia : Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society