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Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
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Provo, UT and Salt Lake City
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BYU Press and Deseret Book
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Essays by various authors, including reproductions of original documents, on spiritual experiences of, or related to, Joseph Smith: Dean C. Jessee, "The Earliest Documented Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision"; James B. Allen and John W. Welch, "The Appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith in 1820"; John W. Welch, "The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"; Brian Q. Cannon and BYU Studies Staff, "Sevety Contemoraneous Priesthood Resotration Documents"; Alexander L. Baugh, "Parting the Veil: Joseph Smith's Seventy-six Documented Visionary Experiences"; Steven C. Harper, "The Restoration of Temple Keys and Powers"; Lynne Watkins Jorgensen, "The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Passes to Brother Brigham: One Hundred Twenty-one Testimonies of a Collective Spiritual Witness." An appendix publishes a list of other early Church historical documents originall published in BYU Studies.
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A Chronology of Joseph Smith
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
An Apologetically Important Nonapologetic Book
A New Pneumatology : Comparing Joseph Smith's Doctrine of the Spirit with His Contemporaries and the Bible
Angels in the Age of Railways
Archaic Pronouns and Verbs in the Book of Mormon : What Inconsistent Usage Tells Us about Translation Theories
Are Christians Mormon? Reassessing Joseph Smith's Theology in His Bicentennial
"A Uniformity So Complete" : Early Mormon Angelology
Automatic Writing and the Book of Mormon : An Update
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Catholic and Mormon : A Theological Conversation
Changing Critics' Criticisms of Book of Mormon Changes
Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon
Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch? : Recent Updates on a Persistent Question
Dissenters : Portraying the Church as Wrong So They Can be Right Without It
Editor's Introduction, Not So Easily Dismissed : Some Facts for acts for Which Counterexplanations of the Book of Mormon Will Need to Account
Eleven Witnesses Behold the Plates
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Encouraging Joseph Smith to Practice Plural Marriage : The Accounts of the Angel with a Drawn Sword
Evaluating Three Arguments Against Joseph Smith's First Vision
Event or Process? How “the Chamber of Old Father Whitmer” Helps Us Understand Priesthood Restoration
Even unto Bloodshed : An LDS Perspective on War
Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic's Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
First Vision : Memory and Mormon Origins
Foundations of the Restoration : Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes
Foundations of the Restoration : Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes : the 45th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Gender and Missionary Work
"Idle and Slothful Strange Stories" : Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record
I Know He Lives : How 13 Special Witnesses Came To Know Jesus Christ
In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses
In Harmony? Perceptions of Mormonism in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
Joseph Smith and His Visions
Joseph Smith as Book of Mormon Storyteller
Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings
Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World
Joseph Smith's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit Contrasted with Cartwright, Campbell, Hodge, and Finney
Joseph Smith’s Education and Intellect as Described in Documentary Sources
Joseph Smith's First Vision in Historical Context : How a Historical Narrative Became Theological
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Joseph Smith's Many Histories
Know Brother Joseph : New Perspectives on Joseph Smith's Life and Character
Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
Labor Diligently to Write : The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture
Mormon Folk Culture
Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology
Mormons, Musical Theatre and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre, and Belonging in America
"None That Doeth Good": Early Evidence of the First Vision in JST Psalm 14
No Weapon Shall Prosper : New Light on Sensitive Issues
Oliver Cowdery : Scribe, Elder, Witness : Essays from BYU Studies and FARMS
Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion
Precept upon Precept: Joseph Smith and the Restoration of Doctrine
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Real vs. Rumor : How to Dispel Latter-day Myths
Reconciling Joseph Smith-History 1:10 and 1:18-19
Rewriting Eden With The Book of Mormon : Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. The Standard of Truth 1815–1846.
Scriptural Principles for Visual Media
Sidney Rigdon's Plea to the Saints : Transcription of Thomas Bullock's Shorthand Notes from the August 8, 1844, Morning Meeting
Spirit Babies and Divine Embodiment : PBEs, First Vision Accounts, Bible Scholarship, and the Experience-Centered Approach to Mormon Folklore
Suspicion or Trust : Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
"That Most Important of All Books" : A Printing History of The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon Translation Process
The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days
The Death of Laban: A Literary Interpretation
The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context: The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
The First Vision and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Holy Invitation: Understanding Your Sacred Temple Endowment
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 5 : October 1835–January 1838
The Lost 116 Pages : Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
"The Perfect Union of Man and Woman" : Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith's Theology Making
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress
"Thou Wast Willing to Lay Down Thy Life for thy Brethren" : Zion's Blessings in the Early Church
Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon : “Days [and Hours] Never to Be Forgotten”
"To Seek the Law of the Lord": Essays in Honor of John W. Welch
Toward a Mormon Literary Theory
Variety and Complexity in the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon
Visions in a Seer Stone : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads : Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens
We'll Sing and We'll Shout: The Life and Times of William W. Phelps
"We'll Sing and We'll Shout!" : Who is the Real W. W. Phelps?
What Did the Interpreters (Urim and Thummim) Look Like?
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
What the First Vision Means to Me : Reflections, Both Spiritual and Professional
When Did Joseph Smith Know the Father and the Son Have “Tangible” Bodies?
When Pages Collide : Dissecting the Words of Mormon
Where was the Aaronic Priesthood Restored? : Identifying the Location of John the Baptist's Appearance, May 15, 1829
W. W. Phelps : Scribe and Associate to Joseph Smith in Kirtland, 1835-1836
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology