Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest

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The Plates and the Three, Eight, and Other Witnesses

• Robert L. Marrott, "Law of Witnesses" (Link)
• Steven C. Harper, "Evaluating the Book of Mormon Witnesses" (Link)
• FAIR collection of articles on Book of Mormon Witnesses (Link)
• Keith W. Perkins, "David Whitmer" (Link)
• Susan Easton Black, and Larry C. Porter, ""Rest Assured, Martin Harris Will Be Here in Time"" (Link)
• Larry E. Morris, "The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery" (Link)
• A. Bryan Weston, "Witnesses—Those Who Assist to Bring Forth This Work" (Link)
• Larry C. Porter, "The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism" (Link)
• Rex C. Reeve Jr., “The Book of Mormon Plates,” (Link)
• H. Curtis Wright and Elisabeth R. Sutton, "Evidence of Ancient Writing on Metal: An Interview with H. Curtis Wright" (Link)
• FAIR Entry: "Golden Plates" (Link)

Translation of the Book of Mormon

• John W. Welch and Tim Rathbone, "How Long Did It Take to Translate the Book of Mormon?" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "How long did it take Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon?" (Ensign)
• John W. Welch and Tim Rathbone, "Translation of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith" (Link)
• Stephen D. Ricks, "Translation of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Stephen D. Ricks, "Joseph Smith's Translation of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Matthew Roper, "Revelation and the Urim and Thummim" (Link)
• Paul Y. Hoskisson, "Urim and Thummim" (Link)
• Hugh Nibley, "Classics from the Past: Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation" (Link)
• Richard L. Bushman and Dean C. Jessee, "Joseph Smith" (Link)
• Richard E. Turley Jr., "Seer Stones" (Link)

Textual History of the English Translation of the Book of Mormon

• M. Gerald Bradford and Alison V.P. Coutts, "Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon (Collection)" (Link)
• Royal Skousen,"Fragments of Original Manuscript Discovered," (Link)
• Stan Larson, "Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Robert J. Matthews, "The New Publications of the Standard Works—1979, 1981" (Link)
• Royal Skousen, "Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Royal Skousen, "History of the Critical Text Project of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Royal Skousen, "Why was one sixth of the 1830 Book of Mormon set from the original manuscript?" (Link)
• George A. Horton Jr., “Book of Mormon—Transmission from Translator to Printed Text,” (Link)
• FAIR Entry: "Book of Mormon Textual Changes" (Link)

Language

• FAIR entry on "Hebrew and Native American languages" (Link)
• FAIR entry on "Reformed Egyptian (Link)
• Brian Stubbs, "Looking Over vs. Overlooking: Native American Languages: Let's Void the Void" (Link)
• Paul Y. Hoskisson, "It Is OK Not to Have Every Answer: The Book of Mormon Onomastic Ending -(i)hah" (Link)

Title Page

• Overview
  • Jay E. Jensen, "The Precise Purposes of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Daniel H. Ludlow, “The Title Page,” (Link)
• "Wherefore, it is an abridgment of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites"
  • John L. Sorenson, "Mormon's Sources" (Link)
  • David B. Honey, "The Secular as Sacred: The Historiography of the Title Page" (Link)
• "And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men"
  • Royal Skousen, "The Original Book of Mormon Transcript" (Link)
• "Author and Proprietor" (1830 Title Page)
  • John W. Welch, and Miriam Smith, "Joseph Smith: "Author and Proprietor"" (Link)
• Authorship and Writing of the Title Page
  • Clyde J. Williams. "More Light on Who Wrote the Title Page" (Link)
  • Sidney B. Sperry, "Moroni the Lonely: The Story of the Writing of the Title Page to the Book of Mormon" (Link)

Introduction

• "written on gold plates"
  • John Gee, "Egyptian Writing on Gold 'Plates'" (Link, URL for article doesn't work, click on PDF file to view article)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Etruscan Gold Book from 600 B.C. Discovered" (Link)
  • "More Gold Plates" (Link)
  • "Another Gold Book Found"(Link)(Link)
  • FAIR entry on "gold plates" (Link)
• "they are among the ancestors of the American Indians."
  • Daniel C. Peterson (Editor), "The Book of Mormon and DNA Research" (Link)
  • Michael F. Whiting, "The Book of Mormon at the Bar of DNA 'Evidence'" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Relationship to Amerindians" (Link)

Pronunciation Guide

• Mary Jane Woodger, "How the Guide to English Pronunciation of Book of Mormon Names Came About" (Link)
• Frederick M. Huchel, "The Deseret Alphabet as an Aid in Pronouncing Book of Mormon Names" (Link)

Structure and Composition of the Book of Mormon, Literary Elements

• Whole Book of Mormon
  • Donald W. Perry, "Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text Reformatted" (Link)
  • Grant R. Hardy and Robert E. Parsons, "Plates and Records in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Daniel B. McKinlay, and Scot Hanson, "A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features" (Link)

• Chiasmus and Other Particular Devices
  • Robert F. Smith, "Assessing the Broad Impact of Jack Welch's Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "The Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon: Forty Years Later" (Link)
  • Hugh W. Pinnock, "Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in Antiquity (Collection)" (Link)

• Literary Qualities
  • Richard Dilworth Rust, "Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon (Collection)" (Link)
  • Donald W. Perry, "The Book of Mormon: Integrity and Internal Consistency" (Link)
  • Marilyn Arnold, "Unlocking the Sacred Text" (Link)
  • Richard Dilworth Rust, "Questions Answered: My Study and Teaching of American Literature and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Good and True" (Link)
  • Robert A. Rees, "Irony in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Blair G. Van Dyke, "Light or Dark, Freedom or Bondage: Enhancing Book of Mormon Themes through Contrasts" (foils) (Link)
  • Charles Swift, "When Less Is More: The Reticent Narrator in the Story of Alma and Amulek" (Link)

• Biblical Style and Language
  • FAIR Entry: "Bible Plagiarism" (Link)
  • Royal Skousen, "Critical Methodology and the Text of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Brian D. Stubbs, "Language" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "October 1986 Ensign: I have a question (on Book of Mormon language)" (Ensign)

• Grammar and Hebraisms
  • Brian D. Stubbs, "A Lengthier Treatment of Length" (Link)
  • Brian D. Stubbs, "A Short Addition to Length: Some Relative Frequencies of Circumstantial Structures" (Link)
  • Larry G. Childs, "Present Participle Adjuncts in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey" (Link)
  • Donald W. Parry, "Why is the phrase “and it came to pass” so prevalent in the Book of Mormon?" (Ensign)

Historical Studies

• John W. Welch, "Was There a Library in Harmony, Pennsylvania?" (Link)
• Daniel C. Peterson and Donald L. Enders, "Can the 1834 Affidavits Attacking the Smith Family be Trusted?" (Link)
• Donald Q. Cannon, "In the Press: Early Newspaper Reports on the Initial Publication of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Matthew Roper, "Early Publications on the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Stephen Kent Ehat, "'Securing' the Prophet's Copyright in the Book of Mormon: Historical and Legal Context for the So-Called Canadian Copyright Revelation," (Extended Online Version)
• Cameron J. Packer, "Acquiring Cumorah" (Link)

• Warren P. Aston, "The Rings That Bound the Gold Plates Together" (Link)

• John W. Welch, "What the Original Book of Mormon Manuscript Is Not" (Link)

• John W. Welch, "View of the Hebrews: "An Unparallel"" (Link)
• Richard C. Roberts, "View of the Hebrews" (Link)
• Richard E. Bennett, ""A Nation Now Extinct," American Indian Origin Theories as of 1820: Samuel L. Mitchill, Martin Harris, and the New York Theory" (Link)

• Anthon Transcript
  • Stanley B. Kimball, "The Anthon Transcript: People, Primary Sources, and Problems" (Link)
  • Danel W. Bachman, "Sealed in a Book: Preliminary Observations on the Newly Found “Anthon Transcript”" (Link)
  • David E. Sloan, "The Anthon Transcripts and the Translation of the Book of Mormon: Studying It Out in the Mind of Joseph Smith" (Link)
  • Anonymous, "New Light: "Anthon Transcript" Writing Found?" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, Gordon C. Thomasson, and Robert F. Smith, "What Did Charles Anthon Really Say?" (Link)

Miscellaneous Items

• Stephen D. Ricks, "Studies of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "Roberts Affirms Book of Mormon Antiquity" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "No, Sir, That's Not History!" (Link)
• John L. Sorenson and John W. Welch, "The Sobering Lesson of the Grolier Codex" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "Hugh Nibley and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Marilyn Arnold, ""Words, words, words": Hugh Nibley on the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Donald W. Parry, Jeanette W. Miller, and Sandra A. Thorne, "A Comprehensive Annotated Book of Mormon Bibliography" (Link)
• Paul Y. Hoskisson, and Michael D. Rhodes, "Ancient Semitic in Egyptian Pyramids?" (Link)
• Pre-Columbian Old World - New World Contact
  • John L. Sorenson, "Ancient Europeans in America?" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "Transoceanic Crossings" (Link)
  • Stephen C. Jett, "Before Columbus: The Question of Early Transoceanic Interinfluences" (Link)
  • George F. Carter, “Before Columbus,” (Link)
  • Norman Totten, “Categories of Evidence for Old World Contacts with Ancient America,” (Link)
  • Paul R. Cheesman, “Cultural Parallels between the Old World and the New World,” (Link)

Geography

• John W. Welch, "Charting the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• William J. Hamblin, "Basic Methodological Problems with the Anti-Mormon Approach to the Geography and Archaeology of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• John E. Clark, "Revisiting "A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies"" (Link)
• John L. Sorenson, "Mormon's Map (Collection)" (Link)
• Sidney B. Sperry, "Were There Two Cumorahs?" (Link)
• FAIR Entry: "Book of Mormon Geography" (Link)
• Correlating Civilizations (Video)
• The New World - Book of Mormon Documentary (Video)
• Andrew H. Hedges, "The Narrow Neck of Land" (Link)
• Andrew H. Hedges, "Cumorah and the Limited Mesoamerican Theory" (Link)
• Matthew P. Roper, "Plausibility, Probability, and the Cumorah Question" (Link)
• Andrew H. Hedges, "Problems with Probability: A Response" (Link)

Topical Overview Articles

• John L. Sorenson, "Peoples of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Camille Fronk, "Prophecy in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "Religious Teachings and Practices in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Stephen D. Ricks, "The Book of Mormon and the Dead Sea Scrolls" (Link)
• Victor L. Ludlow, "Covenant Teachings of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Louis Midgley, "To Remember and Keep: On the Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book" (Link)
• John L. Sorenson, "Religious Groups and Movements among the Nephites, 200–1 B.C." (Link)
• Joseph F. McConkie, “A Comparison of Book of Mormon, Bible, and Traditional Teachings on the Doctrines of Salvation,” (Link)
• Kent P. Jackson, “The Beginnings of Christianity in the Book of Mormon,” (Link)
• Stephen D. Ricks, “Fasting in the Book of Mormon and the Bible,” (Link)
• Elder Neal A. Maxwell, “The Book of Mormon: A Great Answer to ‘The Great Question,’” (Link)
• Buck, Deanna, "Internal Evidence of Widespread Literacy in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Black, Sharon, and Brad Wilcox, "188 Unexplainable Names: Book of Mormon Names No Fiction Writer Would Choose" (Link)

Population Demographics in the Book of Mormon

• James E. Smith, “How Many Nephites? The Book of Mormon at the Bar of Demography” (Link)
• John L. Sorenson, "I have heard that the sizes of the Nephite and Lamanite populations indicated in the Book of Mormon do not make sense. What do we know about their numbers?" (Link)
• Matthew Roper, "Nephi's Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations" (Link)

The Book of Mormon and Historicity

• Elder Dallin H. Oaks, "Worthy of Another Look: The Historicity of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Robert L. Millet, "The Book of Mormon, Historicity, & Faith" (Link)
• Hugh Nibley, "The Book of Mormon: A Minimal Statement" (Link)
• Terryl L. Givens, "Joseph Smith's American Bible: Radicalizing the Familiar" (Link)
• Daniel H. Ludlow, "The Challenge of the Book of Mormon," (Link)

The Book of Mormon in Other Languages and Cultures

• Hugh G. Stocks, "Translations of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Shinji Takagi, "Proclaiming the Way in Japanese: The 1909 Translation of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Elder Paul V. Johnson, "Out of the Dust" (Link)

Authorship Studies, Stylometry

• History and Context
  • FAIR Entry: "Authorship Theories" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Myth, Memory, and "Manuscript Found"" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "The Mythical "Manuscript Found"" (Link)
  • Robert A. Rees, "The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing" (Link)
  • Louis Midgley, "Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?: The Critics and Their Theories" (Link)
• Stylometry
  • G. Bruce Schaalje, Matthew Roper, and Paul Fields, "Stylometric Analyses of the Book of Mormon: A Short History" (Link)
  • Bruce A VanOrden, "Sidney Rigdon" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, Paul Fields, and Atul Nepal, "Wordprint Analysis and Joseph Smith's Role as Editor of the Times and Seasons" (Link)
  • John L. Hilton, "On Verifying Wordprint Studies: Book of Mormon Authorship" (Link)
  • John L. Hilton, "Wordprints and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Wayne A. Larsen, and Alvin C. Rencher, "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints" (Link)
  • G. Bruce Schaalje, John L. Hilton, and John B. Archer, "Comparative Power of Three Author-Attribution Techniques for Differentiating Authors" (Link)
  • G. Bruce Schaalje, Matthew Roper, and Paul Fields, "Stylometric Analyses of the Book of Mormon: A Short History" (Link)
  • G. Bruce Schaalje, Matthew Roper, and Paul Fields, "Examining a Misapplication of Nearest Shrunken Centroid Classification to Investigate Book of Mormon Authorship" (Link)
  • G. Bruce Schaalje, Paul J. Fields, Matthew Roper, Gregory L. Snow, "Extended nearest shrunken centroid classification: A new method for open-set authorship attribution of texts of varying sizes" ***Not freely available*** (Link)

Isaiah in the Book of Mormon

• John A. Tvedtnes, "Isaiah Variants in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Donald W. Parry, and Stephen D. Ricks, "Worthy of Another Look: The Great Isaiah Scroll and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Marc Schindler, "Deutero-Isaiah in the Book of Mormon?" (Link)
• Kevin L. Barney, "Isaiah Interwoven" (Link)
• Kevin Christensen, "Open Questions and Suggestions regarding Isaiah in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• S. Kent Brown, "What Is Isaiah Doing in First Nephi? Or, How Did Lehi's Family Fare so Far from Home?" (Link)
• Avraham Gileadi, "Isaiah-Key to the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Sidney B. Sperry, "The Isaiah Quotation: 2 Nephi 12-24" (Link)
• David E. Bokovoy, "On Christ and Covenants: An LDS Reading of Isaiah's Prophetic Call" (Link)
• Paul Y. Hoskisson, "A Latter-day Saint Reading of Isaiah: The Example of Isaiah 6" (Link)
• FAIR entry on "deutero-Isaiah" (Link)
• L. La Mar Adams, "Many non-LDS scholars claim that the second half of the book of Isaiah was written after the time Lehi left Jerusalem, Yet the Book of Mormon contains material from both halves. How do we explain this?" (Ensign)

The Temple in the Book of Mormon

• Don Bradley, "Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages" (Link)
• John Gee, "The Keeper of the Gate" (Link)

Book of Mormon time keeping

• John L. Sorenson, "Comments on Nephite Chronology" (Link)
• John L. Sorenson, "The Nephite Calendar in Mosiah, Alma, and Helaman" (Link)
• Randall P. Spackman, "The Jewish/Nephite Lunar Calendar" (Link)
• Kent Brown and David Seely, “Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure” (Link)
• FAIR article on "the week in the Americas" (Link)
• John P. Pratt, "Book of Mormon Chronology" (Link)
• Mark Wright, "Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

Main Themes

• Jesus Christ
  • Robert J. Matthews, "What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Jesus Christ," (Link)
  • Robert L. Millet, “The Ministry of the Father and the Son,” (Link)
• Atonement
  • Jared W. Ludlow, "The Powers of the Atonement: Insights from the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Faith, Hope, Charity, Love, Etc.
  • Larry E. Dahl, “Faith, Hope, Charity,” (Link)
  • Gayle O. Brown, “Love in the Book of Mormon,” (Link)
• Warfare
  • William J. Hamblin and Stephen D. Ricks, "Warfare in the Book of Mormon" (article collection) (Link)
  • William J. Hamblin, "Warfare in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "Warfare" (Link)
  • Ryan W. Davis, "For the Peace of the People: War and Democracy in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Swords and "Cimeters" in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Eyewitness Descriptions of Mesoamerican Swords" (Link)

• Secret Combinations
  • Ray C. Hillam, "Secret Combination" (Link)
  • Paul Mouritsen, "Secret Combinations and Flaxen Cords: Anti-Masonic Rhetoric and the Book of Mormon" (Link)

• Societal Division
  • Todd M. Compton, "The Spirituality of the Outcast in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "The Charge of 'Racism' in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

• Apostasy
  • John L. Clark, "Painting Out the Messiah: The Theologies of Dissidents" (Link)
  • Susan Black, “‘Lest Ye Become As the Nephites of Old,’” (Link)
  • Mark Alan Wright and Brant A. Gardner, "The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy" (Link)
• Restorations
  • Rodney Turner, “The Three Nephite Churches of Christ,” (Link)

Women and the Book of Mormon

• Camille Williams, "Women in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Camille Fronk, "Desert Epiphany: Sariah and the Women in 1 Nephi" (Link)
• Camille Willams and Donna Lee Bowen, "Ordinary People in the Book of Mormon" (Ensign)

Study and Teaching Methods

• R. Mark Matheson, "Studying the Book of Mormon Online" (Link)
• R. Mark Matheson, "Teaching in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Blair G. Van Dyke, "Light or Dark, Freedom or Bondage: Enhancing Book of Mormon Themes through Contrasts" (Link)
• Anthony R. Sweat, "Active Learning and the Savior’s Nephite Ministry" (Link)
• John Hilton III, ""Look! And I Looked": Lessons in Learning and Teaching from Nephi's Vision" (Link)
• Tyler J. Griffin, "Nephi: An Ideal Teacher of Less-Than-Ideal Students" (Link)
• Shon D. Hopkin, "Preparing Students to Receive Revelation: Insights from the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Tad R. Callister, "Teaching the Atonement" (Link)
• Brent D. Fillmore, "With the Assistance of the Holy Prophets" (Link)

Application of the Book of Mormon to Various Concepts and Principles

• Larry W. Tippetts, "Toward Emotional Maturity: Insights from the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration" (Link)
• RoseAnn Benson and Joseph Fielding McConkie, "A Prophet… Like unto Thee" (Link)
• Noel B. Reynolds, "The Gospel for Graduates" (Link)
• Douglas S. Ladle, "Teaching the Fall of Adam and Eve" (Link)
• Roger R. Keller, "Teaching the Fall and the Atonement: A Comparative Method" (Link)
• D. Todd Christofferson, "The Atonement and the Resurrection" (Link)