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Learn more about history and historicity of the Book of Mormon
Key sources
  • Dallin H. Oaks, "The Historicity of the Book of Mormon" off-site
  • Stephen O. Smoot, "Et Incarnatus Est: The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30/10 (26 October 2018). [125–162] link
FAIR links
  • Brant Gardner, "'A Real People, Time, and Place: Contextualizing the Book of Mormon'," Proceedings of the 2000 FAIR Conference (August 2000). link
  • Brant Gardner, "History and Historicity in the Book of Mormon," Proceedings of the 2015 FAIR Conference (August 2015). link
  • Brant A. Gardner, "The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon’s Production Culture," Proceedings of the 2004 FAIR Conference (August 2004). link
Online
  • Alan Goff, "'Historical Narrative, Literary Narrative—Expelling Poetics from the Republic of History'," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 5/1 (1996). [50–102] link
  • Brant A. Gardner, "A Sympathetic but Flawed Look at Book of Mormon Historicity," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 49/1 (12 November 2021). [1–4] link
  • Spencer Kraus, "A New Look at the Miracles of the Resurrection and the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/10 (8 December 2023). [293–298] link
  • Jeff Lindsay, "Orson Scott Card's 'Artifact or Artifice': Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30/15 (30 November 2018). [253–304] link
  • Newell D. Wright, "Moving Beyond the Historicity Question, or a Manifesto for Future Book of Mormon Research," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 55/9 (24 March 2023). [297–314] link
  • Robert L. Millet, "'The Book of Mormon, Historicity, and Faith'," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 2/2 (1993). [1–3] link
  • William J. Hamblin, "An Apologist for the Critics: Brent Lee Metcalfe's Assumptions and Methodologies (Review of Apologetic and Critical Assumptions about Book of Mormon Historicity by Brent Lee Metcalfe)," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 434–523. off-site
  • Louis Midgley, "The Current Battle over the Book of Mormon: Review of The Word of God Is Enough: The Book of Mormon as Nineteenth-Century Scripture by Anthony A. Hutchinson," FARMS Review of Books 6/1 (1994): 200–254. off-site
  • Louis Midgley, "Atheists and Cultural Mormons Promote a Naturalistic Humanism (Review of Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue by George D. Smith," FARMS Review of Books 7/1 (1995): 229–297. off-site
  • William J. Hamblin, "The Latest Straw Man," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4/2 (1995). [82–92] link
Video
The Case for Historicity: Discerning the Book of Mormon's Production Culture , Brant Gardner, 2004 FAIR Conference
Defenders of the Book: Surveying the New World Evidence for Book of Mormon Historicity, Brant Gardner, 2006 FAIR Conference
Evidences of the Book of Mormon, Daniel C. Peterson, Lecture at Olive Wood Bookstore
Book of Mormon geography, John Sorenson, Lecture at Olive Wood Bookstore

The Bible and the Book of Mormon: A Closer Examination, FAIR Video

Print
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson (ed.), Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001). ISBN 1577349288
  • John L. Sorenson, "Digging into the Book of Mormon: Our Changing Understanding of Ancient America and Its Scripture, Part 1," Ensign (September 1984). off-site
  • John L. Sorenson, "Digging into the Book of Mormon: Our Changing Understanding of Ancient America and Its Scripture, Part 2," Ensign (October 1984). off-site
  • John L. Sorenson, Mormon's Map (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2000). ISBN 0934893489.
  • Hugh W. Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, the World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites, edited by John W. Welch with Darrell L. Matthew and Stephen R. Callister, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988).
  • Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 3rd edition, (Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988).
  • Hugh W. Nibley, Since Cumorah, 2nd edition, (Vol. 7 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988). ISBN 0875791395.
  • Hugh W. Nibley, The Prophetic Book of Mormon (Vol. 8 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989). ISBN 0875791794.
  • John L. Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996 [1985]).
  • Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds and Charles D. Tate (eds.), (Provo, Utah : Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City, Utah : Distributed by Bookcraft, 1996 [1982]). ISBN 0884944697 GospeLink
  • Stephen D. Ricks & John W. Welch (editors), Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994). ISBN 0875797679. GL direct link
  • Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, edited by John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co.; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991).
  • Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992).
  • Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds, (Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997). ISBN 093489325X ISBN 0934893187 ISBN 0884944697. off-site GL direct link
  • Ricks and Hamblin, eds., Warfare in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990).
  • Louis Midgley, "The Acids of Modernity and the Crisis in Mormon Historiography," in Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History, edited by George D. Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 189–225.
    Most of this volume takes the opposite view.
  • Louis Midgley, "The Challenge of Historical Consciousness: Mormon History and the Encounter with Secular Modernity," in By Study and Also By Faith, 2 volumes, edited by John M. Lundquist, Stephen D. Ricks, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1990), 2: 502–551.
  • Paul Y Hoskisson (editor), Historicity and the Latter–Day Saint Scriptures, (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001), ISBN 1577349288.
  • Gary F. Novak, "Naturalistic Assumptions and the Book of Mormon," Brigham Young University Studies 30 no. 3 (1990), 23–40.GL direct link
  • William J. Hamblin, "The Final Step," Sunstone 16:5 no. (Issue #91) (July 1993), 11–12. off-siteoff-site
  • C. Wilfred Griggs, "The Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book," in Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds and Charles D. Tate (eds.), (Provo, Utah : Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City, Utah : Distributed by Bookcraft, 1996 [1982]),75–94. ISBN 0884944697 GospeLinkGL direct link
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