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Learn more about textual studies of the Book of Mormon
FAIR links
  • L. Ara Norwood, "Benjamin or Mosiah: Resolving an Anomaly in Mosiah 21:28," Proceedings of the 2001 FAIR Conference (August 2001). link
  • Randall Spackman, "Chronological Structure and Symbolism in the Small Plates of Nephi - Presentation Handout," Proceedings of the 2018 FAIR Conference (August 2018). link
Online
  • Nathan J. Arp, "An Analysis of Mormon's Narrative Strategies Employed on the Zeniffite Narrative and Their Effect on Limhi," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/7 (24 November 2023). [159–190] link
  • Nathan J. Arp, "Count Your Many Mormons: Mormon's Personalized and Personal Messages in Mosiah 18 and 3 Nephi 5," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41/4 (20 November 2020). [75–86] link
  • Nathan J. Arp, "Mormon's Narrative Strategies to Provide Literary Justice for Gideon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58/8 (22 September 2023). [167–222] link
  • Quinten Barney, "Samuel the Lamanite, Christ, and Zenos: A Study of Intertextuality," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18/11 (29 January 2016). [159–170] link
  • RoseAnn Benson, "The Title of Liberty and Ancient Prophecy," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23/12 (10 February 2017). [299–308] link
  • Matthew L. Bowen, "'But That Thou Wouldst Clear My Way Before Me': A Note on the Personal and Emotional Rendering of an Ancient Idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53/2 (2 September 2022). [31–36] link
  • Matthew L. Bowen, "'Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You?': Moroni's Charged Rhetoric in Alma 60:30–32," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51/8 (13 May 2022). [199–210] link
  • Matthew L. Bowen, "'Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love': The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/5 (10 November 2023). [109–134] link
  • Matthew L. Bowen, "'For Their Good Have I Written Them': The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53/5 (23 September 2022). [77–90] link
  • Matthew L. Bowen, "'The Messiah Will Set Himself Again': Jacob's Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44/8 (16 April 2021). [287–306] link
  • Matthew L. Bowen, "'Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks': The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13–15," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53/9 (7 October 2022). [145–170] link
  • Duane Boyce, "'Beloved by All the People': A Fresh Look at Captain Moroni," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 45/9 (21 May 2021). [181–204] link
  • Duane Boyce, "Did Captain Moroni Lack the Typical Religious Virtues?," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 45/11 (28 May 2021). [217–240] link
  • Duane Boyce, "Reclaiming Jacob," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22/5 (14 October 2016). [107–130] link
  • Amanda Colleen Brown-Mather, "Alma's Reality: Reading Alma as Sinful, Repentant, Traumatized, Questioning, and Righteous," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46/12 (6 August 2021). [249–252] link
  • Stanford Carmack, "Barlow on Book of Mormon Language: An Examination of Some Strained Grammar," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27/11 (17 November 2017). [185–196] link
  • Stanford Carmack, "How Joseph Smith's Grammar Differed from Book of Mormon Grammar: Evidence from the 1832 History," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25/11 (9 June 2017). [239–260] link
  • Stanford Carmack, "Is the Book of Mormon a Pseudo-Archaic Text?," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28/11 (16 March 2018). [177–232] link
  • Stanford Carmack, "The Case of Plural Was in the Earliest Text," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18/8 (2016). [109–137] link
  • Stanford Carmack, "The Case of the -th Plural in the Earliest Text," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18/1 (2016). [79–108] link
  • Stanford Carmack, "The More Part of the Book of Mormon Is Early Modern English," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18/6 (1 January 2016). [41–64] link
  • Godfrey J. Ellis, "Experiential Knowledge and the Covenantal Relationship in Alma 7," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51/2 (8 April 2022). [29–80] link
  • Godfrey J. Ellis, "Nephi's Eight Years in the 'Wilderness': Reconsidering Definitions and Details," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57/11 (28 July 2023). [281–356] link
  • Godfrey J. Ellis, "The Rise and Fall of Korihor, a Zoramite: A New Look at the Failed Mission of an Agent of Zoram," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 48/4 (22 October 2021). [49–94] link
  • Godfrey J. Ellis, "Toward a Greater Appreciation of the Word Adieu in Jacob 7:27," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 55/4 (17 February 2023). [169–196] link
  • Martin Oman Evans, "Second Nephi as a Legal Document," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 60/8 (9 February 2024). [253–312] link
  • Brant A. Gardner, "Exploring the Complex Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/3 (27 October 2023). [53–80] link
  • Brant A. Gardner, "Perhaps Close can Count in More than Horseshoes," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 21/6 (29 July 2016). [235–238] link\
  • Brant A. Gardner, "When Hypotheses Collide: Responding to Lyon and Minson's 'When Pages Collide'," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 5/3 (31 May 2013). [105–120] link
  • Brant A. Gardner, "Witnessing to the New Witness," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 52/7 (29 July 2022). [191–204] link
  • John Gee, "Verbal Punctuation in the Book of Mormon II — Nevertheless," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57/6 (7 July 2023). [195–208] link
  • Gary P. Gillum, "Miracles in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27/10 (10 November 2017). [181–184] link
  • Alan Goff, "Alma's Prophetic Commissioning Type Scene," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51/5 (29 April 2022). [115–164] link
  • Alan Goff, "The Dance of Reader and Text: Salomé, the Daughter of Jared, and the Regal Dance of Death," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57/1 (2 June 2023). [1–52] link
  • Alan Goff, "Vox Populi and Vox Dei: Allusive Explorations of Biblical and Book of Mormon Politeias," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 47/1 (27 August 2021). [1–80] link
  • Alan Goff, "Working out Salvation History in the Book Of Mormon Politeia with Fear and Trembling," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42/1 (8 January 2021). [1–20] link}
  • Taylor Halverson, "Nephi Wanted to Be a Prophet Like Moses, Not a King Like David," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/9 (8 December 2023). [281–292] link
  • Taylor Halverson, "Nephi's Gethsemane: Seventeen Comparisons from the Literary Record," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46/1 (25 June 2021). [1–14] link
  • Taylor Halverson, "Reading 1 Nephi With Wisdom," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22/10 (11 November 2016). [279–294] link
  • Taylor Halverson, "The Origin and Purpose of the Book of Mormon Phrase 'If Ye Keep My Commandments Ye Shall Prosper in the Land'," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46/9 (23 July 2021). [201–208] link
  • Lyle H. Hamblin, "Proper Names and Political Claims: Semitic Echoes as Foundations for Claims to the Nephite Throne," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 60/11 (1 March 2024). [409–444] link
  • Blaine L. Hart, "Recovering the Lost Concept of Truth in the Restoration Scriptures: Another Key to Understanding God's Word," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 60/12 (8 March 2024). [445–468] link
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "Additional Janus Parallels in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 47/2 (3 September 2021). [81–90] link
  • John Hilton III and Jana Johnson, "The Word Baptize in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 29/4 (1 June 2018). [65–80] link
  • Elliott Jolley, "Gazelem the Jaredite," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27/6 (13 October 2017). [85–106] link
  • Val Larsen, "A Mormon Theodicy: Jacob and the Problem of Evil," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 15/13 (12 June 2015). [239–266] link
  • Val Larsen, "Josiah to Zoram to Sherem to Jarom and the Big Little Book of Omni," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44/5 (9 April 2021). [217–264] link
  • David J. Larsen, "Overwriting Ether: Moroni's Transfiguration of Jaredite Scripture," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50/9 (25 February 2022). [145–160] link
  • Val Larsen, "Prophet or Loss: Mosiah1/Zeniff, Benjamin/Noah, Mosiah2/Limhi and the Emergence of the Almas," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 60/10 (23 February 2024). [367–408] link
  • Val Larsen, "Restoration: A Theological Poem in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 10/10 (20 June 2014). [239–256] link
  • Newell D. Wright and Val Larsen, "The Holy Ghost in the Book of Moroni: Possessed of Charity," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57/2 (9 June 2023). [53–76] link
  • Jeff Lindsay, "'Arise from the Dust': Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Tracks from the Book of Moses)," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22/9 (4 November 2016). [179-232] link
  • Jeff Lindsay, "'Arise from the Dust': Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Enthronement, Resurrection, and Other Ancient Motifs from the 'Voice from the Dust')," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22/9 (11 November 2016). [233-277] link
  • Jeff Lindsay, "'Arise from the Dust': Insights from Dust-Related Themes in the Book of Mormon (Part 3: Dusting Off a Famous Chiasmus, Alma 36)," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22/11 (18 November 2016). [295–318] link}
  • Jeff Lindsay, "The Book of Mormon Versus the Consensus of Scholars: Surprises from the Disputed Longer Ending of Mark, Part 1," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25/14 (30 June 2017). [283–322] link}
  • Jeff Lindsay, "The Book of Mormon Versus the Consensus of Scholars: Surprises from the Disputed Longer Ending of Mark, Part 2," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25/15 (7 July 2017). [323–366] link
  • Jeff Lindsay, "The Possibility of Janus Parallelism in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28/1 (5 January 2018). [1–20] link
  • Benjamin L. McGuire, "Nephi: A Postmodernist Reading," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 12/3 (5 September 2014). [49–78] link
  • Benjamin McMurtry, "The Amlicites and Amalekites: Are They the Same People?," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25/13 (23 June 2017). [269–282] link
  • Andrew Miller, "King Benjamin's Sermon as a Type of Temple Endowment," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61/1 (22 March 2024). [1–44] link
  • George L. Mitton, "The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book and a Type of Christ," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42/10 (8 February 2021). [371–396] link
  • Dennis Newton, "Nephi's Change of Heart," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20/9 (17 June 2016). [261–292] link
  • Steven L. Olsen, "Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as Historian," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 52/6 (22 July 2022). [183–190] link
  • Steven L. Olsen, "The Covenant of Christ's Gospel in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40/11 (2 November 2020). [283–318] link
  • Daniel C. Peterson, "Oh, That I Were an Angel!," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 48/0 (5 November 2021). [vii–xiv] link
  • Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye, "Covenant Theology for Latter-day Saints," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50/5 (28 January 2022). [79–92] link|.|pages=|start=|end=}}|pages=|start=|end=}}|pages=|start=|end=}}|pages=|start=|end=}}
  • Neal Rappleye, "'Idle and Slothful Strange Stories': Book of Mormon Origins and the Historical Record," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20/3 (20 May 2016). [21–38] link
  • Neal Rappleye, "Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50/11 (11 March 2022). [217–298] link
  • Neal Rappleye, "'The Time is Past': A Note on Samuel's Five-Year Prophecy," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 29/2 (18 May 2018). [21–30] link
  • Neal Rappleye, "'With the Tongue of Angels': Angelic Speech as a Form of Deification," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 21/11 (2 September 2016). [303–324] link
  • Robert A. Rees, "Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance: An Update," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19/1 (26 February 2016). [1–16] link
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "Lehi's Dream, Nephi's Blueprint: How Nephi Uses the Vision of the Tree of Life as an Outline for 1 and 2 Nephi," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 52/9 (5 August 2022). [231–278] link
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "Nephi's Small Plates: A Rhetorical Analysis," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50/7 (11 February 2022). [99–122] link|.|pages=|start=|end=}}|pages=|start=|end=}}|pages=|start=|end=}}|pages=|start=|end=}}
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "On Doubting Nephi's Break Between 1 and 2 Nephi: A Critique of Joseph Spencer's An Other Testament: On Typology," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25/5 (28 April 2017). [85–102] link
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "The Goodness of God and His Children as a Fundamental Theological Concept in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46/7 (16 July 2021). [131–156] link
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "The Nephite Metaphor of Life as a Probation: Rethinking Nephi's Portrayal of Laman and Lemuel," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57/10 (21 July 2023). [231–280] link
  • David R. Seely, "'A Prophet Like Moses' (Deuteronomy 18:15–18) in the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Dead Sea Scrolls," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41/16 (21 December 2020). [265–280] link
  • Royal Skousen, "The Pleading Bar of God," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42/2 (11 January 2021). [21–36] link
  • Andrew C. Smith, "Abinadi: A Minor Prophet, A Major Contributor," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28/15 (6 April 2018). [261–272] link
  • Skyler R. Smith, "Heavenly Ascent in Jacob's Writings in Second Nephi: Addressing the Question of What the Plan of Salvation is in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 60/3 (19 January 2024). [137–182] link
  • Gerald E. Smith, "Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Evidence of an Imperfect, Authentic, Ancient Work of Scripture)," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23/1 (2 December 2016). [1–44] link
  • Gerald E. Smith, "Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Structural Evidences of Earlier Ancient versus Later Modern Constructions)," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23/3 (9 December 2016). [53–90] link
  • Robert F. Smith, "Poesy and Prosody in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42/4 (18 January 2021). [41–76] link
  • Stephen O. Smoot, "Approaching Abinadi," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28/14 (6 April 2018). [257–260] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "Abraham's Amen and Believing in Christ: Possible Applications in the Book of Mormon Text," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 49/3 (19 November 2021). [37–62] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "Limhi's Discourse: Proximity and Distance in Teaching," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 8/1 (15 November 2013). [1–6] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 54/2 (25 November 2022). [65–96] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "Say Now Shibboleth, or Maybe Cumorah," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 15/6 (24 April 2015). [33–64] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "Stained Swords: A Psalm of Redemption," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 54/7 (30 December 2022). [195–206] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "The Word of the Lord as a Metonym for Christ," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 49/6 (3 December 2021). [137–166] link
  • Loren Blake Spendlove, "Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 11/3 (25 July 2014). [97–160] link
  • Matthew Scott Stenson, "'According to the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy': Alma2's Prophetic Warning of Christ's Coming to the Lehites (and Others)," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 55/3 (10 February 2023). [107–168] link
  • A. Keith Thompson, "The Doctrine of Resurrection in the Book of Mormon," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 16/6 (31 July 2015). [101–130] link
  • A. Keith Thompson, "Were We Foreordained to the Priesthood, or Was the Standard of Worthiness Foreordained? Alma 13 Reconsidered," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 21/8 (12 August 2016). [249–274] link
  • A. Keith Thompson, "Who Was Sherem?," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 14/1 (9 January 2015). [1–16] link
  • Todd Uriona, "Assyria and the 'Great Church' of Nephi's Vision," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 55/1 (27 January 2023). [1–30] link
  • Samuel Zinner, "'Zion' and 'Jerusalem' as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi's Tree of Life Vision," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 12/10 (24 October 2014). [281–324] link
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