Old Testament
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Bibliography by Author
This Old Testament Bibliography is based on two previous publications, with the permission and help of their primary author, David Seely:
- Seely, David Rolph, W. Kenneth Hamblin, and Erica L. Holland. “Old Testament Bibliography: Latter-day Saint Publications, 1997–2005.” BYU Studies 45, no. 1 (2006): 143-171. https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/old-testament-bibliography-latter-day-saint-publications-19972005/
- Seely, David Rolph. “Reading the Old Testament in Light of the Restoration: A Comprehensive Bibliography of LDS Writings on the Old Testament (1830–1997).” BYU Studies 37, no. 2 (1997–98): 155-279. https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/reading-the-old-testament-in-light-of-the-restoration-a-comprehensive-bibliography-of-lds-writings-on-the-old-testament-18301997/
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“‘Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother’” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 1991.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Ten Commandments
ID = [16643] Status = Type = talk Date = 1991-04-01 Collections: general-conference,old-test Size: 14259 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:17:31 “‘Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother’” Ensign, May 1991, 14–17.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Topics > Ten Commandments
ID = [49985] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1991-05-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 14148 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:13:30Old Testament Topics > Ten Commandments
“Scripture Reading, Revelation, and Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible.” In Plain and Precious Truths Restored: The Doctrinal and Historical Significance of the Joseph Smith Translation, ed. Robert L. Millet and Robert J. Matthews, 1–15. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1995.
Topics: Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
ID = [67877] Status = Type = book article Date = 1995-01-01 Collections: old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:29 “Lessons from the Old Testament: Courage to Follow the Lord.” Ensign, April 2006.
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ID = [56887] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 2006-04-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 3523 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:20:44
“All the Prophets Prophesied of Christ.” Ensign, January 1994, 31–37.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Jesus Christ, the God of the Old and the New Testament
Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
ID = [51302] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1994-01-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 12974 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:20:00Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
“Amos through Malachi: Major Teachings of the Twelve Prophets.” Religious Educator Vol. 4 no. 3 (2003).
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
ID = [38040] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 2003-01-03 Collections: old-test,rel-educ Size: 71083 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:22:54RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
“The Book of Amos.” In 1 Kings to Malachi, Studies in Scripture, vol. 4, ed. Kent P. Jackson, 426–47. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
ID = [67156] Status = Type = book article Date = 1993-01-01 Collections: old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:24 “The Book of Micah.” In 1 Kings to Malachi, Studies in Scripture, vol. 4, ed. Kent P. Jackson, 463–66. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993.
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ID = [67158] Status = Type = book article Date = 1993-01-01 Collections: old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:24 “The Book of Nahum.” In 1 Kings to Malachi, Studies in Scripture, vol. 4, ed. Kent P. Jackson, 68–74. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993.
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ID = [67126] Status = Type = book article Date = 1993-01-01 Collections: old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:23 “God’s Testing Ground of Faith: The Impact of Israel’s Geography on Old Testament History.” In A Symposium on the Old Testament, 252–58. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1979.
Topics: Old Testament Topics > Geography
ID = [67765] Status = Type = book article Date = 1979-01-01 Collections: old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:28 The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Proceedings of The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
The 38th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium The Prophet Joseph Smith said that those who read the Bible can “see God’s own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand [of God] wherever he can see it.” We cannot be true students of the Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants without also being students of the Old Testament, for Jesus declared that the Old Testament scriptures “are they which testify of me” (John 5:39). This book of scripture serves as the First Testament of Jesus Christ. ISBN 978-1-60641-138-4 Published in 2009
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ID = [37912] Status = Type = book Date = 2009-01-01 Collections: bom,d-c,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video Size: Children: 16 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:22:53
“Jerusalem.” Ensign, April 2003, 12–21.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Geography
Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [55592] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 2003-04-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 3155 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:20:34Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
Jerusalem: The Eternal City. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996.
Topics: Old Testament Topics > History
Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
ID = [39724] Status = Type = book Date = 1966-01-01 Collections: old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:23:03Old Testament Topics > Jerusalem
“Messiah.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 2:892. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Keywords: Jesus Christ, Messiah, Savior
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ID = [74748] Status = Type = book article Date = 1992-01-01 Collections: bmc-archive,eom,old-test Size: 7323 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:31
“Old Testament Canaan: Home of the Prophets.” Ensign, January 1990.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Geography
ID = [49366] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1990-01-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 344 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:13:26 “Remember the Sabbath Day.” Ensign, April 1994, 46–51.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Topics > Sabbath
Old Testament Topics > Ten Commandments
ID = [51440] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1994-04-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 17689 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:20:02Old Testament Topics > Sabbath
Old Testament Topics > Ten Commandments
“A Sampler of Biblical Plants.” Ensign, August 1990, 35–39.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Flora and Fauna
ID = [49641] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1990-08-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 14515 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:13:28 “The Testing Ground for the Covenant People.” Ensign, September. 1980, 54–58.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Geography
ID = [45099] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1980-09-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 15323 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:12:57 “Was the gospel of Jesus Christ known to Adam and his posterity?” Ensign, February 1994, 62.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Adam and Eve [see also Fall]
Old Testament Topics > Jesus Christ, the God of the Old and the New Testament
ID = [51366] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1994-02-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 1067 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:20:01Old Testament Topics > Adam and Eve [see also Fall]
Old Testament Topics > Jesus Christ, the God of the Old and the New Testament
“When did the use of consecrated olive oil in priesthood blessings originate, and what part does the oil play in the blessing?” Ensign, October 1991, 60–62.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Olive Oil
Old Testament Topics > Priesthood
ID = [50223] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 1991-10-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 5748 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:19:53Old Testament Topics > Priesthood
“The Savior’s Use of the Old Testament.” Ensign, July 2002, 46–51.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Jesus Christ, the God of the Old and the New Testament
Old Testament Topics > New Testament and the Old Testament
ID = [55294] Status = Type = magazine article Date = 2002-07-01 Collections: ensign,old-test Size: 14073 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:20:32Old Testament Topics > New Testament and the Old Testament
“Birth and Calling of the Prophet Samuel: A Literary Reading of the Biblical Text.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 1 (2017): 7.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
ID = [10709] Status = Type = journal article Date = 2017-01-01 Collections: byu-studies,old-test Size: 64414 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:18:08 “The Matriarchs: Administrators of God’s Covenantal Blessings.” In From Creation to Sinai, eds. Daniel L. Belnap and Aaron P. Schade. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2021.
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ID = [33859] Status = Type = book article Date = 2021-01-01 Collections: old-test,rsc-books Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:22:22
“‘Out of Zion Shall Go Forth the Law’ (Isaiah 2:3).” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 1 (2000): 113-135.
Review of Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (1988), by Edwin B. Firmage and Richard C. Mangrum
Keywords: Early Church History; Laws; Legal
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [340] Status = Type = review Date = 2000-01-01 Collections: bmc-archive,farms-review,old-test Size: 51972 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:15:39 Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. Orientalia Judaica Christiana 2. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009.
Topics: Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources
ID = [2515] Status = Type = book Date = 2009-01-01 Collections: moses,old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:15:54Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources
Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Topics: Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources
ID = [2517] Status = Type = book Date = 2013-01-01 Collections: abraham,moses,old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:15:54Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources
Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 23. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2009.
Topics: Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources
ID = [2514] Status = Type = book Date = 2009-01-01 Collections: moses,old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:15:54Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources
“Seed of Abraham.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 3:1292. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Keywords: Abrahamic Covenant, Lineage, Seed of Abraham, Twelve Tribes of Israel
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ID = [75020] Status = Type = book article Date = 1992-01-01 Collections: bmc-archive,eom,old-test Size: 1613 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 18:55:51
“Abraham: An Egyptian Connection.” Preliminary Report. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1981.
Blake Ostler examines what relationship exists between the papyri of the ancient Egyptian Book of Breathings possessed by Joseph Smith and the Book of Abraham. Ostler finds that Joseph Smith, in associating vignettes of the Book of the Dead to explain Abraham’s experiences, was actually duplicating an ancient practice about which he could not have known from secular sources available in his day.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price; Book of Abraham
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
ID = [1520] Status = Type = journal article Date = 1981-09-02 Collections: abraham,bmc-archive,farms-reports,old-test Size: 43169 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:15:47 “The Throne-Theophany and Prophetic Commission in 1 Nephi: A Form-Critical Analysis.” Brigham Young University Studies 26, no. 4 (1986): 67.
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Topics: Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
ID = [10301] Status = Type = journal article Date = 1986-01-04 Collections: bom,byu-studies,old-test Size: 1003 Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:18:05Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
“Isaiah’s Voice on the Promised Millenium.” In Voices of Old Testament Prophets: The 26th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, eds. Wright, Dennis A., Craig James Ostler, Dana M. Pike, Dee R. Darling, and Patty Smith, 61–85. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Isaiah
ID = [38806] Status = Type = book article Date = 1997-01-01 Collections: old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry,rsc-video Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:23:00 Voices of Old Testament Prophets: The 26th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. 1997 Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997.
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Topics: Old Testament Topics > Symposia and Collections of Essays
ID = [39678] Status = Type = book Date = 1997-01-01 Collections: old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry Size: Children: 12 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:23:03 Chapitres de Rabbi Éliézer (Pirqé de Rabbi Éliézer): Midrach sur Genèse, Exode, Nombres, Esther. Les Dix Paroles, ed. Charles Mopsik. Lagrasse, France: Éditions Verdier, 1992.
Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Esther
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts
ID = [2518] Status = Type = book Date = 1992-01-01 Collections: moses,old-test Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:15:54Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Esther
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts
“The Habakkuk Principle: Abigail and the Minor Prophet.” In Voices of Old Testament Prophets: The 26th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, eds. Wright, Dennis A., Craig James Ostler, Dana M. Pike, Dee R. Darling, and Patty Smith, 134–61. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997.
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Twelve Minor Prophets
Old Testament Topics > Women in the Old Testament
ID = [39683] Status = Type = book article Date = 1997-01-01 Collections: old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 9:23:03Old Testament Topics > Women in the Old Testament
“Kibroth—Hattaavah: The Graves of Lust.” In The Old Testament and the Latter-day Saints: The 14th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 95–109. [Salt Lake City]: Randall Book, 1987.
Examples from Israelite history and modern times of looking beyond the mark in search of personal, prideful desires
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Topics: Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
ID = [67070] Status = Type = book article Date = 1987-01-01 Collections: old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry Size: Children: 0 Rebuilt: 9/26/24 10:21:23
