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Greenspahn, Frederick E. “Abstract of Y. Koler ‘Noah’” Old Testament Abstracts 6, no. 483 (1983): 148.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2590]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1983-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Roper, Matthew P. “Adam in Ancient Texts and the Restoration.” Paper presented at the 2006 FairMormon Conference Conference. August, 2006.

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ID = [4755]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2006-08-01  Collections:  fair-conference,moses  Size: 72301  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Callender, Dexter E. Adam in Myth and History: Ancient Israelite Perspectives on the Primal Human. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2448]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Hafen, Bruce C., and Marie K. Hafen. “Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also:
“Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement” (2021)
“Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [2719]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2020-09-19  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Hafen, Bruce C., and Marie K. Hafen. “Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 1–50. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also:
“Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement” (2020)
“Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [4635]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Stone, Michael E. Adam’s Contract with Satan: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2539]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P. “An Age of Contrasts: From Adam to Abraham.” Ensign 26, no. 2, February 1986, 28–30.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings
Old Testament Topics > Old Testament: Overviews and Manuals

ID = [2602]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1986-02-01  Collections:  abraham,ensign,moses,old-test  Size: 11228  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P., and Charles Swift. “The Ages of the Patriarchs in the Joseph Smith Translation.” In A Witness for the Restoration: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Matthews, edited by Kent P. Jackson and Andrew C. Skinner, 1–11. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2007.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament

ID = [2604]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 16041  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Fletcher-Louis, Crispin H. T. All the Glory of Adam: Liturgical Anthropology in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2467]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Roundy, Bruce A., and Robert J. Norman. “‘All Things Denote There is a God’: Seeing Christ in the Creation.” Religious Educator 6, no. 2 (2005): 51–62.
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The Lord told Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, “Look unto me in every thought” (D&C 6:36). In the ordinance of the sacrament we covenant each week to “always remember him,” that we “may always have his Spirit” to be with us (D&C 20:77). The Book of Mormon testifies that “all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all thing that are upon the face of it” (Alma 30:44). Thus, God has given all things as a type or representation of Christ to help us remember Him (see 2 Nephi 11:4; Helaman 8:24). The key to understanding the things of God is to see Christ in them, including His creations.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman

ID = [4697]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,moses  Size: 26879  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “Ancient Affinities within the LDS Book of Enoch Part Two.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 29-74.
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Abstract: In this article, we will examine affinities between ancient extracanonical sources and a collection of modern revelations that Joseph Smith termed “extracts from the Prophecy of Enoch.” We build on the work of previous scholars, revisiting their findings with the benefit of subsequent scholarship. Following a perspective on the LDS canon and an introduction to the LDS Enoch revelations, we will focus on relevant passages in pseudepigrapha and LDS scripture within three episodes in the Mormon Enoch narrative: Enoch’s prophetic commission, Enoch’s encounters with the “gibborim,” and the weeping and exaltation of Enoch and his people.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [4357]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64071  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:56

Currid, John D. Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2457]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Hardy, Grant R. “Ancient History and Modern Commandments: The Book of Mormon in Comparison with Joseph Smith’s Other Revelations.” In Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects and the Making of Mormon Christianity, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Michael Hubbard MacKay and Brian M. Hauglid, 205–227. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2020.
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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2592]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Walton, John H. Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 2 — Creation
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2552]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Parry, Donald W. “Ancient Sacred Vestments: Scriptural Symbols and Meanings.” In Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion, 22 September 2012, edited by William J. Hamblin and David Rolph Seely. Temple on Mount Zion Series 2, 215–235. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [2725]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2012-09-22  Collections:  moses  Size: 46744  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Goff, Matthew, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Enrico Morano, eds. Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2472]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Sparks, Kenton L. Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2537]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bowen, Matthew L. “‘And They Shall Be Had Again’: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 297-304.
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Abstract: Moses 1:41 echoes or plays on the etymological meaning of the name Joseph — “may he [Yahweh] add,” as the Lord foretells to Moses the raising up of a future figure through whom the Lord’s words, after having been “taken” (away) from the book that Moses would write, “shall be had again among the children of men.” Moses 1:41 anticipates and employs language reminiscent of the so-called biblical canon formulas, possible additions to biblical texts meant to ensure the texts’ stability by warning against “adding” or “diminishing” (i.e., “taking away”) from them (e.g., Deuteronomy 4:2; 5:22 [MT 5:18]; 12:32 [MT 13:1]; cf. Revelation 22:18– 19). This article presupposes that the vision of Moses presents restored text that was at some point recorded in Hebrew.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

ID = [3584]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 17297  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:42

Rubinkiewicz, Ryszard. L’Apocalypse d’Abraham en vieux slave : Introduction, texte critique, traduction et commentaire. Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolikiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, Zrodlai i monografie 129. Lublin, Poland: Société des Lettres et des Sciences de l’Université Catholique de Lublin, 1987.

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 — Primary Sources

ID = [2535]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “L’Apocalypse d’Abraham: Témoin Ancien du Livre de Moïse (The Apocalypse of Abraham : Ancient Witness of the Book of Moses).” Invited lecture at the FAIR France Conference, Strasbourg, France. March 29, 2009.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Non-English Resources

ID = [4464]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-03-29  Collections:  abraham,bradshaw,moses,old-test  Size: 25527  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Rubinkiewicz, Ryszard. “Apocalypse of Abraham.” In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth, 2 vols, 1:681–705. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1983.

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 — Primary Sources

ID = [2646]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1983-01-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Kulik, Alexander. “Apocalypse of Abraham.” In Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture, 3 vols., edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel and Lawrence H. Schiffman, 2:1453–1481. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 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 — Primary Sources

ID = [2617]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Robinson, Stephen E. “The Apocalypse of Adam.” BYU Studies Quarterly 17, no. 2 (1977): 131-54.
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In most forms of Gnosticism secret oral tradition is often associated with accounts of the creation of the world, the experiences of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and the fall of man. It is usually in this creation setting or in a temple or on a mountaintop that Gnosticism places the revelation of the esoteric mysteries and the knowledge needed to thwart the archontic powers and return to God.
Gnosticism is primarily concerned with the questions, Who am I? Where am I from? and What is my destiny? That the answers to these questions are often associated with the creation, the Garden, and the fall of man is probably due to the Gnostic presupposition that the end of all things is to be found in their beginning. Of those documents which manifest this concern, the Nag Hammadi Apocalypse of Adam is perhaps the prime example.

Keywords: Adam (Prophet); Apocalypse of Adam; Eve; Garden of Eden; Gnosticism; Nag Hammadi Library

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]

ID = [4682]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1977-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,byu-studies,moses,old-test  Size: 50008  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Pratt, Parley P. “The Apocryphal Book of Enoch.” The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 1, no. 3, July 1840, 61—63.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2641]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1840-07-01  Collections:  millennial-star,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Griggs, C. Wilfred, ed. Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1986.
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The Lord has told us that many things in the Apocrypha are true and many false. The fascination that apocryphal writings generally hold for Latter-day Saints was recognized in a 1983 BYU symposium on this topic addressed by fifteen scholars representing a wide range of expertise. Those addresses are collected in this book.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2473]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 14  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Jackson, Kent P. “The Appearance of Moroni to Joseph Smith.” In The Pearl of Great Price, Studies in Scripture, Volume 2, ed. Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson, 339–66. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985.

Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Old Testament Topics > Restoration and Joseph Smith

ID = [67036]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1985-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 11:05:41

Jackson, Kent P. “An Appreciation.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 143–144.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [4712]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 3972  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Blumell, Lincoln H., Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges, eds. Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World. Proceedings of the 2013 BYU Church History Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.
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The 2013 BYU Church History Symposium This volume is a collection of essays by prominent LDS scholars–including keynote speakers Richard Bushman and David Holland–that discuss the interest in the ancient world shared by Joseph Smith and the early Latter-day Saints. Topics include Joseph Smith’s fascination with the ancient Americas, his interaction with the Bible, his study of Hebrew and Greek, his reading of Jewish and Christian apocryphal writings, and his work with the Book of Abraham in the context of nineteenth-century Egyptology. Together, these essays demonstrate that Joseph Smith’s interests in antiquity played an important role in his prophetic development as he sought to recover ancient scripture, restore the ancient Church, and bring the Latter-day Saints into fellowship with the sacred past. ISBN 978‐0‐8425‐2966‐2

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

ID = [2439]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,moses,rsc-books,rsc-church-history,rsc-video  Size:   Children: 17  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Townsend, Colby J. “Appropriation and Adaptation of J Material in the Book of Mormon.” Thesis for Honors Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah, 2016.
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This study explores the influence of the King James Bible (KJV) on the Book of Mormon (BM) by examining how the BM appropriates and adapts the text of the J source of the Pentateuch-a narrative strand from Genesis to Deuteronomy-and weaves phrases, ideas, motifs, and characters into the text. I identify the full range of influence of the J source of the Pentateuch on the text of the BM in Part II, and then analyze the use of Gen. 2-4 in its own literary context, in ancient sources, and finally in the BM. Through close reading and analysis the study highlights the gaps between the meaning of Gen. 2-4 in its own literary context and the way that the BM interprets its themes and overall message. The BM employs a thoroughly 19th century American- Christian worldview in both its use of the J source and its interpretation of that important text. This study has important implications for BM studies broadly and for historical-critical studies of the BM in particular. Moving forward, BM studies will need to grapple with the heavy influence that the KJV had on the composition of the BM. Past studies have identified limited influence of the KJV on the text for several reasons, but whatever the reasons it is clear that there are specific ways to move the field forward. Studies have focused on the block quotations of Isaiah in the BM, and some have explored the use of Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi and other portions of the text. Unfortunately, there are very few studies that have attempted to broaden the scope and look at the influen ce of a larger section of the KJV and its more subtle uses throughout the entire BM It is my hope that this study can be a stepping-stone of sorts for future work. I have looked specifically at how the BM uses parts of Genesis through Deuteronomy, but this leaves the door open to exploring the influence of any and all of the other parts of the KJV and their influence on the text of the BM.

Keywords: 2 Nephi; 3 Nephi; Documentary Hypothesis; Intertextuality; Isaiah; King James Bible; Sermon on the Mount; Source Criticism; Textual Criticism

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2690]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2016-05-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size: 451049  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

al-Tha’labi, Abu Ishaq Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim. ‘Ara’is Al-Majalis Fi Qisas Al-Anbiya’ or “Lives of the Prophets”. Translated by William M. Brinner. Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Volume 24. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2002.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2425]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Riley, Jonathon. “Archaism or Translation Technique?: Hebraisms in the Book of Moses.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “Hebraisms in the Book of Moses: Laying Groundwork and Finding a Way Forward” (2021)

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ID = [4665]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Lindsay, Jeff. “‘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 Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 179–232.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2703]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size: 134437  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah.” In Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference ‘The Temple on Mount Zion,’ 22 September 2012, edited by William J. Hamblin and David Rolph Seely. Temple on Mount Zion Series 2, 25–66. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.

See also:
“The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah” (2012)
“Jeffrey Bradshaw on “The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah”” (2012)
“The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2722]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,moses  Size: 95096  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44 (2021): 93-136.
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Abstract: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw compares Moses’ tabernacle and Noah’s ark, and then identifies the story of Noah as a temple related drama, drawing of temple mysticism and symbols. After examining structural similarities between ark and tabernacle and bringing into the discussion further information about the Mesopotamian flood story, he shows how Noah’s ark is a beginning of a new creation, pointing out the central point of Day One in the Noah story. When Noah leaves the ark, they find themselves in a garden, not unlike the Garden of Eden in the way the Bible speaks about it. A covenant is established in signs and tokens. Noah is the new Adam. This is then followed by a fall/Judgement scene story, even though it is Ham who is judged, not Noah. In accordance with mostly non-Mormon sources quoted, Bradshaw points out how Noah was not in “his” tent, but in the tent of the Shekhina, the presence of God, how being drunk was seen by the ancients as a synonym to “being caught up in a vision of God,” and how his “nakedness” was rather referring to garments God had made for Adam and Eve.
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.
See Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah,” in Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 22 September 2012, ed. William J. Hamblin and David Rolph Seely (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 25–66. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/temple-insights/.].

See also:
“Jeffrey Bradshaw on “The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah”” (2012)
“The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah” (2014)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [3416]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 64300  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:41

Finkel, Irving L. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. London, England: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2466]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Himmelfarb, Martha. Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2481]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1993-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Bokovoy, David E. Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy. Contemporary Studies in Scripture. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2014.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2441]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Before Adam.” In Old Testament and Related Studies, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 1, edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton, 49—85. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1986.
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Originally presented as a talk given on 1 April 1980 at Brigham Young University.
A controversial examination of evolution and the Latter-day Saint view on creation and the various roles of Adam.

See also: “Before Adam” (1980)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Adam and Eve [see also Fall]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses
Old Testament Topics > Creation
Old Testament Topics > Science and Religion
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Science > Evolution, Origin of Humankind

ID = [1951]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  moses,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:30

Jackson, Kent P. “Behold I.” BYU Studies Quarterly 44, no. 2 (2005): 169-75.
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On two occasions while he worked on his New Translation of Genesis in 1830, the Prophet Joseph Smith dictated to his scribe Oliver Cowdery a word combination that in English is awkward and umgrammatical, though in the Hebrew it is not: “Behold I.” The first occurrence reads, “Behold I am the Lord God Almighty.” The second reads, “Behold I send me.” Both passages are in the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price, but “Behold I” is not found in either of those passages today because, after the time of Joseph Smith, each was edited out of the text . .

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ID = [4672]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  byu-studies,moses  Size: 14757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Sears, Joshua M. “‘Behold These Thy Brethren!’: Deeply Seeing All of Our Brothers and Sisters.” In Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament, edited by Avram R. Shannon, Gaye Strathearn, George A. Pierce and Joshua M. Sears, 101–23. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [4487]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Matthews, Robert J. “Beyond the Biblical Account: Adam, Enoch, Noah, Melchizedek, Abraham, and Moses in Latter-day Revelation.” In A Witness of Jesus Christ: The 18th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Richard D. Draper, 134–54. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1990.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation
Old Testament Topics > Restoration and Joseph Smith

ID = [67097]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1990-01-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 11:05:42

Kugel, James L. The Bible As It Was. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2488]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Shannon, Avram R. “The Bible Before and After: Interpretation and Translation in Antiquity and the Book of Moses.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “The Bible Before and After: Interpretation and Translation in Antiquity and the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [4661]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Shannon, Avram R. “The Bible Before and After: Interpretation and Translation in Antiquity and the Book of Moses.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 257–92. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “The Bible Before and After: Interpretation and Translation in Antiquity and the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [4641]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Matthews, Robert J. ‘A Bible! A Bible!’: How Latter-day Revelation Helps Us Understand the Scriptures and the Savior. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1990.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

ID = [2500]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1990-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Matthews, Robert J. ‘‘A Bible! A Bible!’’: How Latter-day Revelation Helps Us Understand the Scriptures and the Savior. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1990.

ID = [4606]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1990-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Frederick, Nicholas J. The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2468]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Malan, Solomon Caesar, ed. The Book of Adam and Eve: Also Called The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan: A Book of the Early Eastern Church. Translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes from the Kufale, Talmud, Midrashim, and Other Eastern Works. London, England: Williams and Norgate, 1882. Reprint, San Diego, CA: The Book Tree, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

ID = [2493]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Robinson, Stephen E. “The Book of Adam in Judaism and Early Christianity.” In The Man Adam, edited by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, 131–150. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1990.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Adam and Eve [see also Fall]
Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2645]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1990-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Nibley, Hugh W. “The Book of Enoch as a Theodicy.” in Enoch the Prophet, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 2. 66–88.

See also: “The Book of Enoch as a Theodicy” (1986)

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1189]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1974-01-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Townsend, Colby J. [Ben Tov, Yakov, pseud.]. “The Book of Enoch, the Book of Moses, and the Question of Availability.” In Faith-Promoting Rumor. Originally published at https://faithpromotingrumor.com/2017/09/24/the-book-of-enoch-the-book-of-moses-and-the-question-of-availability/.
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Originally posted at https://faithpromotingrumor.com/2017/09/24/the-book-of-enoch-the-book-of-moses-and-the-question-of-availability/. Note that this blog post has since been removed without explanation, but was not disavowed by the author and was originally archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20181217192041/https://faithpromotingrumor.com/2017/09/24/the-book-of-enoch-thebook-of-moses-and-the-question-of-availability/ (accessed November 22, 2018). It seems that the archive.org version has now been removed, but the original article can now be found at: https://archive.interpreterfoundation.org/Ben-Tov-Availability-of-1-Enoch-Cirillo-error-The-Book-of-Enoch-the-Book-of-Moses-and-the-Question-of-Availability-FAITH-PROMOTING-RUMOR.pdf.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2569]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-09-24  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Stuckenbruck, Loren T. “The Book of Enoch: Its Reception in Second Temple Jewish and in Christian Tradition.” Early Christianity 4, no. 1 (2013): 7–40.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2653]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Evans, Craig A., Joel N. Lohr, and David L. Petersen, eds. The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, Formation and interpretation of Old Testament Literature 152, ed. Christl M. Maier, Craig A. Evans and Peter W. Flint. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2462]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Stuckenbruck, Loren T. “The Book of Giants among the Dead Sea Scrolls: Considerations of Method and a New Proposal on the Reconstruction of 4q530.” In Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Enrico Morano. Wissenschlaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 360, ed. Jörg Frey, 129–141. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2652]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Stuckenbruck, Loren T. The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 1997.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2542]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Kósa, Gåbor. “The Book of Giants tradition in the Chinese Manichaica.” In Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Enrico Morano. Wissenschlaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 360, ed. Jörg Frey, 145-86. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [4479]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

VanderKam, James C. The Book of Jubilees. Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, edited by Michael A. Knibb. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Bialik, Hayim Nahman, and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, eds. The Book of Legends (Sefer Ha-Aggadah): Legends from the Talmud and Midrash. Translated by William G. Braude. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1992.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Matthews, Robert J. “The Book of Moses.” In A Bible! A Bible!, edited by Robert J. Matthews, 100–114. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1990.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Taylor, Bruce T. “Book of Moses.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 1:216. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

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Matthews, Robert J. “Book of Moses.” In Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint Church History, edited by Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon and Richard O. Cowan, 121–22. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2000.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Matthews, Robert J. “Book of Moses.” In Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint Church History, edited by Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon and Richard O. Cowan, 121–22. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2000.

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Nelson, Glen. “The Book of Moses.” BYU Studies Quarterly 50, no. 4 (2011): 174.

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Jackson, Kent P. “‘Book of Moses,’ 71–73; ‘Book of Moses Manuscripts,’ 78; ‘Cain,’ 84; ‘Canaan, People Of,’ 85; ‘Curse, Cursed, Cursing,’ 99–100; ‘Inspired Version,’ 166; ‘Intelligences,’ 167; ‘Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible,’ 187–188; ‘Like Unto God/like Unto the Son of Man,’ 199; ’Meridian of Time,’ 207; ‘One Flesh,’ 227; ‘Patriarchs, Ages Of,’ 233; ‘Pearl of Great Price: An Overview and Introduction,’ 1–5; ‘Pearl of Great Price, Historical Development Of,’ 234–135; ‘Perdition,’ 237; ‘Satan,’ 258–259.” In Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, edited by Dennis L. Largey. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2017.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

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Givens, Terryl L. “The Book of Moses as a Pre–Augustinian Text: A New Look at the Pelagian Crisis.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 293–314. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “Mortality Reconsidered: The Book of Moses as a Pre-Augustinian Text” (2020)

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The Book of Moses as a Temple Text.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 421–68. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

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Carmack, Stanford A. “Book of Moses English: A Comparison of Grammatical Usage Found in Old Testament Revision 1.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “The Original English of the Book of Moses and What It Indicates about the Book’s Authorship” (2021)

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #1: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission (Moses 6:26–36) — Introduction.” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 02, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #2: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission — The Opening of Enoch’s Mouth and Eyes (Moses 6:31–32, 35).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 09, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #3: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission — Enoch As a Lad (Moses 6:31).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 16, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #4: Enoch’s Prophetic Commission — Enoch’s Power Over the Elements and His Divine Protection (Moses 6:32, 34).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 23, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #5: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Were Ancient Enoch Manuscripts the Inspiration for Moses 6–7? (Moses 6–7).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 30, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #6: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Enoch and the Other ‘Wild Man’ (Moses 6:38).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 06, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #7: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Could Joseph Smith Have Borrowed ‘Mahijah/Mahujah’ from the Book of Giants? (Moses 6:40).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 13, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #8: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Mahijah and Mahaway Interrogate Enoch (Moses 6:40).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 20, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #9: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Secret Works, Oaths, and Murders (Moses 6:15).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 27, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #10: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Enoch Reads from a Book of Remembrance (Moses 6:46–47).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 04, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #11: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Enoch’s Call Raises the Possibility of Repentance (Moses 6:47, 50–68).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 11, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #12: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — The Defeat of the Gibborim and the Roar of the Wild Beasts (Moses 7:13).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 18, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #13: Enoch’s Preaching Mission — Imprisonment of the Gibborim (Moses 7:38).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 25, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #14: The Teachings of Enoch — Enoch as a Teacher (Moses 6:51–68).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 01, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #15: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘The Son of Man, Even Jesus Christ, a Righteous Judge’ (Moses 6:57).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 08, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #16: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘By Water, and Blood, and the Spirit’ (Moses 6:58–60).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 15, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #17: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘By the Water Ye Keep the Commandment’ (Moses 6:60, 64).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 22, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #18: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘Out of the Waters of Judah’ (1 Nephi 20:1; JST Genesis 17:3–7).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 29, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #19: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘By the Spirit Ye Are Justified’ (Moses 6:60, 63, 65–66).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 05, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #20: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’ (Moses 6:60).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 12, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Essay #21: The Teachings of Enoch — ‘Thus May All Become My Sons’ (Moses 6:59, 66–68).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 19, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #22: Enoch the Prophet and Seer — Enoch’s Transfiguration (Moses 7:1–3).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 26, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #23: Enoch the Prophet and Seer — Enoch’s Prophecy of the Tribes (Moses 7:5–11, 22).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 03, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #24: Enoch, the Prophet and Seer: The End of the Wicked and the Beginnings of Zion (Moses 7:12–18).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 10, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #25: Enoch’s Grand Vision: A Chorus of Weeping (Moses 7:18–49).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 17, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #26: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Complaining Voice of the Earth (Moses 7:48–49, 54, 61, 64).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 24, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #27: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping Voice of the Heavens (Moses 7:28–29, 40, 42–43).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 31, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Jacob A. Rennaker, and David J. Larsen. “Essay #28: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Weeping of Enoch (Moses 7:28–43).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. November 07, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #29: Enoch’s Grand Vision: The Earth Shall Rest (Moses 7:60–69).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. November 14, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #30: Enoch’s Grand Vision: God Receives Zion unto Himself (Moses 7:18–19, 68–69).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. November 21, 2020.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #31: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Heavenly Ascent and Ritual Ascent (Moses 1).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. November 28, 2020.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #32: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Two-Part Pattern of Heavenly and Ritual Ascent (Moses 1).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. December 05, 2020.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #33: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses 1 as a ‘Missing’ Prologue to Genesis (Moses 1).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. December 12, 2020.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #34: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses in the Spirit World (Moses 1:1–8).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. December 19, 2020.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #35: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Falls to the Earth (Moses 1:9-11).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. December 26, 2020.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #36: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Defeats Satan (Moses 1:12–23).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. January 02, 2021.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #37: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Ascends to Heaven (Moses 1:24).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. January 09, 2021.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #38: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Passes Through the Heavenly Veil (Moses 1:25–27).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. January 16, 2021.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #39: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Names of Moses as ‘Keywords’ (Moses 1:25).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. January 23, 2021.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #40: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses’ Vision at the Veil (Moses 1:27–30).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. January 30, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Essay #41: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses in the Presence of God (Moses 1:31, chapters 2-4).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. February 06, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, Matthew L. Bowen, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #42: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: ‘The Words of God’ (Moses 1:1–7, 35, 40–42).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. February 13, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, Matthew L. Bowen, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #43: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize (Moses 1:25-26).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. February 20, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Mark J. Johnson. “Essay #44: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Hebrew Literary Features of Moses 1 (Moses 1).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. February 27, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Mark J. Johnson. “Essay #45: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Chiasmus in Moses 1 (Moses 1).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. March 06, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #46: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): The Days of Creation and Temple Architecture (Moses 2:1-27).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. March 13, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 2 — Creation

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #47: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): The Creation of Light and the Heavenly Host (Moses 2:3-5).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. March 20, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, Matthew L. Bowen, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #48: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): ‘This I Did By the Word of My Power’ (Moses 2:5).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. March 28, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #49: Let Us Make Man in Our Image, After Our Likeness (Moses 2:26).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. April 03, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #50: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): ‘Male and Female Created I Them’ (Moses 2:27).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. April 10, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #51: Moses Witnesses the Creation (Moses 2): Science and the Creation of Man (Moses 2:26–27).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. April 17, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #52: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Seventh Day (Moses 3:1–3).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. April 24, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #53: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): Is the transition between Moses 2 and 3 a clumsy stitch or a skillful shift? (Moses 3:4–5).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 01, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #54: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): Spiritual Creation (Moses 3:5–7).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 08, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #55: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Garden of Eden as a Model for the Temple in Israel and Old Babylon (Moses 3:8–15).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 15, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #56: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Naming of Animals, Angels, Adam, and Eve (Moses 3:8–15).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 22, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #57: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): God Instructs Adam and Eve (Moses 3:15–17).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 29, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #58: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Symbolism of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life (Moses 3:9).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 05, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #59: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): Satan’s Original Glory and the Symbols of Kingship (Moses 4:1–4).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 12, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #60: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The Willing and Unwilling Sons in the Council in Heaven (Moses 4:1-4).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 19, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #61: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The Tree in the Sacred Center of the Garden of Eden (Moses 3:9).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. June 26, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #62: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): What Was the Nature of Satan’s Premortal Proposal? (Moses 4:1–4).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 03, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #63: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The False and the True ‘Keeper of the Gate’ (Moses 4:5–12).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 10, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #64: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The False Apron and the Tree of Death and Rebirth (Moses 4:13).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 17, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #65: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): A Curse for the Serpent (Moses 4:14–21).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 24, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #66: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The Challenges and Blessings of Celestial Marriage (Moses 4:22–26).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. July 31, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #67: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): Was Eve Beguiled? (Moses 4:5–12).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 07, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #68: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The Nakedness and Clothing of Adam and Eve (Moses 3:25, 4:13–17, 27).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 14, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #69: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): ‘Stand Ye in Holy Places, and Be Not Moved’ (Moses 4:29–31).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 21, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #70: Moses Witnesses the Fall (Moses 4): The ‘Temple Work’ of Adam and Eve (Moses 4:23–25, 31).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. August 28, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #71: The Two Ways (Moses 5): The Prayer of Adam and Eve (Moses 5:4).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 04, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #72: The Two Ways (Moses 5): Adam, Eve, and the New and Everlasting Covenant (Moses 5:4–6).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 11, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #73: The Two Ways (Moses 5): The Five Celestial Laws (Moses, chapters 5–8).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 18, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #74: The Family of Adam and Eve (Moses 6:1–12).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. September 25, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #75: Noah (Moses 8): The Sons of God and the Sons of Men (Moses 8:1-21).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 02, 2021.

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #76: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah’s Ark Designed as a Floating Temple? (Moses 8:22–30; Genesis 6:5–22; chapters 7–8).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 09, 2021.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Essay #77: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah Drunk or in a Vision? (Genesis 9).” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. October 16, 2021.

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Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah

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Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Book of Moses FAQ.” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 09, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 1 — Article Preview: Did God or Enoch weep?” The Interpreter Foundation, August 27, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 2 — Article Preview: Were the Names ‘Mahijah’ and ‘Mahujah’ Inspired by Adam Clarke’s Commentary?” The Interpreter Foundation, September 3, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 3: Was the Book of Moses Simply an Unplanned Afterthought to Moses 1? A response to Thomas A. Wayment. ‘Intertextuality and the Purpose of Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible.’” The Interpreter Foundation, September 10, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Seely, David Rolph. “The Book of Moses: Exploring the World IN the Text.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “The Book of Moses: Exploring the World OF the Text” (2021)

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Seely, David Rolph. “The Book of Moses: Exploring the World OF the Text.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 597–630. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “The Book of Moses: Exploring the World IN the Text” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Schade, Aaron P., and Matthew L. Bowen. The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2021.
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The Book of Moses is canonized scripture spanning the epochs of Creation, Adam and Eve, Enoch, and Noah. Its content was revealed anciently by God to Moses and re-revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith in modern times. This book explores the origins and development of the Book of Moses, its ancient nuances, the linguistic features of its revelations, and how its sweeping visions and rich doctrines inspired and guided Joseph Smith and the early members of what would become The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in their pursuit of Zion.

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Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Book of the Bee. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1886.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

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Budge, E. A. Wallis, ed. The Book of the Cave of Treasures. London, England: The Religious Tract Society, 1927. Reprint, New York City, NY: Cosimo Classics, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

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Henning, W. B. “The Book of the Giants.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 11, no. 1 (1943): 52–74.

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Holyoak, Trevor. “Book Review: The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture.” On FAIR, https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org. December 19, 2019.

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “‘The Book That Answers All the Questions’: Hugh Nibley and the Pearl of Great Price.” In Hugh Nibley Observed Introductory Blog Series, by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR. 22 April 2021.
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This is the fourth of eight weekly blog posts published in honor of the life and work of Hugh Nibley.
An examination of Nibley’s work with the Book of Abraham.

See also:
“A Conversation about Hugh Nibley with Stephen T. Whitlock” (2021)
“What Did Enoch Scholar Matthew Black Say To Hugh Nibley about the Book of Moses Enoch Account?” (2021)

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses

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Bokovoy, David E. “‘The Book Which Thou Shalt Write’: The Book of Moses as Prophetic Midrash.” In The Expanded Canon: Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts, edited by Blaire G. Van Dyke, Brian D. Birch, and Boyd J. Petersen, 121–142. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2018.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

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Milik, Józef Tadeusz, and Matthew Black, eds. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments from Qumran Cave 4. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1976.
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The Enoch Scroll of the texts from Qumran Library Cave 4 has provided parts in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery between 1947 and 1956. Contents: Aramaic Book of Enoch, Astronomical Book, Book of Watchers, Book of Dreams, Book of Giants, Enochic Writings. NOTE: The Book of Enoch w/ Aramaic fragments from Milik, see The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition, Florentino García Martínez, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, 1999

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Reynolds, Noel B. “The Brass Plates Version of Genesis.” In By Study and Also By Faith, Volume 2. Edited by John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks, 1990, pp. 136-173.
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This second of two volumes of essays honoring Hugh Nibley includes scholarly papers based on what the authors have learned from Nibley. Nearly every major subject that Dr. Nibley has encompassed in his vast learning and scholarly production is represented here by at least one article. Topics include the sacrament covenant in Third Nephi, the Lamanite view of Book of Mormon history, external evidences of the Book of Mormon, proper names in the Book of Mormon, the brass plates version of Genesis, the composition of Lehi’s family, ancient burials of metal documents in stone boxes, repentance as rethinking, Mormon history’s encounter with secular modernity, and Judaism in the 20th century.
Are there indirect evidences of distinctive contents of the brass plates? Can we learn anything about the plates and their contents through an examination of indirect textual evidence in the Book of Mormon?

See also: “The Brass Plates Version of Genesis” (2020)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Texts
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Bible > Old Testament > Books > Genesis
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses

ID = [2357]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1990-01-02  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Reynolds, Noel B. “The Brass Plates Version of Genesis.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 34 (2020): 63-96.
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Abstract: The Book of Mormon peoples repeatedly indicated that they were descendants of Joseph, the son of Jacob who was sold into Egypt by his brothers. The plates of brass that they took with them from Jerusalem c. 600 bce provided them with a version of many Old Testament books and others not included in our Hebrew Bible. Sometime after publishing his translation of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith undertook an inspired revision of the Bible. The opening chapters of his version of Genesis contain a lot of material not included in the Hebrew Bible. But intriguingly, distinctive phraseology in those chapters, as now published in Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses, also show up in the Book of Mormon text. This paper presents a systematic examination of those repeated phrases and finds strong evidence for the conclusion that the version of Genesis used by the Nephite prophets must have been closely similar to Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses.
[Editor’s Note: This paper appeared first in the 1990 festschrift published to honor Hugh W. Nibley.
It is reprinted here as a convenience for current scholars who are interested in intertextual issues regarding the Book of Mormon. It should be noted that Interpreter has published another paper that picks up this same insight and develops considerable additional evidence supporting the conclusions of the original paper.
This reprint uses footnotes instead of endnotes, and there are two more footnotes in this reprint than there are endnotes in the original paper.].

See also: “The Brass Plates Version of Genesis” (1990)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis
Book of Mormon Topics > Ancient Texts > Brass Plates

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Matthew L. Bowen. “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 24 (2017): 123-316.
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[Editor’s Note: This article is an updated and extended version of a presentation given at the Third Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference: The Temple on Mount Zion, November 5, 2016, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. For a video version of the presentation, see https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference-videos/]
Abstract: In chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, Jesus described spiritual rebirth as consisting of two parts: being “born of water and of the spirit.”
To this requirement of being “born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit,” Moses 6:59–60 adds that one must “be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; … For … by the blood ye are sanctified.”
In this article, we will discuss the symbolism of water, spirit, and blood in scripture as they are actualized in the process of spiritual rebirth. We will highlight in particular the symbolic, salvific, interrelated, additive, retrospective, and anticipatory nature of these ordinances within the allusive and sometimes enigmatic descriptions of John 3 and Moses 6. Moses 6:51–68, with its dense infusion of temple themes, was revealed to the Prophet in December 1830, when the Church was in its infancy and more than a decade before the fulness of priesthood ordinances was made available to the Saints in Nauvoo. Our study of these chapters informs our closing perspective on the meaning of the sacrament, which is consistent with the recent re-emphasis of Church leaders that the “sacrament is a beautiful time to not just renew our baptismal covenants, but to commit to Him to renew all our covenants.”
We discuss the relationship of the sacrament to the shewbread of Israelite temples, and its anticipation of the heavenly feast that will be enjoyed by those who have been sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ.

See also:
““By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6” (2020)
““Veren kautta teidät pyhitetään”: Toimitusten ja hengellisen uudestisyntymisen vertauskuvallinen, pelastava, toisiinsa liittyvä, kertyvä, taaksepäin katsova ja ennakoiva luonne Johanneksen evankeliumin kolmannessa ja Mooseksen kirjan ensimmäisessä luvussa” (Finnish, 2017)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Matthew L. Bowen. “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6.” In Sacred Time, Sacred Space, and Sacred Meaning. Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 5 November 2016, Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, eds., 43–237. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Vol. 4. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2020.
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Abstract: In chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, Jesus described spiritual rebirth as consisting of two parts: being “born of water and of the spirit.” To this requirement of being “born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit,” Moses 6:59–60 adds that one must “be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; … For … by the blood ye are sanctified.”
In this article, we will discuss the symbolism of water, spirit, and blood in scripture as they are actualized in the process of spiritual rebirth. We will highlight in particular the symbolic, salvific, interrelated, additive, retrospective, and anticipatory nature of these ordinances within the allusive and sometimes enigmatic descriptions of John 3 and Moses 6. Moses 6:51–68, with its dense infusion of temple themes, was revealed to the Prophet in December 1830, when the Church was in its infancy and more than a decade before the fulness of priesthood ordinances was made available to the Saints in Nauvoo. Our study of these chapters informs our closing perspective on the meaning of the sacrament, which is consistent with the recent re-emphasis of Church leaders that the “sacrament is a beautiful time to not just renew our baptismal covenants, but to commit to Him to renew all our covenants.”
We discuss the relationship of the sacrament to the shewbread of Israelite temples, and its anticipation of the heavenly feast that will be enjoyed by those who have been sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ.

See also:
““By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6” (2017)
““Veren kautta teidät pyhitetään”: Toimitusten ja hengellisen uudestisyntymisen vertauskuvallinen, pelastava, toisiinsa liittyvä, kertyvä, taaksepäin katsova ja ennakoiva luonne Johanneksen evankeliumin kolmannessa ja Mooseksen kirjan ensimmäisessä luvussa” (Finnish, 2017)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘By the Word of My Power’: The Divine Word in the Book of Moses.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also: ““By The Word of My Power”: The Divine Word in the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 2 — Creation
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘By The Word of My Power’: The Divine Word in the Book of Moses.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 733–88. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “‘By the Word of My Power’: The Divine Word in the Book of Moses” (2020)

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BYU Religious Studies Center. “BYU Religious Education Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price: Atonement and Rebirth.” Originally aired: 6/14/2004.
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Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price — Atonement and Rebirth
Listen as religion faculty from Brigham Young University discuss the doctrines and themes of Atonement and rebirth that are found in the Pearl of Great Price.

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BYU Religious Studies Center. “BYU Religious Education Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price: Obedience and Sacrifice.” Originally aired: 4/18/2004.
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Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price — Obedience and Sacrifice/The Bicycle
Members of BYU\'s religion department discuss docrtines and themes of obedience and sacrifice found in the Pearl of Great Price.

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BYU Religious Studies Center. “BYU Religious Education Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price: The Ministry of Enoch.” Originally aired: 2/28/2004.
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Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price — The Ministry of Enoch
Brigham Young University professors discuss the ministry of ancient prophets.

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BYU Religious Studies Center. “BYU Religious Education Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price: The Pre-Mortal Life.” Originally aired: 4/4/2004.
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Discussions on the Pearl of Great Price — The Premortal Life/Canning/Boarding House
BYU religion faculty members discuss the doctrines found in the Pearl of Great Price about the premortal life.

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Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.
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The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel’s religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

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Dahle, Ryan. “Centralizing Scriptural Resources.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also: “Centralizing Scriptural Resources” (2021)

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Dahle, Ryan. “Centralizing Scriptural Resources.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 591–96. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “Centralizing Scriptural Resources” (2020)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

ID = [4647]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Harris, James R. “Changes in the Book of Moses and Their Implications upon a Concept of Revelation.” Brigham Young University Studies 8, no. 4 (1968): 361-382.
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This article will join the procession of articles dealing with the problem of scriptural change and its impact upon LDS theology. There will be concern to explain the nature of the material undergoing change, the historical, situations in which these changes occurred, and the impact of these facts upon a concept of revelation. As it is in the book of Moses that the most important changes have occurred, an explanation of how and why these changes were made in this text should satisfy the reader.

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ID = [4673]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1968-01-01  Collections:  byu-studies,moses  Size: 40975  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Sherry, Thomas E. “Changing Attitudes toward Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible.” In Plain and Precious Truths Restored: The Doctrinal and Historical Significance of the Joseph Smith Translation, edited by Robert L. Millet and Robert J. Matthews, 187–226. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1995.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible
Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)

ID = [2649]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Ouaknin, Marc-Alain, and Éric Smilévitch, eds. 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

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Parry, Donald W. “The Cherubim, the Flaming Sword, the Path, and the Tree of Life.” In The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity, edited by John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry, 1–24. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden

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LeFevre, David A. “Christology in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Gospels.” In “Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God”: The Person and Work of Jesus in the New Testament (The 47th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium), edited by Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell and Tyler J. Griffin, 362–90. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2018.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

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Anderson, Lavina Fielding. “Church Publishes First LDS Edition of the Bible.” Ensign, October 1979, 9-18.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible

ID = [2564]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1979-10-01  Collections:  ensign,moses  Size: 37183  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P. “The Coming Forth of the King James Bible.” In The King James Bible and the Restoration, edited by Kent P. Jackson, 43–60. Provo, UT and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book and , 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

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Ri, Andreas Su-Min. Commentaire de la Caverne des Trésors: Étude sur l’Histoire du Texte et de ses Sources. Supplementary Volume 103. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 581. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2000.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

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Barney, Kevin L. “A Commentary on Joseph Smith’s Revision of First Corinthians.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 57-105.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

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Clark, James R. “Commentary on the Pearl of Great Price.” BYU Studies Quarterly 7, no. 1 (1965): 83-84.

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ID = [4674]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1965-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 3032  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Hauglid, Brian M., and Ray L. Huntington. “A Community of Christ Perspective on the JST Research of Robert J. Matthews: An Interview with Ronald E. Romig.” The Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 5, no. 2 (2004): 49–55.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History
RSC Topics > T — Z > Tolerance

ID = [2593]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Hedges, Andrew H. “‘Compassion upon the Earth’: Man, Prophets, and Nature.” In Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment, edited by George B. Handley, Terry B. Ball, and Stephen L. Peck, 81–88. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2006.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

ID = [4475]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 31309  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Wayment, Thomas A., ed. The Complete Joseph Smith Translation of the Old Testament: A Side-by-Side Comparison with the King James Version. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2009.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

ID = [2555]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Baden, Joel S. The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2430]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Smith, Joseph F. “Concerning the Creation.” Improvement Era 7, no. 5 (Mar. 1904): 385–86.
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Argument as to when man was created, reconciling the apparent discrepancies in Genesis 1 and 2 and the Pearl of Great Price

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Creation

ID = [29853]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1904-03-01  Collections:  abraham,improvement-era,moses,old-test,smith-joseph-f.  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 10:12:43

Bruno, Cheryl L. “Congruence and Concatenation in Jewish Mystical Literature, American Freemasonry, and Mormon Enoch Writings.” Journal of Religion and Society 16 (2014): 1–19.
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The Biblical character Enoch is a central figure in early Jewish mystical literature, where his story is redolent with themes related to the concepts of transformation and communion with the Divine. This rich and mythic wisdom significantly influenced American Royal Arch Freemasonry, and through it, early Mormonism. This paper explores the shared aspects of these traditions: where they overlap, and specifically, where Mormonism may rely upon Freemasonry. The Enoch pseudepigrapha and their Masonic and Mormon iterations are presented as a series of related mystical traditions. Linked by common themes of theophany, grand assembly, and heavenly ascent, they are utilized in similar, yet innovative ways to impart spiritual truth to their followers.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2582]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 56274  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Hallo, William W., and K. Lawson Younger, eds. The Context of Scripture. 3 vols. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 1996–2002.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2476]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Jackson, Kent P. “The Cooperstown Bible.” New York History 95, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 243–270.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [2606]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-03-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Coptic Martyrdoms, etc., in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. London, England: The British Museum, 1914.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

ID = [2446]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1914-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?: Recent Updates on a Persistent Question.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 305-374.
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Abstract: In this article, we offer a general critique of scholarship that has argued for Joseph Smith’s reliance on 1 Enoch or other ancient pseudepigrapha for the Enoch chapters in the Book of Moses. Our findings highlight the continued difficulties of scholars to sustain such arguments credibly. Following this general critique, we describe the current state of research relating to what Salvatore Cirillo took to be the strongest similarity between Joseph Smith’s chapters on Enoch and the Qumran Book of Giants — namely the resemblance between the name Mahawai in the Book of Giants and Mahujah/Mahijah in Joseph Smith’s Enoch account. We conclude this section with summaries of conversations of Gordon C. Thomasson and Hugh Nibley with Book of Giants scholar Matthew Black about these names. Next, we explain why even late and seemingly derivative sources may provide valuable new evidence for the antiquity of Moses 6–7 or may corroborate details from previously known Enoch sources. By way of example, we summarize preliminary research that compares passages in Moses 6–7 to newly available ancient Enoch texts from lesser known sources. We conclude with a discussion of the significance of findings that situate Joseph Smith’s Enoch account in an ancient milieu. Additional work is underway to provide a systematic and detailed analysis of ancient literary affinities in Moses 6–7, including an effort sponsored by Book of Mormon Central in collaboration with The Interpreter Foundation.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [3570]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64360  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:42

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Creation, Fall, and the Story of Adam and Eve.” In In God’s Image and Likeness 1. Updated ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2014.
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The stories of the Grand Councils in Heaven, the Creation, the Fall, and the revelation of the Plan of Salvation to mankind are foundational to LDS doctrine. As it turns out, they are also the focus of a vast ancient literature by Jewish commentators, Islamic scholars, and early Christians, as well as the nexus of perennial controversies about science and religion.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

ID = [2676]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Goodman, Michael A. “The Creation: An Introduction to Our Relationship to God.” Religious Educator 8, no. 3 (2007): 15–29.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life

ID = [4727]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 37210  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Bowen, Matthew L. “‘Creator of the First Day’: The Glossing of Lord of Sabaoth in D&C 95:7.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 22 (2016): 51–77.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 2 — Creation

ID = [2699]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  d-c,moses  Size: 72802  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

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Orlov, Andrei A. Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Apocalypse of Abraham — Secondary Sources

ID = [2516]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Machiela, Daniel A. The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon [1QapGen]: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 79. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2009.
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The so-called Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) from Qumran Cave 1 has suffered from decades of neglect, due in large part to its poor state of preservation. As part of a resurgent scholarly interest in the Apocryphon, and its prominent position among the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls, this volume presents a fresh transcription, translation, and exstenive textual notes drawing on close study of the original manuscript, all available photographs, and previous publications. In addition, a detailed analysis of columns 13-15 and their relation to the oft-cited parallel in the Book of Jubilees reveals a number of ways in which the two works differ, thereby highlighting several distinctive features of the Genesis Apocryphon. The result is a reliable text edition and a fuller understanding of the message conveyed by this fragmentary but fascinating retelling of Genesis.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2491]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Abegg, Martin, Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich, eds. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible. New York City, NY: Harper, 1999.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2423]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Parry, Donald W., and Emanuel Tov, eds. The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader. 2nd edition, Volume 1. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2519]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Martinez, Florentino Garcia, and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, eds. The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. 2 vols. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1997-1998.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2496]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Parry, Donald W., and Stephen D. Ricks. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Questions and Responses for Latter-day Saints. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
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Since their initial discovery in 1947, the ancient scrolls found in caves near the Dead Sea have stirred public curiosity. For Latter-day Saints, whose scriptural tradition speaks of sacred records to come forth in the last days, the Dead Sea Scrolls naturally give rise to questions such as:
— Are there references to Christ or Christianity in the scrolls?
— Do the scrolls contain scripture missing from the Bible?
— Is the plan of salvation attested in the scrolls?
— Do the scrolls refer to Joseph Smith or other latter-day figures?
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Questions and Responses for Latter-day Saints succinctly deals with these and other questions on topics of particular interest to LDS readers. These topics are based on actual questions that Latter-day Saints have asked the authors as they have taught classes at Brigham Young University, shared their research at professional symposia, and spoken in other settings.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2522]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  farms-books,mi,moses,old-test  Size: 135296  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Harrell, Charles R. “The Development of the Doctrine of Preexistence, 1830-1844.” BYU Studies Quarterly 28, no. 2 (1988): 75-96.
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Perhaps no doctrine has had greater impact on Latter-day Saint theology than the doctrine of preexistence, or the belief in the existence of the human spirit before its mortal birth. Fundamental concepts such as the nature of man as an eternal being, his singular relationship as the offspring of Deity and concomitant brotherhood with all mankind, the talents and privileges with which he is born into the world, and his potential godhood are all inextricably connected to the doctrine of preexistence. This distinctive LDS doctrine was not immediately comprehended by the early Saints in the more fully developed form in which it is understood today.
Like many of the other teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, it was revealed line upon line and adapted to the Saints’ understanding. Moreover, there was a natural tendency to view initial teachings on preexistence in light of previously held beliefs until greater clarity was given to the doctrine. This study traces the early development of the doctrine by examining chronologically the revelations and recorded sermons and writings on preexistence by the Prophet Joseph Smith in light of contemporary commentary by his associates. Seeing how early Saints perceived preexistence enhances our own understanding of the doctrine and leads to a greater appreciation of our theological heritage.

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ID = [4684]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Did Moses Write the Book of Genesis? — Old Testament KnoWhy JBOTL03B.” In The Interpreter Foundation. January 11, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [4459]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-11  Collections:  bradshaw,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Widtsoe, John A. “Did the Flood Cover the Highest Mountains of the Earth?” In Evidences and Reconciliations: Aids to Faith in a Modern Day, edited by John A. Widtsoe. 2nd ed, 109-12. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1943.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2666]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1943-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “Die Apokalypse Abrahams: Ein antiker Zeuge für das Buch Mose (The Apocalypse of Abraham : Ancient Witness of the Book of Moses).” Invited lecture at the FAIR Germany Conference, Frankfurt, Germany. 28 March 2009.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Non-English Resources

ID = [4460]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2009-03-28  Collections:  abraham,bradshaw,moses,old-test  Size: 67242  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Orlov, Andrei A. 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: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Andrus, Hyrum L. Doctrinal Commentary on the Pearl of Great Price. Revised edition. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2003.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

ID = [2428]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Muhlestein, Kerry. “The Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Moses: An Outpouring of Revelations and the Beginning of Joseph Smith’s ‘New Translation’ of the Bible.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “The Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Moses: An Outpouring of Revelations and the Beginning of Joseph Smith’s “New Translation” of the Bible” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [4658]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  d-c,interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Muhlestein, Kerry. “The Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Moses: An Outpouring of Revelations and the Beginning of Joseph Smith’s ‘New Translation’ of the Bible.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 137–62. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “The Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Moses: An Outpouring of Revelations and the Beginning of Joseph Smith’s “New Translation” of the Bible” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [4638]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  d-c,interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Parker, Jared T. “The Doctrine of Christ in 2 Nephi 31–32 as an Approach to the Vision of the Tree of Life.” In: The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), eds. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2011. 161–178.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi
RSC Topics > A — C > Baptism
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > G — K > Holy Ghost

ID = [2633]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size: 46447  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Cassuto, Umberto. The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch. Translated by Israel Abrahams. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1961.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2450]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1961-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Cohen, H. Hirsch. The Drunkenness of Noah. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1974.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2454]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1974-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Древо познания как завеса храма (Святилища).” Russian translation of “The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, edited by David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Matthew J. Grey. The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (26 October, 2013), 49–65. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2013.
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One thing that has always perplexed readers of Genesis is the location of the two special trees within the Garden of Eden. Although scripture initially applies the phrase “in the midst” only to the tree of life (Genesis 2:9), the tree of knowledge is later said by Eve to be located there too (see Genesis 3:3). In the context of these verses, the Hebrew phrase corresponding to “in the midst” literally means “in the center.” How can both trees be in the center?

See also: “The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary” (2013)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Non-English Resources

ID = [6487]  Type = book article  Date = 2013-10-26  Collections:  bom,bradshaw,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 3/27/24 19:22:03

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Skousen, Royal. “The Earliest Textual Sources for Joseph Smith’s ‘New Translation’ of the King James Bible.” The FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): Article 13.
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Review of Scott H. Faulring, Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [521]  Status = Type = review  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  farms-review,moses  Size: 37848  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:20

Calabro, David M. “An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 47 (2021): 181-262.
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Abstract: This study argues that the Book of Moses was an early Christian text. The book’s language, literary genre, and references to its own production could fit with a date in the late first century ad. Further, the study argues that a possible ritual context of the book was a baptismal ritual, as suggested by the detailed description of Adam’s baptism in Moses 6. A comparison between the content of the Book of Moses and early Christian sources on baptism shows some close resemblances, which may suggest that the Book of Moses was read aloud, and perhaps portrayed as a ritual drama, on sacred space during a baptismal ritual.

See also:
“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” (2021)
“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4626]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64613  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Calabro, David M. “An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also:
“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” (2021)
“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4662]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Calabro, David M. “An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 505–90. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also:
“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” (2021)
“An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4646]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Nibley, Hugh W. “The Early Christian Prayer Circle.” Brigham Young University Studies 19, no. 1, (1978): 41–78.
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Reprinted in Mormonism and Early Christianity, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 4, 45–99. Also reprinted in LDS Views on Early Christianity and Apocrypha: Articles from BYU Studies, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Draws upon a host of sources and shows certain parallels between an early Christian form of prayer and that of the Latter-day Saint prayer circle.

See also:
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle” (1987)
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle” (2010)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [1096]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  byu-studies,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “The Early Christian Prayer Circle.” In Mormonism and Early Christianity, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 4, edited by Todd M. Compton and Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1987.
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Originally published as an article in BYU Studies in 1978.
Draws upon a host of sources and shows certain parallels between an early Christian form of prayer and that of the Latter-day Saint prayer circle.

See also:
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle” (1978)
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle” (2010)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [2001]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1987-01-02  Collections:  farms-jbms,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:31

Nibley, Hugh W. “The Early Christian Prayer Circle.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 2, (2010): 64-95.
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A practice that was eventually condemned by the church because of its Jewish affinities—being found, for example, in the Testaments of Abraham and Job and in the writings of Philo—the prayer circle has a long and complex history in Christian practice. This practice was considered one of the “ mysteries” and therefore was protected from all who weren’t initiated. For the initiated participants, this was a very sacred practice, which demanded unity between all those involved. The prayer circle, generally referred to as a “ dance,” often included hymns, prayers for the living and the dead, and gestures that would prepare the participants for heavenly visitations.

See also:
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle” (1978)
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle” (1987)
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle: Sidebar, Coptic Liturgical Text” (2010)
“The Early Christian Prayer Circle: Sidebar, Minutes of the Second Council of Nicaea in ad 787” (2010)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Calabro, David M. “Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead: Defining Sacred Space in the Late Antique Near East.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46 (2021): 77-100.
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Abstract: This paper addresses the early Christian transition from temple-based Judaism to the Constantinian basilica of the fourth century. David argues that some Christians of the second and early third centuries may have had places of worship that, while not monumental in scale, qualify typologically as temples and were understood as such. These sacred structures may have been used for the performance of baptisms for the dead, as suggested by Doctrine and Covenants 124. In support of this thesis, he takes as case studies the Christian places of worship at ancient Edessa and Dura Europos, based on a combination of textual sources and archaeological remains. David then briefly applies these findings to a question posed years ago in studies by Hugh Nibley and John Lundquist, “What Is a Temple?”
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the Latter-day Saint community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.
See David Calabro, “From temple to church: Defining sacred space in the Near East,” in The Temple: Past, Present, and Future. Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2021), page numbers forthcoming. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-past-present-and-future/.]Introduction.

See also: “Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead: Defining Sacred Space in the Late Antique Near East” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Calabro, David M. “Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead: Defining Sacred Space in the Late Antique Near East.” In The Temple: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Vol. 6. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021.
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Abstract: This paper addresses the early Christian transition from temple-based Judaism to the Constantinian basilica of the fourth century. David argues that some Christians of the second and early third centuries may have had places of worship that, while not monumental in scale, qualify typologically as temples and were understood as such. These sacred structures may have been used for the performance of baptisms for the dead, as suggested by Doctrine and Covenants 124. In support of this thesis, he takes as case studies the Christian places of worship at ancient Edessa and Dura Europos, based on a combination of textual sources and archaeological remains. David then briefly applies these findings to a question posed years ago in studies by Hugh Nibley and John Lundquist, “What Is a Temple?”
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the Latter-day Saint community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.
See David Calabro, “From temple to church: Defining sacred space in the Near East,” in The Temple: Past, Present, and Future. Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2021), page numbers forthcoming. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/the-temple-past-present-and-future/.]Introduction.

See also: “Early Christian Temples and Baptism for the Dead: Defining Sacred Space in the Late Antique Near East” (2021)

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Boccaccini, Gabriele, and John J. Collins, eds. The Early Enoch Literature. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

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Talmage, James E. “The Earth and Man.” In Science and Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth, and Man, edited by David H. Bailey, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, John H. Lewis, Gregory L. Smith and Michael L. Stark. Interpreter Science and Mormonism Symposia 1, 335–51. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016. Originally published in Deseret News, November 21, 1931, pp. 7-8.
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originally published in Deseret News, November 21, 1931, pp. 7-8

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Harper, Steven C. “Endowed with Power.” ReligiousEducator 5, no. 2 (2004): 83–99.

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RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Endowment
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances

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Eames, Rulon D., James H. Charlesworth, and Lewis R. Church. “Enoch.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 2:457. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
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Keywords: 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, 3 Enoch, Enoch (Prophet)

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Buchanan, Bryan. “Enoch and Noah on Steroids.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 81-85.
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Review of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen, In God’s Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014), 590 pp. (full color interior includes footnotes; endnotes; three excursus sections; annotated bibliography on Enoch and the Flood; comprehensive reference list; thumbnail index of one hundred and eleven illustrations and photographs; and indexes of scriptures referenced, modern prophets quoted, and topics discussed). $49.99 (hardcover).
Reprinted with the kind permission of the Association for Mormon Letters.

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Larsen, David J. “Enoch and the City of Zion: Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 1 (2014): 25-37.
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In this article, I will explore the notion of communal ascent to heaven in ancient Jewish and Christian literature and seek to answer the questions, Can an entire community ascend to heaven? and Do we see this theme in ancient texts, or is this a complete innovation on the part of Joseph Smith as he sought to unite his followers around an inspiring and unifying goal? To arrive at the answers to these questions, I will analyze a number of ancient Jewish and Christian religious texts that feature the ascent to heaven motif and suggest that not only did their authors envision an individual ascent, but they also imagined groups or communities raised up to the celestial realm.

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. Enoch and the Gathering of Zion: The Witness of Ancient Texts for Modern Scripture. Orem, Springville, and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, and Eborn Books, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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, ed. Enoch and the Temple. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
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This ebook contains three articles from a conference on Enoch and the temple that was cosponsored by BYU Studies in February 2013 at Utah State University and BYU. George Nickelsburg, an eminent biblical scholar, identifies much temple content in the book of 1 Enoch: Enoch’s commissioning and ascension into the heavenly sanctuary. David Larsen discusses ancient sources regarding a community ascending to heaven as a group. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw shows what ties together the stories about Adam, Eve, Enoch, and Noah in the Book of Moses. The answer, unexpectedly, has to do again with temple motifs, all of which culminate with Enoch in Moses 6–7. The original video presentations of these articles are also included. Finally, this ebook contains an article by Stephen D. Ricks discussing the prophetic commission of Enoch, which is a striking example of a “narrative” type of call (see Moses 6:23–36). This study considers the elements of the narrative call pattern; those elements of this form found in the prophetic commission of Enoch are examined and compared with the biblical narrative call passages. Contents “The Temple According to 1 Enoch” George W. E. Nickelsburg “Enoch and the City of Zion: Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?” David J. Larsen “The LDS Story of Enoch as the Culminating Episode of a Temple Text” Jeffrey M. Bradshaw “The Narrative Call Pattern in the Prophetic Commission of Enoch (Moses 6)” Stephen D. Ricks Video Presentations from the conference “Enoch and the Temple”

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Enoch the Prophet.” Lecture given 22 November 1975 for the Pearl of Great Price Symposium, at Brigham Young University.
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Reprinted in Enoch the Prophet, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 2.
Discusses the book of Enoch and its relationship with the Pearl of Great Price.

See also:
“Enoch the Prophet” (1976)
“Enoch the Prophet” (1986)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Old Testament Topics > Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1195]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1975-11-22  Collections:  moses,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Enoch the Prophet.” In Pearl of Great Price Symposium: A Centennial Presentation, 76–85. Provo, UT: BYU Publications, 1976.
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Reprinted in Enoch the Prophet, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 2.
Discusses the book of Enoch and its relationship with the Pearl of Great Price.

See also:
“Enoch the Prophet” (1975)
“Enoch the Prophet” (1986)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Old Testament Topics > Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

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Ludlow, Jared W. “‘Enoch Walked with God, and He Was Not’: Where Did Enoch Go After Genesis?” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also: ““Enoch Walked with God, and He Was Not”: Where Did Enoch Go after Genesis?” (2021)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Ludlow, Jared W. “‘Enoch Walked with God, and He Was Not’: Where Did Enoch Go after Genesis?” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 1001–40. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “‘Enoch Walked with God, and He Was Not’: Where Did Enoch Go After Genesis?” (2020)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Nickelsburg, George W. E. “Enoch, Levi, and Peter: Recipients of Revelation in Upper Galilee.” Journal of Biblical Literature 100, no. 4 (December 1981): 575–600.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel.” In In God’s Image and Likeness 2. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.
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One of the most prominent themes in the first eleven chapters of the Bible is a series of transgressions of boundaries that had been set up in the beginning to separate mankind from the dwelling place of God. This general thesis is useful as far as it goes. In the stories of the transgressions of Adam and Eve, of Cain, of Lamech, of the “sons of God” who married the “daughters of men,” and of the builders of the Tower of Babel, we cannot fail to observe the common thread of a God who places strict boundaries between the human and the divine. Surprisingly, however, a significant and opposite theme has been largely neglected by readers: namely, the fact that within some of these same chapters God is also portrayed as having sought to erase the divine-human boundary for a righteous few, drawing them into His very presence. The prime examples of this motif are, of course, Enoch and Noah, of whom it was explicitly said that they “walked with God.”

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

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Brown, S. Kent. “Enoch, the Book of Moses, and the Book of Giants: More Light on the 1977 Visit of Professor Matthew Black to BYU.” In Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR Blog Posts, May 17, 2021.
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A discussion of remarks given at Brigham Young University by Professor Matthew Black and his wife, Ethel.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Enoch

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Widtsoe, John A. “Enoch, Whom the Lord Took Unto Himself.” The Juvenile Instructor 36, no. 11 (1 June 1901): 342–346.

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Orlov, Andrei A. The Enoch-Metatron Tradition. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 107. Tübingen, Germany Mohr Siebeck, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2513]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

VanderKam, James C. Enoch: A Man for All Generations. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2549]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Parry, Donald W. “Eve’s Role as a ‘Help’ (‘ezer) Revisited.” In Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, edited by Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn and Shon D. Hopkin, 199–216. Orem and Provo, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2020.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

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Whiting, Michael F. “Evolution and the Gospel: Seeking Grandeur in This View of Life.” In Converging Paths to Truth: The Summerhays Lectures on Science and Religion, edited by Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 151–68. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses
RSC Topics > A — C > Creation

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Peck, Steven L. Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2015.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Norman, Keith E. “Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity.” BYU Studies Quarterly 17, no. 3 (1977): 291-318.
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Joseph Smith taught that the first principle of revealed religion is to know for a certainty the character of God, and his reaffirmation of Deity as the loving, personal Father of the scriptures stands in conspicuous contrast to the confusion and obscurity of traditional and modern theologies. Just as the orthodox doctrine of an incomprehensible God who creates ex nihilo is clearly odds with the prophetic proclamation in both the Old and New Testaments, by the same measure the Latter-day Saint conception of divine creation in terms of the organization of eternal man provides a remarkable commentary on Joseph Smith’s claim to be a prophet of the Living God and on his work in the restitution of all things.

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Barney, Kevin L. “Examining Six Key Concepts in Joseph Smith’s Understanding of Genesis 1:1.” BYU Studies Quarterly 39, no. 3 (2000): 107-124.
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Joseph Smith spent Sunday afternoon, April 7, 1844, in a grove behind the Nauvoo Temple. There he gave a funeral sermon, which lasted for over two hours, dedicated to a loyal friend named King Follett, who had been crushed by a bucket of rocks while repairing a well.1 Known today as the King Follett Discourse and widely believed to be the Prophet’s greatest sermon,2 this address was Joseph’s most cogent and forceful presentation of his Nauvoo doctrine on the nature of God, including the ideas of a plurality of Gods and the potential of man to become as God.3 Several times in the first part of the discourse, Joseph expressed his intention to “go back to the beginning” in searching out the nature of God, and a little before midway through the sermon, he undertook a commentary on the first few words of the Hebrew Bible in support of the speech’s doctrinal positions.

Keywords: Joseph; Jr.; King Follett Discourse; Language - Hebrew; Smith

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Helyer, Larry R. Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2002.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

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Woodworth, Jed L. “Extra-Biblical Enoch Texts in Early American Culture.” In Archive of Restoration Culture: Summer Fellows’ Papers 1997–1999, edited by Richard Lyman Bushman, 185–193. Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, 2000.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2668]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2000-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Times and Seasons. “Extract From the Prophecy of Enoch.” Times and Seasons Vol. 2, no. 1: November 1, 1840.

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Roper, Matthew P., and Kirk Magleby. “Time Vindicates the Prophet.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.

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Eyring, Henry. The Faith of a Scientist. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1967.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

ID = [4471]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1967-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2527]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. The First Days and the Last Days: A Verse-By-Verse Commentary on the Book of Moses and JS—Matthew in Light of the Temple. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021.
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Like a perfectly formed pair of bookends, the Book of Moses and Joseph Smith’s inspired translation of Matthew 24 (JS—Matthew) bracket within their pages the essential survival guide for our times. In the “first days,” Adam and Eve looked forward to Christ’s coming; in the “last days,” we look backward to Christ’s mortal life and forward to His return in glory. In the beginning, Enoch learned the ordinances and covenants that would allow his people to dwell in the presence of God; to the end, we will treasure the same ordinances and covenants. Through faith in Jesus Christ and faithfulness to these covenants we hope to stand someday in the holy place with perfect assurance.This comprehensive phrase-by-phrase commentary on the Book of Moses and JS—Matthew is the result of decades of loving study of their wonderful words. In its pages you will find both everyday guidance and the answers to life’s most important questions. Importantly, this book is a witness that the doctrines and ordinances of the temple are deeply woven into the fabric of these supernal works of scripture, containing persuasive evidence of their authenticity and antiquity. Scores of carefully selected images, coupled with detailed explanations, enrich the commentary. Rather than simply illustrating the text, they seek to enter into dialogue with it.

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Miller, Adam S., ed. Fleeing the Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3. Maxwell Institute Publications 37. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2017.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Foreword.” In Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture, edited by Matthew L. Bowen, ix-xliv. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2018.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2680]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,moses  Size: 82491  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Carr, David M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2449]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Judd, Daniel K. “The Fortunate Fall of Adam and Eve.” In No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues, ed. Robert L. Millet, 297–328. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011.
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Some believe Adam and Eve’s partaking of the fruit of “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:9) to be the cause of all that is evil and tragic in the world today. Others believe our first parents merely to be mythical beings whose existence is only a metaphor used to explain mankind’s existence. The doctrines of the restored gospel concerning the historical reality of Adam and Eve and the doctrine of the Fall provide a wealth of understanding concerning the purposes of adversity and opposition and the vital need for the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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Nibley, Hugh W. “G-2 Report, Enuma Elish, The Babylonian Poem of the Creation.” 4 pp. s.s., n.d.
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A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.
“Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Texts > Enuma Elish
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 2

ID = [1823]  Status = Type = unpublished  Date = 1951-01-02  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:29

Parry, Donald W. “Garden of Eden: Prototype Sanctuary.” In Temples of the Ancient World, edited by Donald W. Parry, 126–151. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1994.
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The Garden of Eden pericope (Genesis 2-3) contains a number of powerful symbols that are related to and represent archetypal depictions of subsequent Israelite temple systems. In a cogent manner, the Garden of Eden, as it is referred to throughout the Bible, Pseudepigrapha, and rabbinic writings, served as the prototype, pattern, and/ or originator of subsequent Israelite temples, “a type of archetypal sanctuary.” The garden was not a sanctuary built of cedar or marble, for it is not necessary for a temple to possess an edifice or structure; but rather it was an area of sacred space made holy because God’s presence was found there. Mircea Eliade has stated that the Garden of Eden was the heavenly prototype of the temple, and the Book of Jubilees 3:19 adds that “the garden of Eden is the Holy of Holies, and the dwelling of the Lord.” This essay will examine these claims.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle

ID = [2634]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size: 41844  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Walton, John H. Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 2 — Creation

ID = [2553]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Hendel, Ronald S. “Genesis 1-11 and Its Mesopotamian Problem.” In Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity, edited by Erich S. Gruen, 23-36. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [4599]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Bandstra, Barry L. Genesis 1–11: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text. Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible, ed. W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Study Resources for the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Genesis

ID = [2431]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2008-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Wenham, Gordon J., ed. Genesis 1–15. Word Biblical Commentary 1: Nelson Reference and Electronic, 1987.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2559]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Anderson, Gary A. The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2426]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Neusner, Jacob, ed. Genesis Rabbah: The Judaic Commentary to the Book of Genesis, A New American Translation. 3 vols. Brown Judaic Studies 104, ed. Jacob Neusner. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1985.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2507]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1985-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bowen, Matthew L. “Getting Cain and Gain.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 15 (2015): 115-141.
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Abstract: The biblical etiology (story of origin) for the name “Cain” associates his name with the Hebrew verb qny/qnh, “to get,” “gain,” “acquire,” “create,” or “procreate” in a positive sense. A fuller form of this etiology, known to us indirectly through the Book of Mormon text and directly through the restored text of the Joseph Smith Translation, creates additional wordplay on “Cain” that associates his name with murder to “get gain.” This fuller narrative is thus also an etiology for organized evil—secret combinations “built up to get power and gain” (Ether 8:22–23; 11:15). The original etiology exerted a tremendous influence on Book of Mormon writers (e.g., Nephi, Jacob, Alma, Mormon, and Moroni) who frequently used allusions to this narrative and sometimes replicated the wordplay on “Cain” and “getting gain.” The fuller narrative seems to have exerted its greatest influence on Mormon and Moroni, who witnessed the destruction of their nation firsthand — destruction catalyzed by Cainitic secret combinations. Moroni, in particular, invokes the Cain etiology in describing the destruction of the Jaredites by secret combinations. The destruction of two nations by Cainitic secret combinations stand as two witnesses and a warning to latter-day Gentiles (and Israel) against building up these societies and allowing them to flourish.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Moroni
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

ID = [4246]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 63458  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:56

Frölich, Ida. “Giants and Demons.” In Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Enrico Morano. Wissenschlaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 360, ed. Jörg Frey, 97–114. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [4597]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Givens, Terryl L., and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life. Salt Lake City, UT: Ensign Peak, 2012.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2470]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Barker, Margaret. The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

ID = [2432]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Griffin, Tyler J., and Donald B. Anderson. “The Great Plan of Happiness: A Christ-Centered Visual Approach.” Religious Educator 18, no. 1 (2017): 12–31.
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The greatest concept we can study or teach is the plan of redemption—sometimes called the plan of salvation or the plan of happiness. The doctrines of the plan of redemption have more power to bring men to God than any other truth or concept. Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quickly recognize the following diagram.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Happiness
RSC Topics > G — K > Judgment
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation

ID = [4723]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 39999  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “A Harmony of the Creation Accounts.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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ID = [4754]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2017-08-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Orlov, Andrei A. 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: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Riley, Jonathon. “Hebraisms in the Book of Moses: Laying Groundwork and Finding a Way Forward.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 703–32. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “Archaism or Translation Technique?: Hebraisms in the Book of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4650]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-04  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Reeves, John C. Heralds of that Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 41, edited by James M. Robinson and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2529]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nickelsburg, George W. E., ed. Hermeneia: 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2001.

ID = [4481]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Jackson, Kent P. “Historical Text.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 53–56.
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The following is a transcription of the Book of Moses, Genesis 1:1–6:13, from Old Testament Manuscript 2 (OT2), Joseph Smith’s final draft of his New Translation of Genesis. It is found on pages 1–27 of that manuscript. The Prophet first dictated this part of Genesis between June 1830 and February 1831. Oliver Cowdery, John Whitmer, Emma Smith, and Sidney Rigdon assisted him as scribes. In the original dictated manuscript, Old Testament Manuscript 1 (OT1), the Book of Moses material is found on pages 1–21. The present manuscript (OT2) is a copy of the original, made by John Whitmer in March 1831. With very few exceptions, OT2 was the document on which Joseph Smith continued to refine the translation. He added to it numerous insertions and corrections, dictating them primarily to his scribe Sidney Rigdon. The present transcription preserves carefully the words of the manuscript, including words inserted after the original writing. Unless otherwise noted, the handwriting is that of John Whitmer.

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ID = [4702]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 5816  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Hoskisson, Paul Y., ed. Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures. Religious Studies Monograph Series 18. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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Since the beginnings of the Church, those who participated in the Restoration were commanded to keep a history. Latter-day Saints have an abiding interest in the history of God’s dealings with this earth. Similarly, we reverence the history in scripture because our faith is grounded in events that have taken place in the time and space of this earth. Historicity is the study of the authenticity of recorded past events. This significant compilation addresses the issue of historicity as it relates to the scriptures that Latter-day Saints accept as the word of God. With articles from Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Robert J. Matthews, Robert L. Millet, and more, this book provides an inspiring and more complete picture of the necessity for the historical nature of the Latter-day Saint canon.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

ID = [2483]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 10  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Matthews, Robert J. “Historicity and the Truthfulness of God.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 141–148. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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While some may argue that gospel truth is separate from historical truth, the gospel cannot be true unless it is also historical. This means that events such as the Creation, Fall, Atonement, and Restoration all truly took place in an identifiable time and place, even if that time and place are not known to us. If these or any gospel events were not historically true, God could not render a righteous judgment on any person.

Keywords: Book of Mormon; Historicity; Truth

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2621]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Oaks, Dallin H. “The Historicity of the Book of Mormon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 237–248. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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The issue of the historicity of the Book of Mormon highlights the difference between those who rely solely on scholarship and those who rely on revelation, faith, and scholarship. Those who rely solely on scholarship reject revelation and focus on a limited number of issues. But they can neither prove nor disprove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon through their secular evidence and methods. On the other hand, those who rely on a combination of revelation, faith, and scholarship can see and understand all of the complex issues of the Book of Mormon record, and it is only through that combination that the question of the historicity of the Book of Mormon can be answered.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

ID = [2632]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size: 25971  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Rosenthal, Franz. The History of al-Ṭabarī. Volume 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2534]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P. “History of the Book of Moses.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 1–52.
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Selections from the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price is the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) of Genesis 1:1–6:13, the beginning pages of the New Translation. The material in it was revealed between June 1830 and February 1831. In some ways, the Book of Moses can be considered the most significant part of the JST, because it has contributed more distinctive Latter-day Saint doctrine than any other part of that work. It has stood since the beginning of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as one of the doctrinal cornerstones of the Restoration and as an enduring testimony to the divinely inspired work of Joseph Smith.

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ID = [4701]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 68718  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Stone, Michael E. A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve. Society of Biblical Literature: Early Judaism and its Literature, ed. William Adler. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1992.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2538]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Tomasino, Anthony J. “History Repeats Itself: The ‘Fall and Noah’s Drunkenness.” Vetus Testamentum 42, no. 1 (January 1992): 128-30.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2681]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Book of Mormon Central. “How Do the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Endowment?” Book of Mormon Central, KnoWhy #396, January 4, 2018.
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Keywords: Bible; Old Testament; Temples; Heavenly Ascent; Endowment; Moses; Nephi; Pearl of Great Price; Book of Moses

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi

ID = [4691]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-04  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,moses,old-test  Size: 10501  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Matthews, Robert J. “How Joseph Smith Translation Passages Were Selected for the LDS Bible.” In Selected Writings of Robert J. Matthews, edited by Robert J. Matthews. Gospel Scholars Series, 312–313. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1999.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible

ID = [2670]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1999-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Judd, Frank F., Jr. “How to Be Reclaimed from the Fall of Adam.” In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, eds. Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift, 223–36. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2007.
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When Alma the Younger returned to Zarahemla following his mission to the Zoramites, “he caused that his sons should be gathered together, that he might give unto them every one his charge, separately, concerning the things pertaining to righteousness” (Alma 35:16). The Book of Mormon contains a significantly larger amount of counsel from Alma to his wayward son Corianton than to Helaman and Shiblon.
Within Alma’s teachings, we discover a concise explanation of the Fall of Adam and three elements necessary to reclaim each individual from the Fall, namely, death, the Atonement, and the Resurrection. This chapter will discuss the Fall of Adam and these three elements in Alma’s teachings to Corianton and also in the inspired teachings of modern apostles and prophets. This chapter will conclude that we can control only one of the three elements necessary to reclaim mankind from the Fall: whether we use the Atonement to repent of our sins and forgive others.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Alma
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > Q — S > Resurrection
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
RSC Topics > T — Z > Virtue

ID = [4716]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2007-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books,rsc-sperry  Size: 30757  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Matthews, Robert J. “How We Got the Book of Moses.” Ensign. January, 1986.
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The book of Moses is the first of several documents in the collection of sacred writings published as the Pearl of Great Price. Although this material is currently labeled “Selections from the Book of Moses,” it was not always specified by that name, nor has the content of the material always been exactly as it is today. A quick look at its origin, development, and content can help us more fully appreciate what the book of Moses is, how it came to be, and why it is a unique witness for Jesus Christ.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

ID = [2623]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P. “How We Got the Book of Moses.” Religious Educator 3, no. 1 (2002): 127–137.
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The book of Moses is an extract from Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible. It was revealed to the Prophet in 1830 and in early 1831, not long after the organization of the Church. This article is a brief introduction to the origin of the book of Moses and the Bible translation from which it derives.

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ID = [4696]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 71568  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Jackson, Kent P. “How We Got the Book of Moses.” In By Study and by Faith: Selections from the Religious Educator, ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [4722]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 71568  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Jackson, Kent P. “How We Got the Joseph Smith Translation, the Book of Moses, and Joseph Smith—Matthew.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “How We Got the Joseph Smith Translation, the Book of Moses, and Joseph Smith—Matthew” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [4633]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Jackson, Kent P. “How We Got the Joseph Smith Translation, the Book of Moses, and Joseph Smith—Matthew.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 75–96. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “How We Got the Joseph Smith Translation, the Book of Moses, and Joseph Smith—Matthew” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [4637]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Nibley, Hugh W. “Hugh Nibley’s Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University.” Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
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Published as Ancient Documents and the Pearl of Great Price.
Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of ancient scriptures at Brigham Young University, gave the following twenty-six lectures in an honors class on The Pearl of Great Price. This class was videotaped in the Maesar Building during winter semester 1986 and the text was then transcribed and is included here in this book.

See also: Teachings of the Pearl of Great Price (1986)

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [1218]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-08  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 26  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Angel, Joseph L. “The Humbling of the Arrogant and the ‘Wild Man’ and ‘Tree Stump’ Traditions in the Book of Giants and Daniel 4.” In Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Enrico Morano. Wissenschlaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 360, ed. Jörg Frey, 61-80. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [4456]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

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Smoot, Stephen O. “‘I Am a Son of God’: Moses’ Prophetic Call and Ascent into the Divine Council.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 923–42. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: ““I Am a Son of God”: Moses’ Prophetic Call and Ascent into the Divine Council” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

ID = [4653]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-04  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Smoot, Stephen O. “‘I Am a Son of God’: Moses’ Prophetic Call and Ascent into the Divine Council.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: ““I Am a Son of God”: Moses’ Prophetic Call and Ascent into the Divine Council” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

ID = [4666]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Jackson, Kent P. “‘If And’: A Hebrew Construction in the Book of Moses.” in Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, edited by Andrew C. Skinner, D. Morgan Davis, and Carl Griffin, 205–210. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2012.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2605]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jensen, Robin Scott. “Ignored and Unknown Clues of Early Mormon Record Keeping.” In Preserving the History of the Latter-day Saints (Brigham Young University Church History Symposium), edited by Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Steven C. Harper, 135–64. Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book, 2010.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History
RSC Topics > Q — S > Quorum
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

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Battista, Antonio, and Bellarmino Bagatti. Il Combattimento di Adamo: Testo arabo inedito con traduzione italiana e commento. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1982.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

ID = [2435]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1982-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Interpreter Foundation. “In God’s Image and Likeness 2 — Preface and Introduction.” The Interpreter Foundation website. March 2, 2020.

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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen’ and ‘Provided’: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 5 (2013): 201-223.
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Abstract: For ancient Israelites, the temple was a place where sacrifice and theophany (i.e., seeing God or other heavenly beings) converged. The account of Abraham’s “arrested” sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) and the account of the arrested slaughter of Jerusalem following David’s unauthorized census of Israel (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21) served as etiological narratives—explanations of “cause” or “origin”—for the location of the Jerusalem temple and its sacrifices. Wordplay on the verb rāʾâ (to “see”) in these narratives creates an etiological link between the place-names “Jehovah-jireh,” “Moriah” and the threshing floor of Araunah/Ornan, pointing to the future location of the Jerusalem temple as the place of theophany and sacrifice par excellence. Isaac’s arrested sacrifice and the vicarious animal sacrifices of the temple anticipated Jesus’s later “un-arrested” sacrifice since, as Jesus himself stated, “Abraham rejoiced to see my day” (John 8:56). Sacrifice itself was a kind of theophany in which one’s own redemption could be “seen” and the scriptures of the Restoration confirm that Abraham and many others, even “a great many thousand years before” the coming of Christ, “saw” Jesus’s sacrifice and “rejoiced.” Additionally, theophany and sacrifice converge in the canonized revelations regarding the building of the latter-day temple. These temple revelations begin with a promise of theophany, and mandate sacrifice from the Latter-day Saints. In essence, the temple itself was, and is, Christ’s atonement having its intended effect on humanity. .

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Helaman
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi

ID = [4354]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 56711  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:56

Berman, Joshua. Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2437]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Horton, George A., Jr. “Insights into the Book of Genesis.” In The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Robert L. Millet, 51–88. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1985.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings
Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > L — P > Old Testament

ID = [2595]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1985-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test,rsc-books  Size: 37648  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P. “Inspired Additions to Genesis.” In Studies in Scripture, Vol. 3: The Old Testament— Genesis to 2 Samuel, edited by Kent P. Jackson and Robert L. Millet, 35–46. Salt Lake City, UT: Randall Book, 1985.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

ID = [2601]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1985-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Van Wagoner, Merrill Y. The Inspired Revision of the Bible. Revised edition. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Press, 1963.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

ID = [2548]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1963-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Martinez, Florentino Garcia, and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, eds. Interpretations of the Flood. Themes in Biblical Narrative: Jewish and Christian Traditions 1, ed. Philip S. Alexander and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1998.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2495]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Wayment, Thomas A. “Intertextuality and the Purpose of Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible.” In Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen and Sharalyn Howcroft, 74–100. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2660]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Frederick, Nicholas J. “Intertextuality in the Book of Mormon.” In LDS Perspectives Podcast. Interview by Laura Harris Hales, Episode 92.
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In this episode of the LDS Perspectives Podcast, Laura Harris Hales interviews scholar Nicholas (Nick) J. Frederick about New Testament intertextuality in the Book of Mormon.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4596]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-08-22  Collections:  bom,interpreter-website,moses  Size: 3345  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Book of Mormon Central, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Introduction to the Book of Moses.” In Pearl of Great Price Central; The Interpreter Foundation. May 02, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Strack, H. L., and Günter Stemberger. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1996.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2541]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1996-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Head, Ronan James, and Ronan James Head. “The Investiture Panel at Mari and Rituals of Divine Kingship in the Ancient near East.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 4 (2012): 1–42.
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This article explores the ancient Near Eastern ritu-als that endowed kings with this power, specifically the rites suggested by the Investiture Panel at the palace of Mari, with specific focus on the motifs of creation, sacred garden, and divine kingship. Because contemporary evidence at Mari relating to an interpretation of the panel and the functions of various rooms of the palace is limited, it will be necessary to rely in part on a careful comparative analysis of religious texts, images, and architecture throughout the ancient Near East, including the Old Testament. Comparative analysis not only has the benefit of increasing our understanding of ancient Mesopotamian religion but also can enrich our understanding of the Bible.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [2679]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 91050  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Tsedaka, Benyamim, and Sharon Sullivan, eds. The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah. Translated by Benyamim Tsedaka. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2013.

ID = [2547]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2013-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

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Interpreter Foundation. “Jackson Article Preview — Did Joseph Smith Use Adam Clarke?” The Interpreter Foundation website. August 18, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

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Interpreter Foundation. “Jeffrey Bradshaw on ‘The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah’” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 27, 2012.

See also:
“The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah” (2014)
“The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Jeffrey M. Bradshaw — The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 15, 2018.

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Josephus, Flavius. Jewish Antiquities. Vol. 5–13 of the Works of Josephus. Translated by Henry St. John Thackaray, Ralph Marcus, Allen Wikgren and Louis H. Feldman. Loeb Classical Library 242, 490, 281, 326, 365, 489, 410, 433, 456. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930–1965.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2487]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1930-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction. 2nd edition. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2509]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Reeves, John C. Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony: Studies in the Book of Giants Traditions. Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 14. Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2528]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

deSilva, David A. The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2459]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Hamblin, William J. “Joseph or Jung?” In Hugh Nibley Observed, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Shirley S. Ricks, and Stephen T. Whitlock, Chapter 26, pp. 523-544. Orem, UT, and Salt Lake City: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021.
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This chapter is adapted from a review of Douglas F. Salmon, “Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious,“ Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 2 (2000): 129–56. The article was originally published as William J. Hamblin and Gordon C. Thomasson, “Joseph or Jung? A Response to Douglas Salmon,“ FARMS Review of Books 13, no. 2 (2001): 87–107.
A review of an article written by Douglas F. Salmon.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Texts > Adam traditions
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Comparative Analysis
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve

ID = [1795]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:29

Barker, Margaret. “Joseph Smith and Preexilic Israelite Religion.” BYU Studies Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2006): 69-82.
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Terryl Givens has set Joseph Smith in the religious and cultural context of his time and raised many important issues. I should like to take a few of these issues and set them in another context, that of preexilic Jerusalem. I am not a scholar of Mormon texts and traditions. I am a biblical scholar specializing in the Old Testament, and until some Mormon scholars made contact with me a few years ago, I would never have considered using Mormon texts and traditions as part of my work. Since that initial contact I have had many good and fruitful exchanges and have begun to look at these texts very closely. I am still, however, very much an amateur in this area. What I offer can only be the reactions of an Old Testament scholar: are the revelations to Joseph Smith consistent with the situation in Jerusalem in about 600 BCE? Do the revelations to Joseph Smith fit in that context, the reign of King Zedekiah, who is mentioned at the beginning of the First Book of Nephi, which begins in the “first year of the reign of Zedekiah” (1 Nephi 1:4)? Zedekiah was installed as king in Jerusalem in 597 BCE.

Keywords: 1 Nephi; Jerusalem; King Zedekiah; Old Testament; Preexilic

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi

ID = [4676]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size: 30998  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Calabro, David M. “Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis.” In The Temple: Ancient and Restored. Proceedings of the 2014 Temple on Mount Zion Symposium, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 3. 165–181. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016.
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During his lifetime, Joseph Smith revealed at least four versions of what I will refer to as the “Genesis account,” which consists of the creation of the world, the experiences of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and the events that befell them and their near posterity following the expulsion from the garden. These four versions each differ in important ways from the biblical text in Genesis, and they also differ one from another. The versions of the Genesis account include the following:

(1) scattered references found in the Book of Mormon;
(2) the biblical account as revised in the Book of Moses;
(3) the account in the Book of Abraham; and
(4) the version presented in the temple endowment.

I will focus on the second of these, the Book of Moses, especially chapters 1-7, which were revealed to Joseph Smith from June to December 1830. Many have already pointed out temple-related themes that abound in these chapters.

I will take these discoveries a step further, arguing that Moses 1-7 is fundamentally a ritual text whose elements are adapted to the physical features of the temple of Solomon. I will then discuss how this reading of the Book of Moses might interact with modern scholarship on the biblical book of Genesis, and ﬁnally how this reading of Moses can provide insight into ritual performances both ancient and modern

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2591]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Paulsen, David L. “Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World.” BYU Studies Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2006): 175-212.
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Keywords: Joseph; Jr.; Philosophy; Protestant; Protestantism; Smith; Theology

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Jackson, Kent P. “Joseph Smith Translating Genesis.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2017): 7–28.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

ID = [2608]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size: 48197  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Barney, Kevin L. “The Joseph Smith Translation and Ancient Texts of the Bible.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 19, no. 3 (Fall 1986): 85-102.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2565]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1986-09-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size: 51027  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Ludlow, Jared W. “The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible: Ancient Material Restored or Inspired Commentary? Canonical or Optional? Finished or Unfinished?” BYU Studies Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2021): 147–57.
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Joseph Smith began an ambitious program to revise the biblical text in June 1830, not long after the organization of the Church of Christ and the publication of the Book of Mormon. While the result came to be known as the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), it was not a literal word-for-word translation of ancient biblical languages from a manuscript but more of an inspired revision or paraphrase based on the King James Version in English, carried out primarily between June 1830 and July 1833.1 Since Joseph Smith never specifically addressed how or exactly why he made the particular changes he did, it is an open question whether he felt he was restoring ancient material, making inspired commentary, modernizing the language, a combination of things, or something else.2 Another open question related to this project is its status among Latter-day Saint scripture. Is the entire JST considered canonical or not? Perhaps a further open question is whether the JST project was ever finished. This paper will address these issues by giving an overview of statements and approaches toward the JST.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether

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Ashurst-McGee, Mark, and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “Joseph Smith Translation Q&A with Mark Ashurst-McGee and Michael Hubbard MacKay.” In From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring. August 4, 2020.

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ID = [4458]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-08-04  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Ashurst-McGee, Mark, and Michael Hubbard MacKay. “Joseph Smith Translation with Mark Ashurst-McGee and Michael Hubbard MacKay.” On From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring. https://www.fromthedesk.org/producing-ancient-scripture/. August 4, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [6488]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2020-08-04  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:45:13

Marsh, W. Jeffrey. The Joseph Smith Translation: Precious Truths Restored. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2002.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

ID = [2494]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nyman, Monte S., and Robert L. Millet, eds. The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things. Religious Studies Center Monograph Series 12. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1985.
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Ten prominent Church scholars presented at the symposium on the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. Their in-depth study of the Joseph Smith Translation and related scriptures clarifies the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and show how Joseph Smith restored many plain and precious truths to that holy book. This volume brings together those addresses, illuminating this inspired translation as perhaps no other book had done.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History
Old Testament Topics > Symposia and Collections of Essays

ID = [2512]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1985-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Skinner, Andrew C. “Joseph Smith Vindicated Again: Enoch, Moses 7:48, and Apocryphal Sources.” In Reason, Revelation, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, 365—381. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Old Testament Topics > Moses

ID = [2651]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size: 31723  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Wayment, Thomas A. “Joseph Smith, Adam Clarke, and the Making of a Bible Revision.” Journal of Mormon History 46, no. 3 (July 2020): 1–22.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2661]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Cirillo, Salvatore. “Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and Enochic Tradition.” Master’s Thesis, Durham University, 2010.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2689]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 329255  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Jackson, Kent P. “Joseph Smith’s Cooperstown Bible: The Historical Context of the Bible Used in the Joseph Smith Translation.” BYU Studies Quarterly 40, no. 1 (2001): 41-70.
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In 1828, the H. and E. Phinney Company in Cooperstown, New York, published a quarto-size edition of the King James Bible. This is the version that Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, used in his work when he created a new translation of the Bible. Here the author examines Joseph Smith’€™s marked-up copy of the Phinney Bible as an artifact important to Mormonism’€”some of Smith’€™s corrections and additions appear in footnotes of the Bible that Mormons use today. The author notes that the Phinney Bible’s updated language is more modern than the version of the Bible Latter-day Saints officially use (the King James), and the modernization may or may not have influenced Joseph Smith’€™s word choice in creating his translation. The author also gives biographical information on the Phinneys, describes how their Bible may have made its way into Joseph Smith’€™s hands, briefly traces the history of the English Bible in America, and describes the printing process employed by the Phinneys.

Keywords: Bible Translation; Joseph Smith Translation; King James Bible

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
Old Testament Topics > Bible: King James Version
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

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Wayment, Thomas A. “Joseph Smith’s Developing Relationship with the Apocrypha.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, Brigham Young University Church History Symposium, eds. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey and Andrew H. Hedges, 331–355. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2015.
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Several approaches to interpreting Joseph Smith’s use of the so-called Jewish and Christian apocryphal literature have been employed both by critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter LDS), and by those professing faith in the Church and whose interests may be classified as apologetic. These approaches span the range of being probative of Joseph Smith’s restoration of lost texts and scripture and being dismissive of Mormonism generally, because its sacred religious texts are founded on flagrant plagiarism of apocryphal literature.[1] Before one can answer the most important historical question at hand, how Joseph Smith used the Apocrypha and what relationship that body of literature had to early Mormon writings, it seems prudent to first of all establish some controls on the discussion. This is necessary because previous discussions have largely contented themselves with drawing out parallels between apocryphal writings and early Mormon publications without any discussion of whether or not Joseph Smith had access to the texts under discussion. Moreover, a wide variety of modern translations of ancient apocryphal texts are often employed when there is no possible way that someone living in the early nineteenth century could have known them. This is particularly important when citing phrases or words that Joseph Smith might have incorporated into the language of his revelations.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible
RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether

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Jackson, Kent P. “Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 1830.” In Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer, edited by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson, 51–76. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2010.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History
RSC Topics > A — C > Church History 1820–1844

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Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2004.
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The latter-day restoration of the gospel included the restoration of much significant truth to the Bible. It brought about the restoration of biblical history that had been lost and the restoration of biblical texts that had been changed or omitted or were in need of clarification. More important, it included the restoration of biblical doctrine that had been either removed, distorted, or simply misinterpreted by a world that did not enjoy the fulness of the gospel.
Shortly after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint was organized, the Prophet Joseph Smith was instructed by the Lord to undertake a careful reading of the Bible to revise and make corrections in accordance with the inspiration that he would receive. The result was a work of profound significance for the Church that included the revelation of many important truths and the restoration of many of the “precious things” that the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi had foretold would be taken from the Bible (1 Ne. 13:23–29). In June 1830 the first revealed addition to the Bible was set to writing. Over the next three years, the Prophet made changes, additions, and corrections as were given him by divine inspiration while he filled his calling to provide a more correct translation for the Church. Collectively, these are called the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), a name first applied in the 1970s, or the New Translation, as Joseph Smith and others in his day referred to it.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions
Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)

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Matthews, Robert J. Joseph Smith’s Revision of the Bible. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1969.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

ID = [2499]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1969-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Faulring, Scott H., and Kent P. Jackson, eds. Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible Electronic Library. CD-ROM. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

ID = [2463]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Jackson, Kent P. “Joseph Smith’s Translation of the New Testament.” In New Testament History, Culture, and Society, edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, 707–718. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2019.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
RSC Topics > G — K > Joseph Smith

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Brown, Samuel Morris. Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2444]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Wayment, Thomas A. “Joseph Smith’s Use of Adam Clarke’s Commentary in the JST.” Interview by Laura Harris Hales. LDS Perspectives Podcast, Episode 55, September 26, 2017. Accessed September 1, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2692]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2017-09-26  Collections:  moses  Size: 25311  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

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Gardner, Iain, ed. The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 37, ed. James M. Robinson and H. J. Klimkeit. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1995.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [4473]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Jackson, Kent P. “The King James Bible and the Joseph Smith Translation.” In The King James Bible and the Restoration, edited by Kent P. Jackson, 197–211. Provo, UT and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2612]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Townsend, Colby J. “The King James Bible in the Book of Moses, Part 1.” Rational Faiths. April, 12, 2014.
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With the recent publication of David Bokovoy’s Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy, many have wondered to what extent the Bible has had influence on the Book of Moses. The discussion has mainly revolved around the parts of the text that are obvious revisions of the Genesis creation chapters (Genesis 1, 2-3) that originate from different Israelite sources written centuries after the time of Moses. In response to and in order to make a contribution toward further understanding this topic I will look closely at the full text of the Book of Moses in the original manuscripts (as presented in BYU’s RSC publications) and locate the places of intertextuality. I will present the Book of Moses on a chapter by chapter basis until I arrive at the end, and after this is complete I will offer some thoughts on to what extent the KJV influenced the composition of the Book of Moses. This will take time for each of these posts to come out, and I hope that in the meantime others will utilize the work here to discuss the topic. My approach in these posts is based on my much larger project of locating textual dependence throughout the Book of Mormon on the King James Bible, a manuscript that will be published by Greg Kofford Books.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2671]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-04-12  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “KnoWhy OTL03A — What Can the Architecture of Israelite Temples Teach Us About Creation and the Garden of Eden?” Interpreter Foundation blog. January 8, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4667]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-01-08  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-website,moses,old-test  Size: 47796  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

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Ri, Andreas Su-Min, ed. La Caverne des Trésors: Les deux recensions syriaques. 2 vols. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 486–487 (Scriptores Syri 207–208). Louvain, Belgium: Peeters, 1987.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

ID = [2531]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Morrison, Alexander B. “The Latter-day Saint Concept of Canon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson, 1–16. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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Traditional Christianity struggled for many years to define its canon, to determine which of its writings were sacred, inspired, and authoritative. The Latter-day Saint concept of canon differs from that of other Christians. In addition to the Bible, the Latter-day Saint canon includes the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. These “standard works” provide a measuring rod by which we can judge other texts and statements. But while we have a canon, we nevertheless believe that God continues to make known His will through the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles—men we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators. Inspired by the Holy Ghost, their decisions are to be made in unity (D&C 107:27). We as Church members also need the Holy Ghost in order to recognize scriptural power in their words, and we can be comforted in the Lord’s promise that the President of the Church will never lead us astray.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Canon
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

ID = [2628]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  bom,d-c,moses,rsc-books  Size: 36474  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Woods, Fred E. “The Latter-day Saint Edition of the King James Bible.” In The King James Bible and the Restoration, edited by Kent P. Jackson, 260–280. Provo, UT and Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Religious Studies Center, 2011.
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During the early 1970s, a practical need arose for a Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Bible. As explained by George A. Horton Jr., director of curriculum production and distribution for the Church Educational System, three different Bibles were in circulation among Church members—one for adults, one for seminary students, and one for Primary children. Not only did this system create an element of chaos, but it also increased costs. [1] About this time, the Spirit of the Lord seemed to be hovering over several people in various organizations within the Church. Two of these people were Horton and his colleague Grant E. Barton, who was then serving as a member of the newly formed Meetinghouse Library Committee. [2] Horton and Barton were neighbors who carpooled together to the Church Office Building, using the occasion to discuss a desire to have one Bible as well as teaching aids for an LDS edition. [3] Barton, Horton, and another colleague decided to survey various organizations of the Church to help them decide “what the ideal characteristics/features would be of the ideal Bible that would be used by all.”

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether

ID = [2667]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size: 47601  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Pike, Dana M. “The Latter-day Saint Reimaging of ‘the Breath of Life’ (Genesis 2:7).” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2017): 71-104.
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The creation and flood accounts in Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) contain variations on a phrase commonly translated “the breath of life.” This phrase additionally occurs in some uniquely Latter-day Saint materials relating to creation. After overviewing and analyzing this phrase and its meaning in the Bible, this paper then examines the occurrences of the phrase “the breath of life” in important early Latter-day Saint texts.1 The purpose of this study is to illustrate and explain how and why many Latter-day Saints have come to often employ the phrase “the breath of life,” transforming its traditional biblical meaning into a new, Restoration-oriented use referencing the embodiment of the first human’s premortal spirit and, by extension, the embodiment of all other people’s spirits.

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ID = [4687]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size: 94629  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Hauglid, Brian M., and Carl W. Griffin, eds. Latter-day Saint Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Special issue of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity (Volume 2). Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2010.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The LDS Book of Enoch as the Culminating Story of a Temple Text.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 39–73.
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In this article, I will suggest how the LDS story of Enoch might be understood as the culminating episode in a temple text cycle woven through the book of Moses. I will begin by giving a brief summary of “temple theology” and what is meant by the term “temple text.” Distinctive aspects of LDS temple teachings will be outlined. I will then outline how the book of Moses reflects elements of temple architecture, furnishings, and ritual in the story of the Creation and the Fall. Like other scripture-based temple texts, the general structure of the second half of the book of Moses follows a pattern exemplifying faithfulness and unfaithfulness to a specific sequence of covenants that is familiar to members of the LDS Church who have received the temple endowment. I argue that the story of Enoch and his people provides a vivid demonstration of the final steps on the path that leads back to God and up to exaltation.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2675]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,moses  Size: 94082  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Parry, Donald W., and Dana M. Pike, eds. LDS Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 10—The Babylon Creation Myth.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Texts > Enuma Elish
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 2

ID = [1228]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 11—The Human Condition.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions > Fall
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4

ID = [1229]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 12—The Plurality of Worlds.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 1
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Science > Cosmology, Creation, Treasures in the Heavens

ID = [1230]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 13—The Pearl of Great Price on the Plurality of Worlds.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 1
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Science > Cosmology, Creation, Treasures in the Heavens

ID = [1231]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 14—Treasures in Heaven.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 1
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Science > Cosmology, Creation, Treasures in the Heavens

ID = [1232]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 15—The Geological Problem.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4

ID = [1233]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 17—The Heavenly Prologue.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions > Preexistence, Premortal Life
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 3
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4

ID = [1235]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 18—The Combat.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions > Satan
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 1
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Moses

ID = [1236]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 19—Adam and Eve.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve

ID = [1237]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 1—Restoring What Was Lost.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Bible > Joseph Smith Translation
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses

ID = [1219]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 20—The Heritage of Cain.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 5
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Cain
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Zion, Babylon > Mahan Principle

ID = [1238]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 21—The Eve Theme; The Book of Enoch.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1239]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 22—Enoch.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1240]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 24—The Destruction.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 8
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Noah, Ham, Shem, Japheth

ID = [1242]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 3—Literalism.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve

ID = [1221]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 6—The Creation.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 4
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 2

ID = [1224]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 7—The Council.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions > Preexistence, Premortal Life
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 3
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 4
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4

ID = [1225]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 8—The Council According to the Shabako Stone.” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Texts > Shabako Stone
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions > Preexistence, Premortal Life
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 3
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 4
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4

ID = [1226]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Nibley, Hugh W. “Lecture 9—The Council According to the Shabako Stone (Continued).” In Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. Lectures presented to an Honors Book of Mormon class at Brigham Young University, Winter Semester, 1986. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Texts > Shabako Stone
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Doctrines, Principles > Plan of Salvation, Terrible Questions > Preexistence, Premortal Life
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 3
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Chapters > Abraham 4
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4

ID = [1227]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1986-12-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:25

Reed, Annette Yoshiko. “The Legacy of Enoch from the Middle Ages.” Paper prepared for pre-circulation for the Tenth Enoch Seminar, June 2019 (DRAFT). In Semantic Scholar.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [4486]  Status = Type = manuscript  Date = 2019-06-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Ginzberg, Louis, ed. The Legends of the Jews. 7 vols. Translated by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1909-1938. Reprint, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [4598]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Calabro, David M. “Lehi’s Dream and the Garden of Eden.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 26 (2017): 269-296.
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Abstract: Lehi’s dream in 1 Nephi 8 and Nephi’s related vision in 1 Nephi 11–14 contain many features related to the biblical garden of Eden, including most prominently the tree of life. A close reading of the features of Lehi’s dream in light of the earliest Book of Mormon text shows further similarities to the biblical garden, suggesting that the setting of Lehi’s dream is actually the garden of Eden. But the differences are also informative. These include both substantive features absent from the biblical Eden and differences in the language used to describe the features. Many of the variant features are also found in other ancient creation accounts. In view of these observations, it is likely the Book of Mormon presupposes a variant account of the garden of Eden. This variant account forms the backdrop for Lehi’s dream and for other references to the garden in the Book of Mormon.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi

ID = [3682]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 63951  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:43

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 10 – Moses 2 (Genesis 1; Abraham 4).” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4731]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 11 – Moses 3 (Genesis 2; Abraham 5).” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Adam and Eve [see also Fall]
Old Testament Topics > Marriage

ID = [4732]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 12 – Moses 4 (Genesis 3).” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4733]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 13 – Moses 5:1–11.” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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ID = [4734]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 15 – Moses 5:12–59 (Genesis 4).” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4735]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 16 – Moses 6 (Genesis 5).” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4736]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 18 – Moses 7.” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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ID = [4737]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 19 – Moses 8 (Genesis 6:1–12).” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4738]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 6 –.” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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ID = [4729]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Lesson 7 – Moses 1:24–42.” In Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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ID = [4730]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2018-09-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Johnson, M. D. “Life of Adam and Eve.” In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth, Volume 2, 249–295. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1983.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

ID = [2615]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1983-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

De Jonge, Marinus, and Johannes Tromp. The Life of Adam and Eve and Related Literature. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Secondary Sources

ID = [2458]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1997-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Tromp, Johannes. The Life of Adam and Eve in Greek: A Critical Edition. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

ID = [2546]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Mopsik, Charles, ed. Le Livre Hébreu d’Hénoch ou Livre des Palais. Les Dix Paroles, ed. Charles Mopsik. Lagrasse, France: Éditions Verdier, 1989.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2505]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Johnson, Mark J. “The Lost Prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 145–186.
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Abstract: The character and complexion of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible (JST) is often a puzzle to students and scholars. One text in particular, the first chapter of the Book of Moses, claims that its very words would be lost and later restored to the believing. As this bold claim has not yet been verified by the discovery of an ancient copy of this text, clues to the antiquity of this document will need to be discovered within the text itself. This study investigates Moses 1 with the tools of biblical and literary criticism to discover if the text has the characteristics and content of an ancient religious document.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2702]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64805  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Barker, Margaret. The Lost Prophet: The Book of Enoch and its influence on Christianity. London: SPCK, 1988.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2433]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1988-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Walton, John H. The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2015.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

ID = [2554]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [2551]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Robinson, Stephen E. “Lying for God: The Uses of the Apocrypha.” In Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints, edited by C. Wilfred Griggs, 133-154. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1986.
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In this paper I intend to deal primarily with the element of deception in the production and employment of apocryphal literature, particularly as it is revealed by the devices of pseudonymity and pseudepigraphy. I am defining pseudonymity here as an author’s intentional adoption of another persona, not merely as a pen name but as an assumed identity. Thus the Testament of Solomon is pseudonymous because the author has clearly adopted the persona of Solomon and speaks, as Solomon, in the first person. On the other hand, Huckleberry Finn would not be pseudonymous by my definition even though Samuel Clemens used the nom de plume Mark Twain, because Clemens did not adopt a persona other than his own; that is, we may assume that Clemens did not return royalty checks made out to Mark Twain, but rather cashed them unashamedly. Sam Clemens was Mark Twain, and there was no real possibility of confusing one person for the other.

Keywords: Apocrypha; Pseudepigrapha

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

ID = [2644]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Matthew L. Bowen. “‘Made Stronger Than Many Waters’: The Names of Moses as Keywords in the Heavenly Ascent of Moses.” In The Temple: Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Vol. 6. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021.
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The idea of names as “keywords” has been associated with temples since very early times. In a temple context, the meaning of the term “keyword” can be taken quite literally: the use of the appropriate keyword or keywords by a qualified worshipper “unlocks” each one of a successive series of gates, thus providing access to specific, secured areas of the sacred space. In this presentation, we will explore how a series of names and titles purportedly given to Moses at various points in his life might relate to accounts of his ascents to heaven.

See also: ““Made Stronger Than Many Waters”: The Purported Sacred Names of Moses as a Series of Keywords” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [2573]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Matthew L. Bowen. “‘Made Stronger Than Many Waters’: The Purported Sacred Names of Moses as a Series of Keywords.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 943–1000. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “‘Made Stronger Than Many Waters’: The Names of Moses as Keywords in the Heavenly Ascent of Moses” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [4654]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-04  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Brown, S. Kent. “Man and Son of Man: Issues of Theology and Christology.” In The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, edited by H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 57–72. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1989.
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First, I want to deal with the figure of the Son of Man in ancient literature, reviewing along the way what current biblical scholarship says about this personality, especially since he is mentioned prominently in nonscriptural sources. Second, I intend to treat the question of the anthropomorphic view of God in scripture, specifically in the Old Testament. Third, I wish to touch on the issue of the nature of the titles used for deity throughout scripture, for we all have the impression that a great many are applied to God, especially within the pages of the Old Testament. Fourth and last, I want to single out the parallels in ancient Christian and Jewish literature to the remarkable, almost singular theological position to which we Latter-day Saints are committed when we call deity a Man, whether Man of Holiness, Man of Counsel (Moses 7:35), or some similar title.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

ID = [2581]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Brown, S. Kent, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Man and Son of Man: Probing Theology and Christology in the Book of Moses and in Jewish and Christian Tradition.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also: “Man and Son of Man: Probing Theology and Christology in the Book of Moses and in Jewish and Christian Tradition” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

ID = [4663]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Brown, S. Kent, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. “Man and Son of Man: Probing Theology and Christology in the Book of Moses and in Jewish and Christian Tradition.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 1257–332. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “Man and Son of Man: Probing Theology and Christology in the Book of Moses and in Jewish and Christian Tradition” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

ID = [4657]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-04  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Gulácsi, Zsuzsanna. Mani’s Pictures: The Didactic Images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 90. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2015.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [4474]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Nibley, Hugh W. “Man’s Dominion.” New Era.
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Pointed social commentary concerning the state of the natural environment.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Stewardship, Creation, Earth, Environment

ID = [1005]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1972-10-01  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

McConkie, Rebecca L. “‘A Miracle from Day One’: Publication of the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts.” The Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 5, no. 2 (2004): 13–21.
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Later this year, the Religious Studies Center will publish a volume called Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts, edited by Scott H. Faulring, Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews. To help readers understand the scope and purpose of this project, the Religious Educator held the following interview with two of the editors.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible

ID = [2627]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 20341  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Sundermann, Werner. Mittelpersische und parthische kosmogonische und Parabeltexte der Manichäer. Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients 8. Berlin, Germany: Akademie-Verlag, 1973.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [4489]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1973-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Ash, Michael R. “The Mormon Myth of Evil Evolution.” Dialogue 35, no. 4 (2002): 19-59.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

ID = [4457]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 54292  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46 (2021): 291-312.
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Abstract: In this essay, Richard Bushman borrows a critical perspective from Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He analyzes the representation of antiquity in two of Joseph Smith’s striking translations, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses. The two texts, produced within a few years of one another, created distinctive stages on which to dramatize the human-God relationship. The question is: What can we learn from this comparison about God, prophets, and human destiny?
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the Latter-day Saint community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.
See Richard L. Bushman, “Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality,” in Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central; Redding, CA: FAIR; Tooele, UT: Eborn Books, 2021), 51–74. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ancient-threads-in-the-book-of-moses/.].

See also:
“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” (2021)
“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [3393]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2021-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 48229  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:40

Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also:
“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” (2021)
“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4632]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2021-04-23  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Bushman, Richard Lyman. “Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 51–74. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also:
“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” (2021)
“Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Evenson, William E., and Duane E. Jeffery, eds. Mormonism and Evolution: The Authoritative LDS Statements. Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Head, Ronan James, and Ronan James Head. “Mormonism’s Satan and the Tree of Life.” Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology 4, no. 2 (2010): 1-54.
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Longer version of an invited presentation originally given at the 2009 Conference of the European Mormon Studies Association, Turin, Italy, July 30-31, 2009

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

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Shannon, Avram R. “Mormons and Midrash: On the Composition of Expansive Interpretation in Genesis Rabbah and the Book of Moses.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2015): 15–34.
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One of the intriguing things about religious texts is how long of a life and how long of an afterlife they have. Once a text becomes a part of a “canon,” once it becomes in a way fixed, it becomes open to further discussion and elaboration. Different groups and religious traditions create different genres of interpretation to work with and understand their scriptures according to the needs of their traditions. One form of interpretation involves reopening the Bible and expanding on the narrative of the already canonized text, such as is found in the rabbinic genre of midrash and in Joseph Smith’s New Translation (JST) of the Bible.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

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Barlow, Philip L. Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion. Updated ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Philip L. Barlow offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken to the Bible by major Mormon leaders, from its beginnings to the present. He shows that Mormon attitudes toward the Bible comprise an extraordinary mix of conservative, liberal, and radical ingredients: an almost fundamentalist adherence to the King James Version co-exists with belief in the possibility of new revelation and surprising ideas about the limits of human language. Barlow’s exploration takes important steps toward unraveling the mystery of this quintessential American religious phenomenon. This updated edition of Mormons and the Bible includes an extended bibliography and a new preface, casting Joseph Smith’s mission into a new frame and treating evolutions in Mormonism’s biblical usage in recent decades.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Canon
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible
Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation

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Givens, Terryl L. “Mortality Reconsidered: The Book of Moses as a Pre-Augustinian Text.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also: “The Book of Moses as a Pre–Augustinian Text: A New Look at the Pelagian Crisis” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 1.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 57-66.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Eternal Life
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 38 (2020): 179-290.
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Abstract: This article highlights the striking resemblances between Moses 1 and a corresponding account from the Apocalypse of Abraham (ApAb), one of the earliest and most important Jewish texts describing heavenly ascent. Careful comparative analysis demonstrates a sustained sequence of detailed affinities in narrative structure that go beyond what Joseph Smith could have created out of whole cloth from his environment and his imagination. The article also highlights important implications for the study of the Book of Moses as a temple text. Previous studies have suggested that the story of Enoch found in the Pearl of Great Price might be understood as the culminating episode of a temple text woven throughout chapters 2–8 of the Book of Moses. The current article is a conceptual bookend to these earlier studies, demonstrating that the account of heavenly ascent in Moses 1 provides a compelling prelude to a narrative outlining laws and liturgy akin to what could have been used anciently as part of ritual ascent within earthly temples.

See also:
“Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” (2020)
“Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” (2021)

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also:
“Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” (2020)
“Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” (2021)

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 789–922. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also:
“Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” (2020)
“Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?” (2020)

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

ID = [4652]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-04  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-website,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 1-8.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 143–144.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 1:12–23: Satan Commanded Moses to Worship Him.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 1:1–11: God Revealed Himself to Moses.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 1:24–42: Moses Learned More about the Work of God.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 2.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 67–71.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 2:1–31: The Physical Creation.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 3.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts, 73–77. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 3:1–25: The Spiritual Creation and the Garden of Eden.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 4.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 79–85.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 4:1–19: The Plan of Salvation and the Fall.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 4:20–32: The Consequences of the Fall.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 5.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 87–99.

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RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 5:16–59: Cain and His Descendants and the Preaching of the Gospel.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 5:1–15: Adam and Eve Were Taught the Gospel.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 6.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 101–115.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Moses 6-7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (April 23-24, 2021), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2021.

See also:
“Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry” (2021)
“Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry” (2021)

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 6:1–47: Adam’s Posterity and the Prophet Enoch.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 6:48–68: Enoch’s Teachings.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 48 (2021): 95-312.
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Abstract: The Book of Giants (BG), an Enoch text found in 1948 among the Dead Sea Scrolls, includes a priceless trove of stories about the ancient prophet and his contemporaries, including unique elements relevant to the Book of Moses Enoch account. Hugh Nibley was the first to discover in the BG a rare personal name that corresponds to the only named character in the Book of Moses besides Enoch himself, a finding that some non-Latter-day Saint Enoch scholars considered significant. Since Nibley’s passing, the growth of new scholarship on ancient Enoch texts has continued unabated. While Nibley’s pioneering research compared the names and roles of one character in Moses 6–7 and BG, scholars have now been able to examine the names and roles of nearly all of the prominent figures in the two books and analyze their respective accounts in more detail. Not only are the overall storylines of the two independent accounts more similar than could have imagined a few years ago, a series of recent studies have added substance to the claim that the specific resemblances of the Book of Giants to Moses 6–7—resemblances that are rare or absent elsewhere in Jewish tradition—are more numerous and significant than the resemblances of any other single ancient Enoch text—or, for that matter, to all of the most significant extant Enoch texts combined. Of particular note is new evidence in BG that relates to the Book of Moses account of Enoch’s gathering of Zion to divinely prepared cities and the ascent of his people to the presence of God.

[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the Latter-day Saint community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.

[Page 96]See Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry,” in Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, ed. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central; Redding, CA: FAIR; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2021), 1041–256. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ancient-threads-in-the-book-of-moses/.

A condensed and simplified version of ancient evidence for the Enoch account in the Book of Moses will be forthcoming in a new book:

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Enoch and the Gathering of Zion: The Witness of Ancient Texts for Modern Scripture. Orem, Springville, and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, and Eborn Books, 2021. See https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/enoch-and-the-gathering-of-zion/.

In the meantime, perhaps this video version may be a little easier to digest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP6GYxbieNQ

Also, the Book of Moses Essays #1-30 at https://interpreterfoundation.org/book-of-moses-essays/ overlap somewhat, containing both earlier versions of some (but not all) of the findings in this article, while also including topics that are not in the paper.]

See also:
“Moses 6-7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry” (2021)
“Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 1041–256. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also:
“Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry” (2021)
“Moses 6-7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 7.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 117–136.

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RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 7:1–41: Enoch Was a Leader of God’s People and a Seer.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 7:42–69: Enoch Foresaw the Days of Noah, the Time of Jesus Christ, and the Last Days.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Jackson, Kent P. “Moses 8.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005, 137–142.

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RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. “Moses 8: The World Was Filled with Wickedness.” In The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Holland, Jeffrey R. “My Words … Never Cease.” Ensign 38, no. 5, May 2008, 91–94.
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We invite all to inquire into the wonder of what God has said since biblical times and is saying even now.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

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Stuckenbruck, Loren T. The Myth of Rebellious Angels. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

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Embry, Brad. “The ‘Naked Narrative’ from Noah to Leviticus: Reassessing Voyeurism in the Account of Noah’s Nakedness in Genesis 9:22-24.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 35, no. 4 (2011): 417-33.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Ludlow, Jared W. “A Narrative Approach to the Joseph Smith Translation of the Synoptic Gospels.” BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2015): 35–62.
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One of the first projects Joseph Smith undertook after the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April 1830 was a translation of the Bible. Although it was not a typical translation from original Greek or Hebrew manuscripts, the project was often called a “translation” nonetheless. The Joseph Smith Translation, or JST as it is often called, was referred to by the Lord in the Doctrine and Covenants as “the new translation of my holy word” (D&C 124:89). At the top of the manuscript of the revision of Matthew, it reads, “A translation of the New Testament translated by the power of God.”

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [4605]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2015-01-01  Collections:  d-c,moses  Size: 69538  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Ricks, Stephen D. “The Narrative Call Pattern in the Prophetic Commission of Enoch (Moses 6).” BYU Studies Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1986): 97-105.
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There is a striking example of a “narrative” type call in the prophetic commission of Enoch in Moses 6:23–36. This study considers the elements of the narrative call pattern; those elements of this form found in the prophetic commission of Enoch are examined and compared with the biblical narrative call passages.
The report of the prophetic vocation of Enoch in the book of Moses accords with impressive consistency with the call narratives in the Bible. All of the elements of the prophetic call pattern isolated and examined by Habel in the calls of Moses, Gideon, and Jeremiah are also found in the Enoch passage; with one minor exception, the order of the elements in the vocation of Enoch is the same as in the call accounts recorded in the Bible. This additional authenticating detail places Enoch more securely in the tradition of the prophets and the book of Moses more firmly in the form and tradition of the prophetic literature.

Keywords: Book of Moses; Enoch (Prophet)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Enoch

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Hoskisson, Paul Y. “The Need for Historicity: Why Banishing God from History Removes Historical Obligation.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson, 99–122. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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Key historical events in the scriptures require historicity to give substance to our faith. Since the Enlightenment, however, some scholars have proclaimed that the scriptures lack historicity. In the face of these doubts, some have argued that historicity is not necessary for belief. Latter-day Saints should be wary of the misleading arguments of critics and of simplistic solutions to those arguments.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > God the Father

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Hendel, Ronald S. “The Nephilim Were on the Earth: Genesis 6:1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” In The Fall of the Angels, edited by C. Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 11-34. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2004.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

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Jackson, Kent P. “New Discoveries in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.” In By Study and by Faith: Selections from the Religious Educator, revised edition, edited by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson, 169–181. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2009.
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In November 2004 the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University published a facsimile transcription of all the original manuscripts of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. [1] I was privileged to be one of the editors of the project and worked with those manuscripts in preparing the publication. A facsimile transcription seeks to reproduce in print—as much as is humanly and typographically possible—the writing found on a handwritten document. Thus the transcription includes the writers’ original spelling, grammar, punctuation, line endings, omissions, errors, insertions, and deletions. The purpose of the publication is to provide scholars and lay readers with an accurate reproduction of the text as found on Joseph Smith’s original manuscripts. Its importance is in the fact that those documents had never been made public before but were stored in archives that were only available for study to a limited number of researchers.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

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Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. “New Testament Revision 1.” The Joseph Smith Papers.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

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Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. “New Testament Revision 2.” The Joseph Smith Papers.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

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Freedman, David Noel. The Nine Commandments. Des Moines, IA: Anchor Bible, 2000.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Freedman, David Noel. “The Nine Commandments.” Presented at the Proceedings of the 36th Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries, La Jolla, CA, June 24-27, 2001.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Stone, Michael E., Aryeh Amihay, and Vered Hillel, eds. Noah and His Book(s). Early Judaism and Its Literature 28, ed. Judith H. Newman. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Dimant, Devorah. “Noah in Early Jewish Literature.” In Biblical Figures Outside the Bible, edited by Michael E. Stone and Theodore A. Bergren, 123-50. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2584]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1998-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Cohn, Norman. Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Bergsma, John Sietze, and Scott Walker Hahn. “Noah’s Nakedness and the Curse on Canaan (Genesis 9:20-27).” Journal of Biblical Literature 124, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 25-40.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Peterson, Daniel C. “Notes on Historicity and Inerrancy.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 197–215. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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Some believe that historicity and inerrancy in scripture are the same. By this argument, when a portion of scripture is found to have errors, the entire record is considered neither historical nor accurate. However, nothing in this imperfect world is inerrant, and although the authors of the scriptural records were prophets and called of God to write their portion of the scriptures, they were not perfect—no one is. So although the authors were not inerrant, their writings are nonetheless historical. By academic standards the scriptures fulfill all the criteria for historically accurate records. With the human errors accounted for, the scriptures are reliable historically and accurate in their testimony of the doctrines of the gospel and the mission of Jesus Christ.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

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Wevers, John William. Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Study Resources for the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Genesis

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Clark, David L. Of Heaven and Earth: Reconciling Scientific Thought with LDS Theology. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1998.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Maxwell, Neal A. Of One Heart: The Glory of the City of Enoch. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1980.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

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Jackson, Kent P., and Scott H. Faulring. “Old Testament Manuscript 3: An Early Transcript of the Book of Moses.” Mormon Historical Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 113–144.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

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Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1983.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. “Old Testament Revision 1.” The Joseph Smith Papers.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

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Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. “Old Testament Revision 2.” The Joseph Smith Papers.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

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Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. Old Testament Seminary Student Material. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2018.

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Peterson, Daniel C. “On the Motif of the Weeping God in Moses 7.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, 285—317. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Silverman, Jason M., ed. Opening Heaven’s Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Context and Reception. Bible Intersections 12. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2013.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Young, Brigham. “The Order of Enoch.” Remarks delivered in the Bowery, Logan City, Sunday Morning, 29 June 1873. In Journal of Discourses 16, 122–123. Liverpool and London, England: Latter-day Saints Book Depot, 1853–1886. Reprint, Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1966.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2674]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1966-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 2776  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Sorenson, John L. “Origin of Man.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, vol. 3. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
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Keywords: Adam (Prophet); Creation; Eve; Evolution; Fall of Adam

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Carmack, Stanford A. “The Original English of the Book of Moses and What It Indicates about the Book’s Authorship.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 2. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 631–702. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “Book of Moses English: A Comparison of Grammatical Usage Found in Old Testament Revision 1” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Paulsen-Reed, Amy Elizabeth. The Origins of the Apocalypse of Abraham. Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Theology in the subject of the Hebrew Bible. Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2016.
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The Apocalypse of Abraham, a pseudepigraphon only extant in a fourteenth century Old Church Slavonic manuscript, has not received much attention from scholars of Ancient Judaism, due in part to a lack of readily available information regarding the history and transmission of the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. This dissertation examines the historical context of these works with the aim of assessing the probability that they contain ancient Jewish material. The rest of the dissertation is focused on the Apocalypse of Abraham specifically, discussing its date and provenance, original language, probability that it comes from Essene circles, textual unity, and Christian interpolations. This includes treatments of the issue of free will, determinism, and predestination in the Apocalypse of Abraham as well as the methodological complexities in trying to distinguish between early Jewish and Christian works. It also provides an in-depth comparison of the Apocalypse of Abraham with 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch and takes up the question of the social setting for these texts based on relevant precedents set by recent scholars of midrash who seek to probe the “socio-cultural and historical situatedness” of midrashic texts. This discussion includes a survey of parallels between the content of the Apocalypse of Abraham and rabbinic literature to support the argument that a sharp distinction between apocalyptic ideas and what later became rabbinic tradition did not exist in the time between 70 and 135 C.E. Overall, this dissertation argues that the Apocalypse of Abraham is an early Jewish document written during the decades following the destruction of the Second Temple. While seeking to warn its readers of the dangers of idolatry in light of the apocalyptic judgment still to come, it also provides sustained exegesis of Genesis 15, which gives cohesion to the entire document.

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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

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Feldman, Louis H., James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds. Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture. 3 vols. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 2013.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Cox, Paul Alan. “Paley’s Stone, Creationism, Eschatology, and Conservation.” In Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment, edited by George B. Handley, Terry B. Ball, and Stephen L. Peck, 33–42. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2006.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Spackman, T. Benjamin. “A Paradoxical Preservation of Faith: LDS Creation Accounts and the Composite Nature of Revelation.” Paper presented at the 2019 FairMormon Conference. August, 2019.

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 1.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, October 1975, 78–84.
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A discussion of the Book of Enoch as extracts of “The Writings of Moses.”

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1008]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 10.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, March 1977, 86–90.
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This exciting and penetrating comparison of the Joseph Smith book of Enoch, with four known variant manuscripts of that ancient work, provides yet another evidence of the Prophet’s inspiration and the scope of his vision in the great work of the Restoration.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1017]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 11.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, April 1977, 78–89.
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This follows the idea that Enoch had great cosmological visions.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1018]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 12.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, June 1977, 78–90.
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The deliberate wickedness of the people at Enoch’s time created a moral turbulence that was reflected in chaotic nature, such as earthquakes.
In this installment, Brother Nibley first concludes his discussion of the veil, then uses scriptural sources from the book of Moses and nonscriptural accounts by apochryphal writers of texts not available to Joseph Smith to give us an intriguing image of Enoch’s holy city.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1019]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 13.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, August 1977, 64–65.
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A discussion of the translation of the Dead Sea Scroll book of Enoch.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1020]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 2.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, December 1975, 72–76.
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With the October 1975 issue, the Ensign began a series on the book of Enoch authored by Hugh Nibley. As Part 1 recounts, early Christian writers knew and respected the book of Enoch, but biblical scholars neglected it in scorn after the excitement of the Reformation was over. However, James Bruce, exploring the sources of the Nile in 1773, brought back three copies. Part 2 describes the critical response—or lack of it—to these documents and then turns to examining the four versions of the book of Enoch against which Joseph Smith’s writing must be judged.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1009]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 3.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, February 1976, 64–68.
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This section of the examination of Enoch compared Joseph Smith’s book of Enoch step-by-step with four main classes of documents, commonly designated as the following: I Enoch (the Ethiopic texts, beginning with the three brought to England by Bruce in 1773), II Enoch (also called the Secrets of Enoch in Old Slavonic), III Enoch (Enoch texts in Greek), and scattered Hebrew and Aramaic Enoch fragments. Since these are to serve as checks on the reliability of the Prophet Joseph, the qualifications of each should be briefly considered.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1010]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 4.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, March 1976, 62–66.
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Discusses how Christian Enoch’s writings are.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1011]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 5.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, April 1976, 60–64.
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Suggests that what is written on earth is written in heaven and discusses how that comes into play with writing spiritual matters that the Lord has commanded be written.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1012]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 6.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, July 1976, 64–68.
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The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.
A study of the book of Enoch as a recording of sacred matters.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1013]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 7.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, October 1976, 76–81.
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Suggests parallels to Moses 1, which lie far beyond the reach of coincidence or daydreaming. The number of details and the order in which they occur make it perfectly clear that we are dealing with specific works of great antiquity which come from a common source. To show what they mean, they compare Moses’s, Abraham’s, and Adam’s confrontations with Satan.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 8.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, December 1976, 73–78.
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The purpose of these articles is to (1) call attention to some of the long-ignored aspects of the Joseph Smith account of Enoch in the book of Moses and in the Inspired Version of Genesis and (2) provide at the same time some of the evidence that establishes the authenticity of that remarkable text. Contemporary learning offered few checks to the imagination of Joseph Smith; the enthusiasm of his followers presented none.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1015]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 9.” In A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch series, Ensign, February 1977, 66–75.
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Addresses the dangers of oversimplifying the scriptures and attempts to look at the Book of Mormon without such oversimplification.

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

ID = [1016]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1975-10-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:24

Nibley, Hugh W. “Patriarchy and Matriarchy.” In Blueprints for Living: Perspectives for Latter-day Saint Women 1, edited by Maren M. Mouritsen, 44–61. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1980.
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Reprinted in Old Testament and Related Studies, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 1. 87–114.
An address given at the BYU Women’s Conference, 1 February 1980.

See also: “Patriarchy and Matriarchy” (1986)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Marriage
Old Testament Topics > Women in the Old Testament
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Abraham > Characters > Abraham, Sarah, Abram, Sarai
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Zion, Babylon > Patriarchy, Matriarchy

ID = [809]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1980-01-01  Collections:  moses,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:22

Millet, Robert L., and Kent P. Jackson, eds. The Pearl of Great Price. Studies in Scripture: Volume 2. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1989.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

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Baldridge, Kenneth W., and O. Glade Hunsaker. “Pearl of Great Price.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 3:1072. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

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Moss, James R. “The Pearl of Great Price and the Conversion Process.” In The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr., 33–56. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.
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When the Lord taught the parable of the pearl of great price (Matthew 13:45–46), he could have had direct reference to the great teachings on missionary work found within the Pearl of Great Price we value today as one of our choicest scriptural records. Contained within the histories, visions, doctrinal teachings and other inspired revelations in this standard work are some of the most important foundations and principles of missionary work for this and previous dispensations. As we learn of them our appreciation for the importance of sharing the gospel with others grows, and our understanding of the role of each member of the Church in taking the gospel to the nations of the earth deepens.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Abrahamic Covenant
RSC Topics > A — C > Conversion
RSC Topics > A — C > Covenant
RSC Topics > L — P > Missionary Work
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

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Matthews, Robert J. “The Pearl of Great Price Encounters the Modern World—An Appraisal.” In The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr., 13-32. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

ID = [4719]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 38767  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Seminaries and Institutes of Religion. The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual, Religion 327. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Brigham Young University. Pearl of Great Price Symposium: A Centennial Presentation, November 22, 1975. Robert J. Matthews, Chairman. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University [The Department of Ancient Scripture], 1976.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Millet, Robert L., and Kent P. Jackson, eds. The Pearl of Great Price. Studies in Scripture: Volume 2. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 19895.

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Peterson, H. Donl. The Pearl of Great Price: A History and Commentary. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1987.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

ID = [2524]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1987-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Draper, Richard D., S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes. The Pearl of Great Price: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

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Baldridge, Kenneth W. “Pearl of Great Price: Contents and Publication.” In Latter-day Saint Essentials: Readings from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. John W. Welch and Devan Jensen, 70–1. Provo, UT: BYU Studies and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [4715]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 4090  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Peterson, H. Donl, and Charles D. Tate Jr., eds. The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University and Deseret Book, 1989.
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“For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pas the immortality and eternal life of man.” This profound doctrinal statement is one of many contained in the Pearl of Great Price, the smallest of the standard works and the last to be canonized. Studying that scripture in depth adds immensely to our understanding of the Lord’s eternal plan. Comprising addresses delivered at a symposium on the Pearl of Great Price, this book combines the insights and testimonies of thirteen gospel scholars. All things were created to bear witness of God. As here shown, the Pearl of Great Price does that in many ways.

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Bushman, Richard Lyman. “The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture.” BYU Studies Quarterly 59, no. 4 (2020): 181-84.

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ID = [4681]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 11841  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Givens, Terryl L., and Brian M. Hauglid. The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [2471]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Stokes, Adam O. “The People of Canaan: A New Reading of Moses 7.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 47 (2021): 159-180.
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Abstract: Moses 7 is one of the most famous passages in all of Restoration scripture. It is also one of the most problematic in regard to its description of the people of Canaan as black (v. 8) and as a people who were not preached to by the patriarch Enoch (v. 12). Later there is also a mention of “the seed of Cain,” who also are said to be black (v. 22). This article examines the history of interpretation of Moses 7 and proposes an alternative understanding based on a close reading of the text. In contrast to traditional views, it argues that the reason for Enoch’s not preaching to the people of Canaan stems not from any sins the people had committed or from divine disfavor but from the racial prejudice of the other sons of Adam, the “residue of the people” (vv. 20, 22) who ironically are the only ones mentioned as “cursed” in the text (v. 20). In looking at the implications of this passage for the present-day Restoration, this article notes parallels between Enoch’s hesitancy and various attitudes toward black priesthood ordination throughout the Restoration traditions, including the Community of Christ where the same type of hesitancy existed. This article argues that, rather than being indicative of divine disfavor toward persons of African descent, this tendency is a response to the racist attitudes of particular eras, whether the period of the Old Testament patriarchs or the post-bellum American South. Nevertheless, God can be seen as working through and within particular contexts and cultures to spread the gospel to all of Adam’s children irrespective of race.

[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to publish this article from an author outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but from a related Restoration faith tradition. Adam Stokes was formerly with the Community of Christ and currently is an ordained Apostle and Elder in The Church of Jesus Christ with the Elijah Message—The Assured Way [Page 160]of the Lord. Adam notes that “while the Book of Moses is not officially part of my church’s canon, my own personal beliefs still accept the Joseph Smith translation/Inspired Version as inspired and sacred scripture and I read it often.” We are grateful for the faithful insights Elder Stokes kindly provides for the Book of Moses.]

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Philo. Philo. 12 vols. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939–1953.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2525]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1939-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Kraft, Robert A. “Philo (Josephus, Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon) on Enoch.” Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 13 (1978): 253–257.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [2616]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Millet, Robert L., and Robert J. Matthews. Plain and Precious Truths Restored: The Doctrinal and Historical Significance of the Joseph Smith Translation. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1995.
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Papers presented at the BYU Symposium ‘As Translated Correctly’: Joseph Smith’s Translations of the Bible, January 13–14, 1995

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
Old Testament Topics > Symposia and Collections of Essays

ID = [29991]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 10:12:44

Matthews, Robert J. “A Plainer Translation”: Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible—A History and Commentary. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1975.

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

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Marsh, W. Jeffrey, and Thomas E. Sherry. “Precious Truths Restored: Joseph Smith Translation Changes Not Included in Our Bible.” Religious Educator 5, no. 2 (2004): 56–74.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible

ID = [2619]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 43889  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Sherry, Thomas E., and W. Jeffrey Marsh. “Precious Truths Restored: Joseph Smith Translation Changes Not Included in Our Bible.” The Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 5, no. 2 (2004): 57–74.
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The more we are acquainted with the life and ministry of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the more evident it becomes that Elder John Taylor did not overstate reality when he said that “Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it” (D&C 135:3). This passage goes on to specify that it was the abundance of revelation and scripture given Joseph Smith that particularly qualified him for such a lofty epithet.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Bible
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Edition of the Bible
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

ID = [2650]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  d-c,moses  Size: 43034  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Jackson, Kent P. “Preface.” In The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts, vii–x. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [4700]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 7945  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “Preface and Introduction.” In Interpreter Foundation blog. Reprint from In God’s Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen, Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.

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Parry, Donald W. Preserved in Translation: Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020.
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It should come as no surprise that the Book of Mormon reads like an ancient Hebrew book. After all, its story begins in the world of the Old Testament and its chroniclers were literate in some form of Hebrew. What is surprising is that there are so many Hebraisms in the book—and that they have survived translation into English! Many of these remnants that persist in the text make for odd English but are perfectly sound Biblical Hebrew. Go to a Book of Mormon Central review of this book HERE. ISBN 978-1-9443-9495-0

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2521]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Welch, John W., and Jackson Abhau. “The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also: “The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2721]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 2020-09-19  Collections:  moses,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Welch, John W., and Jackson Abhau. “The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 163–256. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “The Priestly Interests of Moses the Levite” (2020)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [4640]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses,welch  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Elieson, Marc S. Principles of the Pearl of Great Price: A Topical Commentary. Lubbock, TX: Enterprise Books, 2001.
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An essay published posthumously in which England wrestles with what he believed to be a disturbing trend in Mormonism away from what he saw as Joseph Smith’s and Brigham Young’s doctrine of God as a personal being engaged with us in a tragic universe not of his own making and toward a more absolutistic God similar to the teachings about deity held by Evangelical Christianity.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

ID = [2461]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  brigham,moses  Size: 52629  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Welch, John W., and Donald W. Parry, eds. Proceedings of the Chiasmus Jubilee Conference at BYU, August 15–16, 2017, sponsored by Book of Mormon Central and BYU Studies. BYU Studies Quarterly 59 - Special Supplement, 2020.
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This book comprises fourteen of the papers presented at “Chiasmus: An Open Conference on the State of the Art,” held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, on August 15–16, 2017. That date marked the fiftieth anniversary of events in Germany and Austria which soon grew into the publication of Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis (Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1981), edited by John W. Welch. Generated forty years ago, that widely-cited volume with a preface by David Noel Freedman featured contributions by authors including Yehuda T. Radday, Jonah Frankel, Bezael Porten, Wilford G. E. Watson, John W. Welch, and Robert F. Smith, about chiasmus in Ugaritic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and other literatures.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2558]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses,welch  Size: 816019  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P., and Peter M. Jasinski. “The Process of Inspired Translation: Two Passages Translated Twice in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.” BYU Studies 42, no. 2 (2003): 35–64.
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Since 1996, researchers from Brigham Young University—with the assistance of new photographs, scanned images, and much hands-on examination of the documents—have been engaged in a careful study of the text written on the original manuscripts of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. The work has yielded the publication of a large facsimile transcription of all the original manuscript pages and much new information about how Joseph Smith prepared the text. Among the many new discoveries resulting from this research is an enhanced understanding of the sequence and chronology of the Prophet’s work.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2613]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 75733  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Clark, E. Douglas. “A Prologue to Genesis: Moses 1 in Light of Jewish Traditions.” BYU Studies Quarterly 45, no. 1 (2006): 129-42.
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Referring to ancient and long-lost scripture that Joseph Smith restored, Wilford Woodruff declared it to be part of “the rich treasures that are revealed unto us in the last days.” One such treasure is Moses chapter 1, a scriptural jewel we have hardly begun to appreciate but whose luster has become more apparent in light of various ancient texts and traditions that have emerged since Joseph Smith’s day. So striking are the parallels as to recall Joseph’s own prophecy that “the world will prove Joseph Smith a true prophet by circumstantial evidence.”

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

ID = [4671]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2006-01-01  Collections:  byu-studies,moses,old-test  Size: 36208  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Times and Seasons. “The Prophecy of Enoch.” Times and Seasons Vol. 2, no. 1: November 1, 1840.

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Wayment, Thomas A., and Haley Wilson-Lemmon. “A Recovered Resource: The Use of Adam Clarke’s Bible Commentary in Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation.” In Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects and the Making of Mormon Christianity, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Michael Hubbard MacKay and Brian M. Hauglid, 262–284. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2020.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [2672]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Eyring, Henry. Reflections of a Scientist. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1983.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

ID = [4472]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1983-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Church Educational System(CES). Religion 327: The Pearl of Great Price Student Manual. Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.
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The Pearl of Great Price is a book of scripture, and the Lord will bless you as you carefully read and ponder the sacred words found therein. This student manual provides statements and commentary to support and enhance your study of the Pearl of Great Price.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

ID = [2452]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Church Educational System(CES). Religion 327: The Pearl of Great Price Teacher Manual. Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2017.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

ID = [2453]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2017-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Wilkens, Jens. “Remarks on the Manichaean Book of Giants: Once Again on Mahaway’s Mission to Enoch.” In Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, edited by Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Enrico Morano. Wissenschlaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 360, ed. Jörg Frey, 213-29. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

ID = [4499]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Howard, Richard P. Restoration Scriptures. 2nd ed. Independence, MO: Herald House, 1995.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

ID = [2484]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:34

Kulik, Alexander. Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward the Original of the Apocalypse of Abraham. Text-Critical Studies 3, edited by James R. Adair, Jr. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

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 — Primary Sources

ID = [2490]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2004-01-01  Collections:  abraham,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Townsend, Colby J. “Returning to the Sources: Integrating Textual Criticism in the Study of Early Mormon Texts and History.” Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 10, no. 1 (2019): 55–85.
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As historians engage with literary texts, they should ask a few important questions. What is the text that I am using in my research? What is the manuscript tradition from which the manuscript or text evolved? How does that evolution inform the specific period I am studying? Did it evolve orally or in written form? And are there variations that have been handed down through time and through tradition that may provide greater context or clarity to my research? Implicit in these questions is an interest in authenticity and accuracy. As literary texts evolve and are shared over time, there are multiple factors that may lead a text away from its earliest forms, such as when a narrative is orally transmitted over multiple generations and then recorded in writing or when a manuscript is repeatedly copied by hand and errors are introduced into the text. The attempt to ascertain the earliest forms of a text is known as textual criticism. This branch of scholarship started in earnest at the beginning of the European Renaissance from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, and led to the European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this article I will argue that scholars of Mormon history have not yet taken advantage of the historical insights that textual criticism has to offer, as a means of persuading the academic community to embrace this important methodology.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [2658]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 68739  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Barney, Kevin L. “Review of David Bokovoy Authoring the Old Testament.” By Common Consent, February 23, 2014.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2566]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-02-23  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nickelsburg, George W. E. “Review of ‘The Older Testament, by Margaret Barker’” Journal of Biblical Literature 109, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 335–337.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses

ID = [2630]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1990-06-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Townsend, Colby J. “Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 41–71.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4494]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-10-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Jacob A. Rennaker, and David J. Larsen. “Revisiting the Forgotten Voices of Weeping in Moses 7: A Comparison with Ancient Texts.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 2 (2012): 41-71.
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Abstract: The LDS Book of Moses is remarkable in its depiction of the suffering of the wicked at the time of the Flood. According to this text, there are three parties directly involved in the weeping: God (Moses 7:28; cf. v. 29), the heavens (Moses 7:28, 37), and Enoch (Moses 7:41, 49). In addition, a fourth party, the earth, mourns—though does not weep—for her children (Moses 7:48–49). The passages that speak of the weeping God and the mourning earth have received the greatest share of attention by scholars. The purpose of this article is to round out the previous discussion so as to include new insights and ancient parallels to the two voices of weeping that have been largely forgotten—that of Enoch and that of the heavens. ((An expanded and revised version of material contained in this study will appear as part of Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and David J. Larsen, Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel (Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Publishing, forthcoming, 2014). All translations from non-English sources are by the first author unless otherwise specifically noted.)) .

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Townsend, Colby J. “Rewriting Eden with the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America.” Master of Arts Thesis. Utah State University, 2019.
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The colonists living in the new United States after the American War for Independence were faced with the problem of forming new identities once they could no longer recognize themselves, collectively or individually, as subjects of Great Britain. After the French Revolution American politicians began to weed out the more radical political elements of the newly formed United States, particularly by painting one of the revolution’s biggest defenders, Thomas Paine, as unworthy of the attention he received during the American War for Independence, and fear ran throughout the states that an anarchic revolution like the French Revolution could bring the downfall of the nation. State, local, and regional organizations sprang up to fight Jacobinism, the legendary secret group of murderers and anarchists that fought against the French government.

This distressing situation gave rise to new literature that sought to describe the “real” origins and background of Jacobinism in the War in Heaven and in Eden, and a new movement against Jacobinism was established. Fears about the organization of secret societies did not wane in the decades after the French Revolution, but worsened in the last half of the 1820s when a Freemason, William Morgan, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in connection to an exposé of Masonry he had written. Most Americans assumed that Freemasons had abducted and murdered Morgan in order to keep their oaths and rites secret.

One influential early American who was influenced by this socio-historical was Joseph Smith, Jr., the founding prophet of Mormonism. Smith interpreted the Eden narrative in light of the movement against secret societies, and literary motifs common to anti-Jacobin literature during the period provided language and interpretive strategies for understanding the Eden narrative that would influence how Smith produced his new scripture. Only a few months after the publication of the Book of Mormon Smith edited the version of Eden found there into the text of the Bible itself and made the biblical narrative conform to the version found in the Book of Mormon through his own revisions and additions.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Jacob
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Huntington, Ray L., and Brian M. Hauglid. “Robert J. Matthews and His Work with the Joseph Smith Translation.” The Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 5, no. 2 (2004): 23–47.
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In 1979, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published its edition of the King James Version of the Bible. The Scriptures Publication Committee decided to include portions of the Joseph Smith Translation in the new edition. For the first time, Latter-day Saints had access to Joseph’s inspired work in their own personal scriptures. Many Latter-day Saints may be unaware that the efforts to include the JST material in the new edition of the Bible were pioneered by Robert J. Matthews, former dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. Beginning in 1953, Brother Matthews began a letter-writing campaign to the RLDS Church (now called the Community of Christ), requesting permission to study the original JST manuscripts. Through his sustained efforts, the RLDS Church gave Brother Matthews permission to examine the manuscripts.

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Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

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Holland, David F. Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Latter-day Saint Canon

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Sacred Vestments.” In Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, vol. 12. Salt Lake City/Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1992.
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In Temple and Cosmos, Brother Nibley explains the relationship of the House of the Lord to the cosmos. In Temple, the first part of the volume, he focuses on the nature, meaning, and history of the temple, discussing such topics as sacred vestments, the circle and the square, and the symbolism of the temple and its ordinances. In the second part, Cosmos, he discusses the cosmic context of the temple-the expanding gospel, apocryphal writings, religion and history, the genesis of the written word, cultural diversity in the universal church, and the terrible questions: Where did we come from? Why are we here? and Where are we going?
This lecture was originally accompanied by slides. It was circulated in two different editions in 1986 and 1987 and was available in a much expanded version, including illustrations, in 1988.

See also: “Sacred Vestments” (1975)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Temples > Ancient Temples > Sacred Vestments

ID = [2156]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1992-01-01  Collections:  moses,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:32

Peterson, H. Donl. “Sacred Writings from the Tombs of Egypt.” In The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr., 137–54. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [4721]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 38107  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Wenham, Gordon J. “Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story.” In I Studied Inscriptions Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11, Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, Volume 4, edited by Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumura, 399–404. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

ID = [2673]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Lewis, John S. “The Scale of Creation in Space and Time.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 71-80.
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Abstract: The accounts of creation in Genesis, Moses, and Abraham as well as in higher endowments of knowledge given to the faithful are based on visions in which the seer lacked the vocabulary to describe and the knowledge to interpret what he saw and hence was obliged to record his experiences in the imprecise language available to him. Modern attempts to explain accounts of these visions frequently make use of concepts and terminology that are completely at odds with the understanding of ancient peoples: they project anachronistic concepts that the original seer would not have recognized. This article reviews several aspects of the creation stories in scripture for the purpose of distinguishing anachronistic modern reinterpretations from the content of the original vision.
This essay derives from a presentation made at the 2013 Interpreter Symposium on Science and Religion: Cosmos, Earth, and Man on November 9, 2013. Details on the event, including links to videos, are available at journal.interpreterfoundation.org. An expanded version of the symposium proceedings will be published in hardcopy and digital formats.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Science and Genesis: A Personal View.” In Interpreter Foundation blog. Reprint from Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man , edited by David H. Bailey, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, John S. Lewis, Gregory L. Smith, and Michael R. Stark. Orem, UT, and Salt Lake City: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016. Reprinted December 2, 2019.

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Bailey, David H., Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, John H. Lewis, Gregory L. Smith, and Michael L. Stark, eds. Science and Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth, and Man. Interpreter Science and Mormonism Symposia 1. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016.
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This book features the personal perspectives of prominent LDS scientists addressing the theme of “Cosmos, Earth, and Man.” Many of these were drawn from the first Interpreter Symposium on Science and Mormonism, held in Provo, Utah on 9 November 2013. In the pages of this book, readers will appreciate the concise and colorful summaries of the state-of-the-art in scientific research relating to these topics and will gain a deeper appreciation of the unique contributions of LDS doctrine to the ongoing conversation.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Hess, Wilford M., Raymond T. Matheny, and Donlu DeWitt Thayer. Science and Religion: Toward a More Useful Dialogue. 2 vols. Geneva, IL: Paladin House, 1979.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Paul, Erich Robert. Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Rhodes, Michael D. “The Scriptural Accounts of the Creation: A Scientific Perspective.” In Converging Paths to Truth, ed. Michael D. Rhodes and J. Ward Moody, 123–50. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2011.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the scriptural accounts of the Creation from a scientific point of view with particular emphasis on physics and astronomy, although of necessity I will also have to deal to some extent with biology, chemistry, and geology. The views expressed here are my own and are not meant to represent the views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Brigham Young University. They are a distillation of my thoughts and conclusions over two decades of teaching and research.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

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Faulconer, James E. “Scripture as Incarnation.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 17–61. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001. Reprint, in Faulconer, J. E. Faith, Philosophy, Scripture. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, 2010, 151–202.
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Today the modernist view of history in which texts only represent events is so predominant that most Latter-day Saints automatically apply it to the question of scriptural historicity. Unfortunately, historical scholarship rarely lines up with our understanding of scripture as well as we would like. Problems arise when we use modernist tools to examine scripture written by premoderns, who considered their writing not as mere representation but as incarnation—an embodiment of the symbolic ordering of the world. The premodernist reading of the scriptures more accurately reflects Latter-day Saint beliefs: whereas modernism would use reason to understand history (and thus the Divine in history, i.e., scripture), premodernism uses divinely revealed scripture as well as ritual, ritual objects, and ritual language to give order to history. Instead of examining scripture as just another element of history, premoderns consider scripture to be the defining element in history.
The historicity of scripture is important to most Christians and especially to Latter-day Saints. [1] Christians disagree among themselves about how to understand scriptural history, but few deny that, in some important sense, Christian scripture is historical. However, given the challenges to scriptural history, challenges that are especially strong for Latter-day Saints who take the Book of Mormon to be historical, what are we to make of the claim that scriptures are history? Given those challenges, is it possible to understand scripture as literal history? The answer to that question—positive, I will argue—lies in answering the question of what we mean by history.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > L — P > Plan of Salvation
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

ID = [2588]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2010-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “ScripturePlus Commentary Minutes on Genesis and the Book of Moses.” In ScripturePlus from Book of Mormon Central. English and Spanish.
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English and Spanish

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Non-English Resources

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Johnson, Mark J. “Scriptures through the Jeweler’s Lens.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 85-108.
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Review of Terryl Givens with Brian Hauglid, The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). 285 pages. $34.95 (hardback).
Abstract: Among the many revelatory works of Joseph Smith, members and scholars alike seem to give lesser attention to what is found in the Pearl of Great Price. In The Pearl of Greatest Price, Terryl Givens and Brian Hauglid attempt to provide some of the attention that has been lacking. The result is a book that, while spotty in places, provides a good resource that should receive wide exposure in academic circles. Believing members, on the other hand, may find the book lacking or downright questionable because of the secular approach it takes to dealing with scripture understood to have a divine provenance.

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Orlov, Andrei A. 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

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Brayford, Susan, ed. Septuagint Genesis: A Commentary Based on the Greek Text of Codex Alexandrinus. Septuagint Commentary. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Welch, John W. The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple. London: Ashgate, 2018.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Hendel, Ronald S. “The Shape of Utnapishtim’s Ark.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 107, no. 1 (1995): 128-29.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [4601]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1995-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Barlow, Philip L. “Shards of Combat: How Did Satan Seek to Destroy the Agency of Man?” BYU Studies Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2021): 113-26.
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Human beings in other guise lived before the creation of our world. This belief is at once controversial and durable, pervading the history of Western thought and bearing analogues elsewhere. That gods, angels, or other celestial beings rebelled against their superiors or engaged in cosmic conflict prior to earth’s creation is a related concept, widespread in the ancient world. Depictions or allusions to such contests appear in the myths, lore, art, literature, and sacred texts of Babylon, Egypt, Israel, Persia, Greece, Rome, far-flung tribal religions, and elsewhere. In certain cases, the older traditions endure even to the present, as in Sufi (Muslim) expressions of Iblis’s rebellion against Allah.

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Bickmore, Barry R. “‘Show Them unto No Man’” Brigham Young University Studies Quarterly 62, no. 1 (2023): 29.

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Bickmore, Barry R. “‘Show Them unto No Man’” Brigham Young University Studies Quarterly 62, no. 2 (2023): 117.

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Gardner, Brant A. “Silk or Sow’s Ear? The Apologetic use of the If>And Construction.” The Interpreter Foundation website. October 13, 2013.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4809]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2013-10-13  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size: 10403  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Since Hugh Nibley: Remarkable New Findings on Enoch and the Gathering of Zion.” Paper presented at the 2021 FairMormon Conference. August, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Jackson, Kent P. “Some Notes on Joseph Smith and Adam Clarke.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 15-60.
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Abstract: Authors of two recent articles believe they have found evidence that Joseph Smith, in preparing his revision of the Bible, drew ideas from a contemporary Bible commentary by British scholar Adam Clarke. The evidence, however, does not bear out this claim. I believe that none of the examples they provide can be traced to Clarke’s commentary, and almost all of them can be explained easily by other means. The authors do not look at their examples within the broader context of the revisions Joseph Smith made to the Bible, and thus they misinterpret them. Some of the revisions they attribute to Clarke are ones that Joseph Smith had made repeatedly before he arrived at the passages where they believe he got ideas from Clarke. In addition, there is a mountain of material in Clarke that is not reflected in the Joseph Smith Translation, and there is a mountain of material in the Joseph Smith Translation that cannot be explained by reference to Clarke. The few overlaps that do exist are vague, superficial, and coincidental.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

ID = [3467]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64363  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:41

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Sorting Out the Sources in Scripture.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 9 (2014): 215-272.
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Review of David E. Bokovoy, Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis-Deuteronomy. Contemporary Studies in Scripture. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2014. 272 pp. $26.95 (paperback); $70.00 (hardcover).
Abstract: To date, LDS scholars have largely ignored the important but rather complex questions about how primary sources may have been authored and combined to form the Bible as we have it today. David Bokovoy’s book, one of a projected series of volumes on the authorship of the Old Testament, is intended to rectify this deficiency, bringing the results of scholarship in Higher Criticism into greater visibility within the LDS community. Though readers may not agree in every respect with the book’s analysis and results, particularly with its characterization of the Books of Moses and Abraham as “inspired pseudepigrapha,” Bokovoy has rendered an important service by applying his considerable expertise in a sincere quest to understand how those who accept Joseph Smith as a prophet of God can derive valuable interpretive lessons from modern scholarship.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Leviticus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Scriptures > Deuteronomy
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [4309]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 64711  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:56

Reeves, John C., and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 2 vols. Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 1. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

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Wyatt, Nicolas. Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy.” In Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of the Expound Symposium, 14 May 2011, edited by Matthew B. Brown, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson. Temple on Mount Zion Series 1, 71–142. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 37 (2020): 163-236.
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Abstract: On the Mount of Olives, just prior to the culminating events of the Passion week, Jesus gave one of the most controversial prophecies of the New Testament, saying, among other things, that the “abomination of desolation” will “stand in the holy place.” In Joseph Smith-Matthew the Prophet renders this passage in a way that radically changes its meaning. Rather than describing how the “abomination of desolation” will “stand in the holy place,” the jst version enjoins the apostles to “stand in the holy place” when the “abomination of desolation” appears. Though several Latter-day Saint scholars have offered interpretations and personal applications of these words as given in modern scripture, it appears that no one has heretofore seriously explored how this change in meaning might be explained and defended. This article will show that other passages in the Bible, in connection with the light shed by Jewish midrash and contemporary scholarship, demonstrate that the idea behind Joseph Smith’s revision of the passage, far from being a modern invention, reverberates throughout the religious thought of earlier times. The article concludes with an appendix that tries to draw out a possibility for a specific interpretation of the prophecy about the “abomination of desolation” at the time of Christ and in the latter days.
[Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.See Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy,” in Ancient Temple Worship: Proceedings of The Expound Symposium 14 May 2011, ed. Matthew B. Brown, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Ricks, and John S. Thompson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014), 71–142. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/ancient-temple-worship/.].

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Nibley, Hugh W. “A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch.” A series of articles in the Ensign in 13 parts running from Oct 1975 through Aug 1977.
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Reprinted in Enoch the Prophet, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 2. 91–301.
A discussion of the worldview and scenario of the Hopis. Editor’s note: With the October 1975 issue, the Ensign began a series on the book of Enoch authored by Hugh Nibley. As Part 1 recounts, early Christian writers knew and respected the book of Enoch, but biblical scholars neglected it in scorn after the excitement of the Reformation was over. However, James Bruce, exploring the sources of the Nile in 1773, brought back three copies. Part 2 describes the critical response—or lack of it—to these documents and then turns to examining the four versions of the book of Enoch against which Joseph Smith’s writing must be judged.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch

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Reynolds, Noel B., and Jeff Lindsay. “‘Strong Like Unto Moses’: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

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““Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates” (2021)
““Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

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Lindsay, Jeff, and Noel B. Reynolds. “‘Strong Like unto Moses’: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44 (2021): 1-92.
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Abstract: Over 30 years ago, Noel Reynolds compared matching non-Biblical phrases in the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon. Based on this analysis, Reynolds proposed a possible connection between the Book of Moses and hypothetical material on the brass plates that may have influenced some Book of Mormon authors. Reynolds’s work, “The Brass Plates Version of Genesis,” provided potentially plausible explanations for additional relationships between the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon that arose in two later Jeff Lindsay studies: one on the Book of Mormon account of Lehi_1’s trail and another on the Book of Mormon’s intriguing use of the ancient theme of rising from the dust. The additional findings and connections presented here strengthen the original case Reynolds made for the ancient roots of the Book of Moses, roots that could have extended to the brass plates and then on to the Book of Mormon. Critics might dismiss such connections by asserting that Joseph merely drew from the Book of Mormon when drafting the Book of Moses; however, this view overlooks significant evidence indicating that the direction of dependence is the other way around. In light of the combined evidence now available, it is time to reconsider Reynolds’s original proposal and recognize the possibility that the Book of Moses is more deeply rooted in antiquity that many have recognized in the past.[Editor’s Note: This article is based on a presentation by Reynolds and Lindsay made at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference, Provo, Utah, Sept. 18–19, 2020, presented by The Interpreter Foundation, Brigham Young University Department of Ancient Scripture, Book of Mormon Central, and FairMormon. A more detailed version, along with an edited transcript of the question-and-answer session that followed the presentation, can be found in the forthcoming conference proceedings.].

See also:
“‘Strong Like Unto Moses’: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates” (2020)
““Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

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Lindsay, Jeff, and Noel B. Reynolds. “‘Strong Like unto Moses’: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 315–420. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also:
“‘Strong Like Unto Moses’: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates” (2020)
““Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates” (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

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Hess, Richard S. Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1–11. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Study Resources for the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Genesis

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, ed. Studies of the Books of Moses and Abraham. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
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This compilation of fascinating articles on the books of Moses and Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Antonio Lebolo, the mummies, and the papyri; other topics related to the book of Abraham and its origins; the Kirtland Egyptian Papers; and insights into the ministries of Moses and Enoch. Contents “A Prologue to Genesis: Moses 1 in Light of Jewish Traditions” E. Douglas Clark “Behold I” Kent P. Jackson “The Narrative Call Pattern in the Prophetic Commission of Enoch (Moses 6)” Stephen D. Ricks “Changes in the Book of Moses and Their Implications upon a Concept of Revelation” James R. Harris “Robert J. Matthews and the RLDS Church’s Inspired Version of the Bible” Thomas E. Sherry “Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham” Hugh Nibley “Fragment Found in Salt Lake City” Hugh Nibley “Joseph Smith and the Lebolo Egyptian Papyri” James R. Clark “A Letter Regarding the Acquisition of the Book of Abraham” Christopher Lund “As Things Stand at the Moment” Hugh Nibley “The St. Louis Museum and the Two Egyptian Mummies and Papyri” Walter L. Whipple “Human Sacrifice and the Book of Abraham” William J. Adams Jr. “Abraham in Egypt: A Collation of Evidence for the Case of the Missing Wife” Thomas W. Mackay “What Is ‘The Book of Breathings’?” Hugh Nibley “A Translation and Commentary of the Joseph Smith Hypocephalus” Michael Dennis Rhodes “The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers” Hugh Nibley “Antonio Lebolo: Excavator of the Book of Abraham” H. Donl Peterson

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Nibley, Hugh W. “Subduing the Earth: Man’s Dominion.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 95–110. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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The essays in this volume, including four on today’s world, were selected by a panel of Hugh Nibley’s colleagues. They are singular in their penetration, their originality, and their vitality. Reaching from the apocalyptic visions of original “treasures in heaven” down to the climax of history, they are more than mind-stretching. The delight of Nibley’s brilliant and sometimes biting prose style imparts a sense of the agelessness of what he calls the “three-act play” of human existence. Written specially for this book, the author’s own “intellectual autobiography,” together with his introductory paragraphs for the various chapters, complete the work of making the book a fitting and permanent record of one of the past outstanding historians
Ever since the days of the Prophet Joseph, presidents of the Church have appealed to the Saints to be magnanimous and forbearing toward all of God’s creatures. But in the great West, where everything was up for grabs, it was more than human nature could endure to be left out of the great grabbing game, especially when one happened to get there first, as the Mormons often did. One morning, just a week after we had moved into our house on Seventh North, as I was leaving for work, I found a group of shouting, arm-waving boys gathered around the big fir tree in the front yard. They had sticks and stones, and in a state of high excitement were fiercely attacking the lowest branches of the tree, which hung to the ground. Why? I asked. There was a quail in the tree, they said in breathless zeal, a quail! Of course, said I, what is wrong with that? But don’t you see, it is a live quail? A wild one! So they just had to kill it. They were on their way to the old B. Y. High School and were Boy Scouts. Does this story surprise you? What surprised me was when I later went to Chicago and saw squirrels running around the city parks in broad daylight; they would not last a day in Provo. Like Varro’s patrician friends, we have taught our children by precept and example that every living thing exists to be converted into cash, and that whatever would not yield a return should be quickly exterminated to make way for creatures that do. (We have referred to this elsewhere as the Mahan Principle; Moses 5:31.) I have heard influential Latter-day Saints express this philosophy. The earth is our enemy, I was taught does it not bring forth noxious weeds to afflict and torment man? And who cared if his allergies were the result of the Fall, man’s own doing? But one thing worried me: if God were to despise all things beneath Him, as we do, where would that leave us? Inquiring about today, one discovers that many Latter-day Saints feel that the time has come to put an end to the killing.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Adam (Prophet); Cain; Dominion; Enoch (Prophet); Israel; Joseph; Jr.; Moses (Prophet); Noah (Prophet); Smith

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 4
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Adam, Eve
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Stewardship, Creation, Earth, Environment

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Welch, John W. “Symbolism in the Parable of the Willing and Unwilling Two Sons in Matthew 21.” In Let Us Reason Together, edited by J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top, 97–116. Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2016.
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Deeply valuable symbolism is thoroughly embedded in two of Jesus’ parables, both of which begin, “A certain man had two sons.” The more famous of these two is commonly called parable of the prodigal son, found in Luke 15. The less often mentioned can be called the parable of the willing and unwilling two sons, found in Matthew 21. Even people who have written much and taught profoundly about the parables of Jesus have rarely had much to say about this brief text, which is nevertheless freighted with significantly authoritative cargo. In explicating this lesser-known of the two-sons parables, I hope to honor and recognize Robert L. Millet for his consummate willingness to do the will of the Father and to go down this day to work in his vineyard, wherever the needs may be found.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven

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Anderson, Gary A., and Michael E. Stone, eds. A Synopsis of the Books of Adam and Eve. 2nd edition. Society of Biblical Literature: Early Judaism and its Literature, ed. John C. Reeves. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1999.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

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Morales, L. Michael. The Tabernacle Pre-Figured: Cosmic Mountain Ideology in Genesis and Exodus. Biblical Tools and Studies 15, ed. B. Doyle, G. Van Belle, J. Verheyden and K. U. Leuven. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2012.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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al-Kisa’i, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah. Tales of the Prophets (Qisas al-anbiya). Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr. Great Books of the Islamic World, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Chicago: KAZI Publications, 1997.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Hendel, Ronald S. “Tangled Plots in Genesis.” In Fortunate the Eyes that See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman, edited by Astrid B. Beck, Andrew H. Bartelt, Paul R. Raabe and Chris A. Franke, 35-51. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1995.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

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Grossfeld, Bernard, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds. Targum Neofiti 1: An Exegetical Commentary to Genesis including Full Rabbinic Parallels. Brooklyn, NY: Sepher-Hermon Press, 2000.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Grossfeld, Bernard, ed. The Targum Onqelos to Genesis: Translated with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes. Aramaic Bible 6. Edinburgh, Scotland: T & T Clark, 1988.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Maher, Michael, ed. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis. Vol. 1b. Aramaic Bible. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Keller, Roger R. “Teaching the Fall and the Atonement: A Comparative Method.” Religious Educator 5, no. 2 (2004): 101–118.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Atonement of Jesus Christ
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > G — K > Gospel of Jesus Christ

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Ladle, Douglas S. “Teaching the Fall of Adam and Eve.” Religious Educator 5, no. 1 (2004): 41–55.
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Teachers should eagerly anticipate the lesson when their students will learn about the Fall of Adam and Eve. This doctrine is one of three great doctrinal topics that all Latter-day Saints should understand. According to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, “These three are the very pillars of eternity itself. They are the most important events that ever have or will occur in all eternity. They are the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement.”

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Fall of Adam and Eve
RSC Topics > T — Z > Teaching the Gospel

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Nibley, Hugh W. Teachings of the Pearl of Great Price. Published as Ancient Documents and the Pearl of Great Price. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1986.
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Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of ancient scriptures at Brigham Young University, gave the following twenty-six lectures in an honors class on The Pearl of Great Price. This class was videotaped in the Maesar Building during winter semester 1986 and the text was then transcribed and is included here in this book.

See also: “Hugh Nibley’s Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University” (1986)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. Temas del Templo en Libro de Moisés. Spanish translation of Temple Themes in the Book of Moses. Updated ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Publishing, 2014.
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The book of Moses is an ideal starting point for a scripture-based study of temple themes. It is well known, for example, that the LDS temple endowment, like the book of Moses, includes includes the stories of Creation and of Adam and Eve. What is more rarely appreciated, however, is that the relationship between scripture and temple teachings goes two ways. Not only have many of the stories of the book of Moses been included in the endowment, but also, in striking abundance, themes echoing temple architecture, furnishings, ordinances, and covenants have been deeply woven into the text of the book of Moses itself.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Non-English Resources

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Nickelsburg, George W. E. “The Temple According to 1 Enoch.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 7–24.
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What does the Book of Enoch say or not say about the temple, and to which Book of Enoch do I refer? Is it the text called 1 Enoch, or the one known as 2 Enoch, or the so-called 3 Enoch? And all of them discuss or, better, visualize the temple. I restrict myself here to 1 Enoch.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Parry, Jay A., and Donald W. Parry. “The Temple in Heaven: Its Description and Significance.” In Temples of the Ancient World, edited by Donald W. Parry, 515–532. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1994.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Hamblin, William J., and David Rolph Seely, eds. Temple Insights: Proceedings of the Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference ‘The Temple on Mount Zion,’ 22 September 2012. Temple on Mount Zion Series 2. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. Temple Themes in the Book of Moses. Updated ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Publishing, 2014.
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The book of Moses is an ideal starting point for a scripture-based study of temple themes. It is well known, for example, that the LDS temple endowment, like the book of Moses, includes includes the stories of Creation and of Adam and Eve. What is more rarely appreciated, however, is that the relationship between scripture and temple teachings goes two ways. Not only have many of the stories of the book of Moses been included in the endowment, but also, in striking abundance, themes echoing temple architecture, furnishings, ordinances, and covenants have been deeply woven into the text of the book of Moses itself.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Detailed Commentary
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Welch, John W. “The Temple, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Gospel of Matthew.” In Mormonism and the Temple: Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition, edited by Gary A. Anderson, 61–107. Logan, UT: Academy for Temple Studies, 2013.
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Keywords: Intertextuality; Psalms; Sermon at the Temple; Sermon on the Mount; Temple Worship; Theology

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Ricks, Stephen D., and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, eds. The Temple: Past, Present, and Future. Proceedings of the Fifth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 7 November 2020. Temple on Mount Zion 6. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2021.
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The temple is central to Latter-day Saint worship. Through modern revelation Joseph Smith restored the ancient tradition of temples and the ordinances performed therein. Studies of ancient temples can shed much light on latter-day temples and temple worship.Several years ago Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Brown planned a conference entitled The Temple on Mount Zion and began to invite the participants. Matthew Brown loved the temple and temple worship and studied and published on ancient and modern temples. His interests and knowledge were vast. When Matthew passed away very unexpectedly in 2011, his friends decided to organize a series of conferences in his memory. This volume, the sixth in the series, contains proceedings from the fifth conference held in his memory 7 November 2020 and reflects many of the topics that Matthew loved, centered on the theme of the temple: past, present, and future.Chapters relating to the ancient past of the Bible and the Book of Mormon provide new insights into temple themes in Ruth, sacred names of Moses and Jesus Christ, prayer with uplifted hands, temple iconography of cherubim and seraphim, ritual purity in 3 Nephi 19, the rites of the Raqchi Temple in Peru, and sacred space in the early Christian Church. Of great significance to the present era is a chapter on women and the priesthood in the contemporary Church. And looking toward the future is a chapter on the Millennial Temple in Jackson County, Missouri in the context of its historic past.The purpose of the book series is to increase understanding and appreciation of temple rituals and doctrines, and to encourage participation in the redeeming work of family history and temple worship.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 3 Nephi

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Ten Questions with Jeffrey M. Bradshaw [about the Book of Moses].” From The Desk of Kurt Manwaring. September 14, 2020.

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Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Jackson, Kent P. “Ten Questions with Kent P. Jackson [about the Joseph Smith Translation].” In From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring. November 23, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History

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Brigham Young University. Tenth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium: The Pearl of Great Price, January 30, 1982. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University and the Church Educational System, 1985.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Robinson, Stephen E., ed. The Testament of Adam: An Examination of the Syriac and Greek Traditions. Dissertation Series 52, ed. Howard C. Kee and Douglas A. Knight. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Adam and Eve — Primary Sources

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Hendel, Ronald S. The Text of Genesis 1–11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Study Resources for the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Genesis

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Matthew L. Bowen, and Ryan Dahle. “Textual Criticism and the Book of Moses: A Response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the Sources,’ Part 1 of 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 99-162.
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Review of Colby Townsend, “Returning to the Sources: Integrating Textual Criticism in the Study of Early Mormon Texts and History.” Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 10, no. 1 (2019): 55–85, https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/imwjournal/vol10/iss1/6/.
Abstract: Textual criticism tries by a variety of methods to understand the “original” or “best” wording of a document that may exist in multiple, conflicting versions or where the manuscripts are confusing or difficult to read. The present article, Part 1 of a two-part series by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Ryan Dahle, commends Colby Townsend’s efforts to raise awareness of the importance of textual criticism, while differing on some interpretations. Among the differences discussed is the question of whether it is better to read Moses 7:28 as it was dictated in Old Testament 1 version of the Joseph Smith Translation manuscript (OT1) that “God wept,” or rather to read it as it was later revised in the Old Testament 2 version (OT2) that “Enoch wept.” Far from being an obscure technical detail, the juxtaposition of the two versions of this verse raises general questions as to whether readings based on the latest revisions of Latter-day Saint scripture manuscripts should always take priority over the original dictations. A dialogue with Colby Townsend and Charles Harrell on rich issues of theological and historical relevance demonstrates the potential impact of the different answers to such questions by different scholars. In a separate discussion that highlights the potential significance of handwriting analysis to textual criticism, Bradshaw and Dahle respond to Townsend’s arguments that the spelling difference between the names Mahujah and Mahijah in the Book of Moses may be due to a transcription error.

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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BYU TV. “That Promised Day: The Coming Forth of the LDS Scriptures.” In BYU TV. 2010.
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This documentary film outlines the development of the 1979/1981 editions of the LDS Bible and Book of Mormon. Deepen your appreciation for the massive effort made to create the Topical Guide, Bible Dictionary, Joseph Smith Translation, footnotes, maps, and more. Listen to those who worked on the project over 30 years ago and hear their inspired experiences.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

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Belnap, David M. “The Theory of Evolution is Compatible with Both Belief and Unbelief in a Supreme Being.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 16 (2015): 261-281.
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Abstract: The crux of the creation–evolution conflict is a futile desire to scientifically prove or disprove the existence of God. The conflict is manifest in the common belief that creation means a divine, supernatural process and that evolution denotes an atheistic, accidental event. Evolution involves a random change in an inherited trait followed by selection for or against the altered trait. If humans use this principle to design machines, solve complex mathematical problems, engineer proteins, and manipulate living organisms, then certainly a super-intelligent being could have used evolution to create life on earth. This reasoning indicates that evolution does not prove atheism and that evolution is a constructive process. The theory of evolution is a mechanistic description and therefore, like all other scientific principles, is neutral on the question of God’s existence. Evolution is compatible with the simple scriptural accounts of creation. Consequently, belief or unbelief in God is put back where it should be — on individual choice.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Interpreter Foundation. “The Theory of Evolution is Compatible with Both Belief and Unbelief in a Supreme Being.” The Interpreter Foundation website. January 27, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Perspectives on Science and the Book of Moses

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Bowen, Matthew L. “‘This Son Shall Comfort Us’: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 263-298.
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Abstract: From an etiological perspective, the Hebrew Bible connects the name Noah with two distinct but somewhat homonymous verbal roots: nwḥ (“rest”) and nḥm (“comfort,” “regret” [sometimes “repent”]). Significantly, the Enoch and Noah material in the revealed text of the Joseph Smith Translation of Genesis (especially Moses 7–8) also connects the name Noah in a positive sense to the earth’s “rest” and the Lord’s covenant with Enoch after the latter “refuse[d] to be comforted” regarding the imminent destruction of humanity in the flood. The Book of Mormon, on the other hand, connects the name Noah pejoratively to Hebrew nwḥ (“rest”) and nḥm (“comfort” and “repentance” [regret]) in a negative evaluation of King Noah, the son of Zeniff. King Noah causes his people to “labor exceedingly to support iniquity” (Mosiah 11:6), gives “rest” to his wicked and corrupt priests (Mosiah 11:11), and anesthetizes his people in their sins with his winemaking. Noah and his people’s refusal to “repent” and their martyring of Abinadi result in their coming into hard bondage to the Lamanites. Mormon’s text further demonstrates how the Lord eventually “comforts” Noah’s former subjects after their “sore repentance” and “sincere repentance” from their iniquity and abominations, providing them a typological deliverance that points forward to the atonement of Jesus Christ.
“Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.” (Isaiah 49:13).

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Mormon Scriptures > Mosiah
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 8 — Noah

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Calabro, David M. “‘This Thing Is a Similitude’: A Typological Approach to Moses 5:1–15 and Ancient Apocryphal Literature.” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses” (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.

See also: ““This Thing Is a Similitude”: A Typological Approach to Moses 5:4–15 and Ancient Apocryphal Literature” (2021)

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Calabro, David M. “‘This Thing Is a Similitude’: A Typological Approach to Moses 5:4–15 and Ancient Apocryphal Literature.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 468–504. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

See also: “‘This Thing Is a Similitude’: A Typological Approach to Moses 5:1–15 and Ancient Apocryphal Literature” (2020)

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture

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Wayment, Thomas A. “Thomas Wayment and the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.” In From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring. August 10, 2020.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

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Nibley, Hugh W. “To Open the Last Dispensation: Moses Chapter 1.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 1–22. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.
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After all these years, it comes as a surprise for me to learn that the book of Moses appeared in the same year as the publication of the Book of Mormon, the first chapter being delivered in the very month of its publication. And it is a totally different kind of book, in another style, from another world. It puts to rest the silly arguments about who really wrote the Book of Mormon, for whoever produced the book of Moses would have been even a greater genius. That first chapter is a composition of unsurpassed magnificence. And we have all overlooked it completely. The Joseph Smith controversy is silly for the same reason the ShakeÂspeare controversy is silly. Granted that a simple countryman could not have written the plays that go under the name of Will Shakespeare, who could? If that man is hard to imagine as their author, is it any easier to imagine a courtier, or a London wit, or a doctor of the schools, or, just for laughs, a committee of any of the above as the source of that miraÂculous outpouring? Joseph Smith’s achievement is of a different sort, but even more staggering: he challenged the whole world to fault him in his massive sacred history and an unprecedented corpus of apocalyptic books. He took all the initiative and did all the work, withholding nothÂing and claiming no immunity on religious or any other grounds; he spreads a thousand pages before us and asks us to find something wrong. And after a century and a half with all that material to work on, the learned world comes up with nothing better than the old discredited Solomon Spaulding story it began with. What an astounding tribute to the achievement of the Prophet that after all this time and with all that evidence his enemies can do no better than that! Even more impressive is the positive evidence that is accumulating behind the book of Moses— which includes fragments from books of Adam, Noah, and Enoch; for in our day ancient books that bear those names are being seriously studied for the first time in modern history, and comparison with the Joseph Smith versions is impressing leading scholars in the field. But even without external witnesses, what a masterpiece we have in that first chapter of the book of Moses! Consider the below.

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Adam (Prophet); Apocalypse of Abraham; Apocrypha; Combat of Adam; Deliverance; Early Church History; Joseph; Jr.; Moses (Prophet); Plan of Salvation; Prophet; Satan; Smith; Translation

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Chapters > Moses 1

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Stuckenbruck, Loren T. “To What Extent Did Philo’s Treatment of Enoch and the Giants Presuppose a Knowledge of the Enochic and Other Sources Preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls?” The Studia Philonica Annual 19 (2007): 131–142.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Secondary Sources

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Interpreter Foundation. “Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2020 Conference.” 2020 Book of Moses Conference, September 18-19, 2020. The Interpreter Foundation, Brigham Young University Department of Ancient Scripture, Book of Mormon Central, and FAIR. Orem, Utah.

See also:
“Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2021 Conference” (2021)
Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 1 (2021)
Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 2 (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

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Interpreter Foundation. “Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2021 Conference.” 2021 Book of Moses Conference, April 23-24, 2021. The Interpreter Foundation, Brigham Young University Department of Ancient Scripture, Book of Mormon Central, and FAIR. Orem, Utah.

See also:
“Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2020 Conference” (2020)
Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 1 (2021)
Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 2 (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., David Rolph Seely, John W. Welch, and Scott Gordon, eds. Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 1. Proceedings of the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference, September 18-19, 2020 and April 23–24, 2021. Volume 1 of 2. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.
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Volume I:
Keynote Overviews
Inspired Origins and Historical Contexts

Volume II
Literary Explorations
Moses 1: Temple Echoes in the Heavenly Ascent of Moses
Moses 6–7: Enoch’s Divine Ministry

See also:
“Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2020 Conference” (2020)
“Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2021 Conference” (2021)
Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 2 (2021)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., David Rolph Seely, John W. Welch, and Scott Gordon, eds. Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 2. Proceedings of the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference, September 18-19, 2020 and April 23–24, 2021. Volume 2 of 2. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.
Display Abstract

Volume I:
Keynote Overviews
Inspired Origins and Historical Contexts

Volume II
Literary Explorations
Moses 1: Temple Echoes in the Heavenly Ascent of Moses
Moses 6–7: Enoch’s Divine Ministry

See also:
“Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2020 Conference” (2020)
“Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses 2021 Conference” (2021)
Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities. Volume 1 (2021)

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Kugel, James L. Traditions of the Bible. Revised ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Flake, Kathleen. “Translating Time: The Nature and Function of Joseph Smith’s Narrative Canon.” Journal of Religion 87, no. 4 (October 2007): 497–527.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Translation

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Townsend, Colby J. “Translation as Expansion: The Method of Joseph Smith’s Revision of Genesis in Moses 1 and 7.” Journal of Mormon History 46, no. 4 (October 2020): 45–59.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (26 October, 2013), edited by David Rolph Seely, Jeffrey R. Chadwick and Matthew J. Grey. , 49–65. Provo and Salt Lake City, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2013.
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One thing that has always perplexed readers of Genesis is the location of the two special trees within the Garden of Eden. Although scripture initially applies the phrase “in the midst” only to the tree of life (Genesis 2:9), the tree of knowledge is later said by Eve to be located there too (see Genesis 3:3). In the context of these verses, the Hebrew phrase corresponding to “in the midst” literally means “in the center.” How can both trees be in the center?

See also: “Древо познания как завеса храма (Святилища)” (2013)

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil

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Welch, John W., and Donald W. Parry. The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 3 — Garden of Eden

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Schwartz, Howard. Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Truth and Beauty in the Book of Moses.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Interpreter Foundation Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference, 10 November 2018, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. The Temple on Mount Zion Series. Volume 5, in preparation. Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Temple Themes in the Book of Moses and Related Scripture
Book of Moses Topics > Messianic and Christological Themes in the Book of Moses
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

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Bennion, Lowell L. The Unknown Testament. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1988.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings

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Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Matthew L. Bowen. “‘Veren kautta teidät pyhitetään’: Toimitusten ja hengellisen uudestisyntymisen vertauskuvallinen, pelastava, toisiinsa liittyvä, kertyvä, taaksepäin katsova ja ennakoiva luonne Johanneksen evankeliumin kolmannessa ja Mooseksen kirjan ensimmäisessä luvussa.” Finnish translation of “‘By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified’: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6.”.
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[Editor’s Note: This article is an updated and extended version of a presentation given at the Third Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference: The Temple on Mount Zion, November 5, 2016, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. For a video version of the presentation, see https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference-videos/]
Abstract: In chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, Jesus described spiritual rebirth as consisting of two parts: being “born of water and of the spirit.”
To this requirement of being “born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit,” Moses 6:59–60 adds that one must “be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; … For … by the blood ye are sanctified.”
In this article, we will discuss the symbolism of water, spirit, and blood in scripture as they are actualized in the process of spiritual rebirth. We will highlight in particular the symbolic, salvific, interrelated, additive, retrospective, and anticipatory nature of these ordinances within the allusive and sometimes enigmatic descriptions of John 3 and Moses 6. Moses 6:51–68, with its dense infusion of temple themes, was revealed to the Prophet in December 1830, when the Church was in its infancy and more than a decade before the fulness of priesthood ordinances was made available to the Saints in Nauvoo. Our study of these chapters informs our closing perspective on the meaning of the sacrament, which is consistent with the recent re-emphasis of Church leaders that the “sacrament is a beautiful time to not just renew our baptismal covenants, but to commit to Him to renew all our covenants.”
We discuss the relationship of the sacrament to the shewbread of Israelite temples, and its anticipation of the heavenly feast that will be enjoyed by those who have been sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ.

See also:
““By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6” (2017)
““By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6” (2020)

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Szink, Terrence L. “The Vision of Enoch: Structure of a Masterpiece.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17, no. 1–2 (2008): 6–19.
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The seventh chapter of the Book of Moses portrays Enoch’s vision of the history and future of the world within a specific literary framework. The text, coming from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, outlines three periods of time: (1) the days of Noah, (2) the meridian of time, and (3) the last days. The portrayal of each of these time periods contains five similar characteristics. Szink also compares this text with accounts in the Bible and other nonbiblical sources to further understand the vision and the significance of its framework. By presenting the three periods in a literary art form, the author has created a complex beauty that reflects and reinforces the content of the vision.

Keywords: Creation; Dream; Enoch (Prophet); Joseph Smith Translation; Last Days; Literary; Literature; Meridian of Time; Vision

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

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Turner, Rodney. “The Visions of Moses (Moses 1).” In The Pearl of Great Price. Studies in Scripture: Volume 2, edited by Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson, 43–61. Salt Lake City, UT: Randall Book Company, 1985.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

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Jackson, Kent P. “The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation.” In “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Essays in Honor of John W. Welch, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson, 161–169. Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2017.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > History
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

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Jackson, Kent P. “The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 89-98.
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Abstract: This contribution focuses on the earliest and one of the most significant chapters of the Book of Moses: Moses 1, sometimes called the “Visions of Moses.” Kent Jackson summarizes the sources available relating to the production of this chapter, illuminating obscure corners of its often misunderstood background with his extensive knowledge of the history, manuscripts, and significance of the Joseph Smith Translation. [Editor’s Note: Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article is reprinted here as a service to the LDS community. Original pagination and page numbers have necessarily changed, otherwise the reprint has the same content as the original.See Kent P. Jackson, “The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation,” in “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Essays in Honor of John W. Welch, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2017), 161–70. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/to-seek-the-law-of-the-lord-essays-in-honor-of-john-w-welch-2/.].

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Joseph Smith Papers Project. “Visions of Moses, June 1830 [Moses 1].” In The Joseph Smith Papers.
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“A Revelation given to Joseph the Revelator June 1830,” Visions of Moses, [Fayette Township, Seneca Co., NY, or Harmony Township, Susquehanna Co., PA (or possibly Colesville Township or Manchester Township, NY)], June 1830; handwriting of Oliver Cowdery; three pages; now in Old Testament Revision 1, CCLA.Images of this item © Community of Christ and licensed to the Joseph Smith Papers Project. Inquiries about high-resolution images of this item for scholarly use should be directed to the Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Joseph Smith Translation (JST), Primary Manuscripts and Parallel Editions

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Bulloch, Kevin M. “The War in Heaven and Satan’s Continuing Battle for Power.” Religious Educator 11, no. 1 (2010): 33–46.
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Many parents, as they have labored through the process of raising a teenager, may have wondered at times if Satan’s idea of destroying agency was such a bad idea. However, most parents have learned from experience that trying to control a child’s decisions, even in the right direction, can often result in the child’s rebellion. Very few, if any, like to be forced to do something, even if it is good. Having the right to live according to our personal desires and to exercise our agency, even if what we choose is not wise or good for us, is very precious to us. We prize our moral agency so highly that any attempt to undermine, circumvent, manipulate, control, or eliminate it often leads to conflict. These battles have spanned heaven and earth and have included both individuals and great assemblies.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Agency
RSC Topics > D — F > Devil
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin

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Halverson, Taylor. “Was Adam a Monotheist? A Reflection on Why We Call Abraham Father and Not Adam.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 245-258.
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Abstract: The three great monotheistic religious traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) all claim Abraham as father and prototypical monotheist. Though Adam is the putative first father in all of these traditions, he is seldom remembered in Judeo-Christian scriptural, apocryphal, or pseudepigraphic texts as an exemplary monotheist. This essay briefly reviews why Abraham retains the lofty title “Father of Monotheism” while exploring how Latter-day restoration scripture adds to and challenges this ancient tradition vis-à-vis enhanced understanding of Adam’s covenantal and monotheistic fidelity to God.

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

ID = [3597]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2019-01-01  Collections:  interpreter-journal,moses,old-test  Size: 30969  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:42

Wyatt, Nicolas. “‘Water, Water Everywhere …’: Musings on the Aqueous Myths of the Near East.” In The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature, edited by Nicholas Wyatt, 189-237. London, England: Equinox, 2005.

ID = [4592]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Seely, David Rolph. “‘We Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God, as Far as It Is Translated Correctly’: Latter-Day Saints and Historical Biblical Criticism.” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 8 (2016): 64–86.
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This study presents the basic Latter-day Saint beliefs about the Bible and documents the relationship between these beliefs and the approach and results of historical biblical criticism. Latter-day Saints believe the Bible is the word of God but do not believe it is inerrant or sufficient and thus is supplemented by other revealed ancient texts—most notably the Book of Mormon. Latter-day Saints believe in the pursuit of truth through “study and faith” and are thus not opposed to intellectual examination of scripture. In fact LDS scholars selectively use biblical critical methods in defending of their scripture. At the same time Mormons are defensive about the historicity of the Bible and the Book of Mormon—and thus find themselves with a tradition of conflict with the results of modern biblical criticism that challenge these assumptions. A growing number of LDS scholars in the church who are trained in the historical critical approach to scripture has resulted in renewed discussions and studies about the relationship between faith and scholarship. These discussions are enhanced by a greater openness in the church regarding the critical study of its history, and the results of this approach have also generated biblical and Book of Mormon studies relating to historical critical issues.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Source Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis

ID = [2647]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2016-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Seely, David Rolph. “‘We Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God, as Far as It Is Translated Correctly’: Latter-day Saints and Historical Biblical Criticism.” In Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses: Inspired Origins, Temple Contexts, and Literary Qualities, Volume 1. Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David R. Seely, John W. Welch and Scott Gordon, 137–62. Orem, UT; Springville, UT; Redding, CA; Tooele, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR, and Eborn Books, 2021.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues

ID = [4639]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 2021-08-02  Collections:  interpreter-website,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

England, Eugene. “The Weeping God of Mormonism.” Dialogue 35, no. 1 (2002): 63–80.
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An essay published posthumously in which England wrestles with what he believed to be a disturbing trend in Mormonism away from what he saw as Joseph Smith’s and Brigham Young’s doctrine of God as a personal being engaged withus in a tragic universe not of his own making and toward a more absolutistic God similar to the teachings about deity held by Evangelical Christianity.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2587]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2002-01-01  Collections:  brigham,moses  Size: 52629  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Sundermann, Werner. “Ein weiteres Fragment aus Manis Gigantenbuch.” Orientalia J. Duchesne-Guillemin emerito oblata. Acta Iranica 23, 491-505. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1984.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [4490]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1984-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:57

Book of Mormon Central. “What are the Origins of Lehi’s Understanding of the Fall?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #28. February 8, 2016.
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Keywords: Fall; Lehi; Atonement; Plan of Salvation; Nephi; Bible; Old Testament; Apocrypha; Pseudepigrapha; Ancient Near East; Ancient Israelite Religion; Afterlife; Ancient Judaism

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 2 Nephi

ID = [4692]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2016-02-08  Collections:  bom,moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Goldenberg, David M. “What did Ham Do to Noah?” In ‘The Words of a Wise Man’s Mouth Are Gracious’ (Qoh. 10:12), edited by Mauro Perani, 257-65. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2005.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2589]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nibley, Hugh W. “What Did Hugh Nibley Have to Say About the LDS Enoch and the Aramaic Book of the Giants?” The Interpreter Foundation.
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These comments by Nibley are excerpted from a FARMS videocassette entitled “The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Era Dawns.”
It contains material recorded in connection with a National Interfaith Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20 November 1992 in the Kresge Auditorium of Stanford University.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Enoch
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Pearl of Great Price > Book of Moses > Characters > Mahaway, Mahujah, Mahijah

ID = [1295]  Status = Type = video  Date = 1992-11-20  Collections:  moses,nibley  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:26

Book of Mormon Central. “What Does an Ancient Book About Enoch Have to Do With Lehi’s Dream?” The Book of Mormon Central website. KnoWhy #404. February 1, 2018.
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Keywords: Tree of Life; Enoch; Book of Moses; Book of Enoch; Mist of Darkness; Hell; Evidence

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi

ID = [4693]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2018-02-01  Collections:  bmc-knowhys,bom,moses,old-test  Size: 7191  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Matthews, Robert J. “What is the Book of Moses?” In The Pearl of Great Price. Studies in Scripture: Volume 2, edited by Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson, 25–41. Salt Lake City, UT: Randall Book Co., 1985.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Overviews and Student Manuals

ID = [2625]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1985-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Bowen, Matthew L. “What Meaneth the Rod of Iron?” Insights 25, no. 2 (2005): 2–3.
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Latter-day Saint scholars Hugh W. Nibley and John A. Tvedtnes have discussed at length how a staff, rod, and sword came to be commonly identified with the word of God in the ancient Near East. The evidence they cite from the Bible, the earliest Hebrew commentators, modern biblical scholarship, and elsewhere affirms Nephi ’s unambiguous assertion that the “word of God” is a “rod.”

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

ID = [2572]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2005-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,moses  Size: 30009  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Pleins, J. David. When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah’s Flood. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Noah

ID = [2526]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Dahle, Ryan, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Matthew L. Bowen. “Where Did the Names Mahaway and Mahujah Come From? A Response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the Sources,’ Part 2 of 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 181-242.
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Review of Colby Townsend, “Returning to the Sources: Integrating Textual Criticism in the Study of Early Mormon Texts and History,” Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 10, no. 1 (2019): 55–85, https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/imwjournal/vol10/iss1/6/.
Abstract: In the present article, Part 2 of 2 of a set of articles supporting Colby Townsend’s efforts to raise awareness of the importance of textual criticism, we focus on his argument that Joseph Smith created the Book of Moses names Mahijah and Mahujah after seeing a table of name variants in the Hebrew text of Genesis 4:18 in a Bible commentary written by Adam Clarke. While we are not averse in principle to the general possibility that Joseph Smith may have relied on study aids as part of his translation of the Bible, we discuss why in this case such a conjecture raises more questions than it answers. We argue that a common ancient source for Mahujah and Mahijah in the Book of Moses and similar names in the Bible and an ancient Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch text named the Book of Giants cannot be ruled out. More broadly, we reiterate and expand upon arguments we have made elsewhere that the short and fragmentary Book of Giants, a work not discovered until 1948, contains much more dense and generally more pertinent resemblances to Moses 6‒7 than the much longer 1 Enoch, the only ancient Enoch text outside the Bible that was published and translated into English in Joseph Smith’s lifetime.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses

ID = [4591]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64661  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:58

Belnap, Daniel L. “‘Where Is Thy Glory?’ Moses 1, the Nature of Truth, and the Plan of Salvation.” Religious Educator 10, no. 2 (2009): 163–80.
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While the first chapter of the book of Moses is often understood as introductory to the rest of the book, the chapter itself is an inclusive text centering on Moses’s transformation through three separate encounters with supernatural beings. In each encounter he is taught something of the meaning of truth and experiences the power that the comprehension of truth brings. His example is particularly instructive in light of the doctrine that “truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come” (D&C 93:24).
The first section of Moses 1 contains Moses’s encounter with God (see vv. 1–11). Second is his confrontation with the adversary (see vv. 12–23). The third and final section records his meeting with God (see vv. 24–41). In these three encounters, Moses becomes a type for all who seek to understand things as they really are.

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ID = [4695]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  d-c,moses  Size: 50750  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Belnap, Daniel L. “‘Where is Thy Glory’: Moses 1, the Nature of Truth, and the Plan of Salvation.” Religious Educator 10, no. 2 (2009): 163–179.
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While the first chapter of the book of Moses is often understood as introductory to the rest of the book, the chapter itself is an inclusive text centering on Moses’s transformation through three separate encounters with supernatural beings. In each encounter he is taught something of the meaning of truth and experiences the power that the comprehension of truth brings. His example is particularly instructive in light of the doctrine that “truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come” (D&C 93:24).

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 1 — Visions of Moses

ID = [2568]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2009-01-01  Collections:  d-c,moses  Size: 50750  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Matthews, Robert J. “Whose Apocrypha? Viewing Ancient Apocrypha from the Vantage of Events in the Present Dispensation.” In Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints, edited by C. Wilfred Griggs, 1–18. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 1986.
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When I was invited to participate in this symposium on the subject of apocryphal literature, my first inclination was to decline. This was a conference for experts trained in the biblical languages. But after some reflection, I changed my mind because I think there is a place for variety, and there might even be an advantage in having a paper from a nonlinguistic point of view. And so, although I do not know Greek or Hebrew, I have had considerable exposure to Church history, and I am familiar with the formation of several books of scripture and non-scripture. This is especially true as pertaining to the books that are used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereinafter labeled the LDS Church) and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (hereinafter called the RLDS Church). And I think there are some parallels between the development of books in the Church anciently and development of books in the Church in modern times.

Keywords: Apocrypha

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Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Surveys and Perspectives on Ancient Sources from Outside the Bible
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine and Covenants

ID = [2620]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1986-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,moses,old-test,rsc-books  Size: 37427  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Welch, John S. “Why Bad Things Happen at All: A Search for Clarity among the Problems of Evil.” BYU Studies Quarterly 42, no. 2 (2003): 75-90.
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In Why Bad Things Happen to Good People, Rabbi Harold Kushner provides an insightful reading of the creation story in Genesis. He argues that the creation has not yet ended, that we are still somewhere in “day six,” and that “pockets of chaos remain.” For me, as a Latter-day Saint, this argument is very interesting because this reading is even more a propos of the creation account in the Book of Moses than it is of the account in Genesis.

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ID = [4689]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2003-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size: 43007  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

McConkie, Oscar W., Jr. “Why the Pearl of Great Price.” In The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr., 1–12. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.

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Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
RSC Topics > L — P > Pearl of Great Price

ID = [4718]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1989-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 23060  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Hopkin, Shon D. “Women, Eve, and the Mosaic Covenant: A Latter-day Saint Theological Reading.” In Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, edited by Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn and Shon D. Hopkin. Orem and Provo, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Brigham Young University Religious Education, 2020, 171–98.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 4–6:12 — Grand Council in Heaven, Adam and Eve

ID = [6489]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2020-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:45:13

Tanner, John S. “The World and the Word: History, Literature, and Scripture.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson, 217-235. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2001.
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Scriptures are by nature preserved in words. Words alone, however, cannot contain the full reality of the worlds they represent. As sacred texts, our scriptures are overwhelmingly historical, presenting factual accounts of things that happened in time and space. But because they are written, scriptures are also inherently textual, possessing literary qualities that contribute to their witness. The aim of the writing of sacred history is different from that of history writing in general, because scripture seeks to bear testimony while it seeks to preserve events. To read the record without feeling the testimony is to misread. To be understood properly, scripture requires both the companionship of the Holy Ghost and a keen sensitivity to the inspired objectives of the author. Often those objectives are not seen fully without reading the scripture as sacred literature as well as history.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Historicity and Ancient Threads — General Issues
Book of Moses Topics > Literary and Textual Studies of the Book of Moses
RSC Topics > Q — S > Scriptures

ID = [2656]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  moses,rsc-books  Size: 43974  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Athay, R. Grant. “Worlds without Number: The Astronomy of Enoch, Abraham, and Moses.” BYU Studies Quarterly 8, no. 3 (1968): 255-69.
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“Now for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed.” So lamented Moses in utter humility after seeing in vision the complexities of the planet Earth and her countless inhabitants. Shortly thereafter Moses was to see once again the earth and her. Imagine, however, his profound astonishment when, in answer to his plea for an explanation, the Lord revealed himself to Moses and told him of even more wondrous creations. “And worlds without number have I created. . . . For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power.” Other heavens and earths had already expired. New heavens, star systems with inhabitable planets, would be born in the distant future. Moses would surely have felt even more insignificant had not the Lord reassured him with his presence and the counsel that “all things are numbered unto me.”

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Astronomy; Enoch (Prophet); Moses (Prophet)

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Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Topics > Astronomy

ID = [4690]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1968-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,byu-studies,moses,old-test  Size: 34674  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:59

Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “‘Worlds Without Number’: Hugh Nibley on Science and Religion.” In Hugh Nibley Observed Introductory Blog Series, by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Interpreter Foundation, Book of Mormon Central, FAIR. 20 May 2021.
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The series is in honor of the landmark book, Hugh Nibley Observed, available in softcover, hardback, digital, and audio editions. Each week the post was accompanied by interviews and insights in pdf, audio, and video formats.
One of nine weekly blog posts published in honor of the life and work of Hugh Nibley (1910–2005).

See also:
“Hugh Nibley’s Love For God’s Creation” (2021)
“Movie Night with My Dad, by Rebecca Nibley” (2021)
“Reading with My Dad, by Rebecca Nibley” (2021)

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Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Hugh Nibley > Scholarship, Footnotes, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, CWHN, Editing > Science, Evolution

ID = [1940]  Status = Type = website article  Date = 2021-04-01  Collections:  bradshaw,interpreter-website,moses,nibley  Size: 18238  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:30

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Pratt, Orson. “Zion of Enoch.” The Seer 2, no. 5 (May 1854): 261–265. Reprint, Orem, UT: Grandin Book Company, 1994.

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Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2640]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1994-01-01  Collections:  moses,pratt-orson  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Zinner, Samuel. “‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision: Reverberations of Enoch and Asherah in Nineteenth Century America.” In Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 & 2 Enoch, edited by Samuel Zinner. Ancient Scripture and Texts 1, 239–273. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014.

See also: ““Zion” and “Jerusalem” as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision” (2014)

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [2669]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Zinner, Samuel. “‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 281-323.
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Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from a chapter in Samuel Zinner’s new book entitled Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 and 2 Enoch (Provo, UT: The Interpreter Foundation/Eborn Books, 2014). The book is now available online for purchase (e.g., Amazon, FairMormon Bookstore) and will be available in selected bookstores in October 2014. The other new temple books from Interpreter are also now available for purchase. Click here for more details.
The essay traces lines of continuity between ancient middle eastern traditions of Asherah in her various later Jewish, Christian, and Mormon forms. Especially relevant in Jewish texts are Lady Wisdom (Proverbs 8; Sirach 24; Baruch 3-4), Daughter of Zion (Lamentations; Isaiah); Lady Zion and Mother Jerusalem (4 Ezra), Binah in kabbalah etc. The divine feminine in the Jewish-Christian texts Odes of Solomon 19 and Shepherd of Hermas is examined, as well as in Pauline Christian texts, namely, the Letter to the Galatians and the writings of Irenaeus (Against Heresies and Apostolic Preaching). Dependence of Hermas on the Parables of Enoch is documented. The essay identifies parallels between some of the above ancient sources and traditions about Zion and other forms of the feminine divine in 19th century America, specifically in the Mormon scriptures (Moses 7 and Nephi 11). While recognizing the corporate nature of the Enochic city of Zion in Moses 7, the essay argues that this Zion also parallels the hypostatic Lady Zion of Jewish canonical and extracanonical scriptures, especially 4 Ezra. The essay also points how the indigenous trope of Mother Earth parallels forms of the divine feminine stretching from the ancient middle eastern Asherah, the Jewish Lady Wisdom and Shekhinah, the Christian Holy Spirit, to the Mormon Enochic Zion.

See also: “‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision: Reverberations of Enoch and Asherah in Nineteenth Century America” (2014)

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Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > 1 Nephi
Book of Moses Topics > Chapters of the Book of Moses > Moses 6:13–7 — Enoch

ID = [4283]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 2014-01-01  Collections:  bom,interpreter-journal,moses  Size: 64317  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:44:56

Matt, Daniel C., Nathan Wolski, and Joel Hecker, eds. The Zohar: Complete Set. 12 vols. Zohar: The Pritzker Editions. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > General Collections and Key Texts

ID = [2497]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2018-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

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Nickelsburg, George W. E., ed. 1 Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108. Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2001.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2508]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2001-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam, eds. 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Chapters 37–82. Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2510]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Nickelsburg, George W. E., and James C. VanderKam, eds. 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

ID = [2511]  Status = Type = book  Date = 2012-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:35

Jackson, Kent P., ed. “1831 Edward Partridge Genesis Copy.” Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible: Electronic Library, ed. Scott H. Faulring and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2011.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Book of Moses Topics > Basic Resources > Doctrines and Teachings
Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

ID = [2693]  Status = Type = article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Jackson, Kent P., ed. “1845 John M. Bernhisel Copy.” Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible: Electronic Library, ed. Scott H. Faulring and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

ID = [2694]  Status = Type = article  Date = 2011-01-01  Collections:  moses  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 4/17/24 8:42:36

Jackson, Kent P., ed. “1866–1867 RLDS Committee Manuscript.” Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible: Electronic Library, ed. Scott H. Faulring and Kent P. Jackson. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2011.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Joseph Smith Translation (JST) > Secondary Manuscripts and Published Editions

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Andersen, F. I. “2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch.” In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. 1:91–221. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1983.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

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Alexander, Philip S. “3 (Hebrew Apocalypse of) Enoch.” In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. 1:223–315. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1983.

Topics:    Book of Moses Topics > Selection of Ancient Sources > Enoch — Primary Sources

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