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Mormon

Mormon 1

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel. “Mormon, the Man and the Message.” In The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 117–131. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1995.

Sperry, Sidney B. “What the Book of Mormon Is (Concluded).” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4, no. 1 (1995): 28–40.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Wars in the Book of Mormon.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 136.

Mormon 1:1–5

Book of Mormon Central. “What Do We Know about Mormon’s Upbringing? (Mormon 1:2).” KnoWhy 226 (November 8, 2016).

Butler, John M. “The ‘Author’ and the ‘Finisher’ of the Book of Mormon.” In The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 61–68. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1995.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Who Kept the Records in the Book of Mormon? (By Lineages).” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 17.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Who Kept the Records in the Book of Mormon? (By Lineages).” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 17.

Mormon 1:8

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Did Lehi Organize His Posterity into Seven Tribes?.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 116.

Mormon 1:15

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “People to Whom Jesus Christ or the Angel of the Lord Appeared.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 41.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Who Kept the Records in the Book of Mormon? (By Lineages).” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 17.

Mormon 2

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel. “Mormon, the Man and the Message.” In The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 117–131. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1995.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Wars in the Book of Mormon.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 136.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Plausible Locations of the Final Battles.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 159.

Mormon 2:15

Book of Mormon Central. “Why Doesn’t God Punish Us the Moment We Sin? (Mormon 2:15).” KnoWhy 387 (December 5, 2017).

Mormon 2:18

Book of Mormon Central. “Why Did Mormon Write So Little about His Own Time Period? (Mormon 2:18).” KnoWhy 227 (November 9, 2016).

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Who Kept the Records in the Book of Mormon? (By Lineages).” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 17.

Mormon 3

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel. “Mormon, the Man and the Message.” In The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 117–131. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1995.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Wars in the Book of Mormon.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 136.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Plausible Locations of the Final Battles.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 159.

Mormon 3:1

Book of Mormon Central. “Why is the 10-Year Peace Treaty Important? (Mormon 3:1).” KnoWhy 228 (November 10, 2016).

Mormon 3:9–16

Bowen, Matthew L. “’Swearing by Their Everlasting Maker’: Some Notes on Paanchi and Giddianhi.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 155–170.

Mormon 3:16

Thomasson, Gordon C. “The Survivor and the Will to Bear Witness.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch, 266–268. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: FARMS/Deseret Book, 1992.

Mormon 3:20–22

Hansen, Jr., Gerald. “Preparing for the Judgment.” In The Book of Mormon: Fourth Nephi Through Moroni, From Zion to Destruction, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 95–104. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1995.

Mormon 4

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Wars in the Book of Mormon.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 136.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Plausible Locations of the Final Battles.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 159.

Mormon 4:14

Book of Mormon Central. “Why Did the Lamanites Sacrifice Women and Children to Idols? (Mormon 4:14).” KnoWhy 229 (November 11, 2016).

Mormon 4:19–21

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Nephite Cycle of Righteousness: Mormon's Warning for Us Today.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 144.

Mormon 5

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Wars in the Book of Mormon.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 136.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Plausible Locations of the Final Battles.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 159.

Mormon 5:9

Keller, Roger R. “Mormon and Moroni as Authors and Abridgers.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch, 269–271. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: FARMS/Deseret Book, 1992.

Tvedtnes, John A. “’I Make This Small Abridgment.’” In The Most Correct Book: Insights from a Book of Mormon Scholar, 1–7. Salt Lake City: Cornerstone Publishing, 1999.

Mormon 5:14

Book of Mormon Central. “What Was Mormon’s Purpose in Writing the Book of Mormon? (Mormon 5:14).” KnoWhy 230 (November 14, 2016).

Mormon 6

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “The Two Final Battles.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 138.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Wars in the Book of Mormon.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 136.

Welch, John W., and Greg Welch. “Plausible Locations of the Final Battles.” In Charting the Book of Mormon: Visual Aids for Personal Study and Teaching. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1999, chart 159.

Mormon 6:2–5

Book of Mormon Central. “How Are Oliver Cowdery’s Messenger and Advocate Letters to Be Understood and Used? (Mormon 6:6).” KnoWhy 453 (July 26, 2018).

Book of Mormon Central. “Where is the Location of the Hill Cumorah? (Mormon 6:6).” KnoWhy 489 (November 29, 2018).

Mormon 6:5

Hedges, Andrew H. “Cumorah and the Limited Mesoamerican Theory.” Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 10, no. 2 (2009): 111–134.

Hedges, Andrew H. “Problems with Probability: A Response.” Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 10, no. 2 (2009): 159–162.

Ricks, Stephen D., and John A. Tvedtnes. “The Hebrew Origin of Three Book of Mormon Place-Names.” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne, 88–92. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999.

Ricks, Stephen D., and John A. Tvedtnes. “Notes and Communications: The Hebrew Origin of Some Book of Mormon Place Names.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 6, no. 2 (1997): 255–259.

Roper, Matthew. “Plausibility, Probability, and the Cumorah Question.” Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 10, no. 2 (2009): 135–158.

Sperry, Sidney B. “Were There Two Cumorahs?” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4, no. 1 (1995): 260–268.

Mormon 6:6

Book of Mormon Central. “Are There Other Ancient Records Like the Book of Mormon? (Mormon 8:16).” KnoWhy 407 (February 13, 2018).

Book of Mormon Central. “Is the Book of Mormon Like Other Ancient Metal Documents? (Jacob 4:2).” KnoWhy 512 (April 25, 2019).

Hamblin, William J. “Sacred Writing on Metal Plates in the Ancient Mediterranean.” FARMS Review 19, no. 1 (2007): 37–54.

Hamblin, William J. “Metal Plates and the Book of Mormon.” In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne, 20–22. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999.

Tvedtnes, John A. The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: "Out of Darkness Unto Light". Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.

Wright, H. Curtis. “Metallic Documents of Antiquity.” BYU Studies Quarterly 10, no. 4 (1970): 457–477.

Wright, H. Curtis “Ancient Burials of Metal Documents in Stone Boxes.” In By Study and Also By Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley, Volume 2. Edited by John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990, 273–334.

Mormon 6:11

Welch, John W. “Number 24.” In Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch, 272–274. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: FARMS/Deseret Book, 1992.

Mormon 6:14

Book of Mormon Central. “How Could So Many People Have Died at the Battle of Cumorah? (Mormon 6:14).” KnoWhy 231 (November 15, 2016).

Ricks, Stephen D. “Some Notes on Book of Mormon Names.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 4 (2013): 155–160.

Mormon 6:17–20

Book of Mormon Central. “How Did Mormon React to Seeing His People Slain? (Mormon 6:17).” KnoWhy 232 (November 16, 2016).

Bowen, Matthew L. “’O Ye Fair Ones’ - Revisited.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20 (2016): 315–344.

Cottam, William. “I Have a Question: If both the Lamanites and the Nephites became wicked in the end, why was one group destroyed while the Lord allowed the other to remain?” Ensign (June 1990).