Recommended Readings

• Early Mormon Documents, Vols. 1 – 6, ed. Dan Vogel (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996-2003).

• H. Michael Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters, Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998).

• The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith, ed. Bryan Waterman (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999).

• B.H. Roberts, Studies of the Book of Mormon, ed. Brigham D. Madsen (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992).

• Dan Vogel, Joseph Smith, The Making of a Prophet (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2004).

• D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994).

• Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005).

• New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology, ed. Brent Lee Metcalfe (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992)

• E. D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed [sic]: or, A Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion, from Its Rise to the Present Time (Painesville, OH: E. D. Howe, 1834).

• Pomeroy Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism: Biography of Its Founders and History of Its Church (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1867), photocopy of original 1867 edition.

• La Mar Peterson, Creation of the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Freethinker Press, 2000).

• American Apocrypha, ed. Brent Lee Metcalfe and Dan Vogel (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002).

• Grant H. Palmer, An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002).

• Robert D. Anderson, Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999)

• Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism – Shadow or Reality? (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987).

The Book of Mormon Changes, Language, and Use of the Bible and Apocrypha:

• Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s 3,913 Changes in the Book of Mormon, (Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1996).

• Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Joseph Smith’s Plagiarism of the Bible (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1998).

• Jerald and Sandra Tanner, “Joseph Smith’s Use of the Apocrypha,” Salt Lake City Messenger, Issue No. 89, Dec. 1995.

• Wesley P. Walters, The Use of the Old Testament in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1990).

• M.T. Lamb, The Golden Bible (New York, NY: Ward and Drummond, 1886).

• Lamoni Call, 2,000 Changes in the Book of Mormon (Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1898), Photo-Reprint of 1898 Edition.

• H. Michael Marquardt, The Use of the Bible In the Book of Mormon and Early Nineteenth Century Events Reflected in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1979)

• Joseph Smith Begins His Work Vol. 1, ed. Wilford C. Wood (Wilford C. Wood, 1830), Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition. Reproduced from uncut sheets.

• Alexander Campbell, Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon (Boston, 1832).

• Mark D. Thomas, “Revival Language in the Book of Mormon,” Sunstone, Issue 39, May-June 1983.

• Mark D. Thomas, Digging in Cumorah: Reclaiming Book of Mormon Narratives (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2000).

• Dan Vogel, Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1988).

• Gordon S. Wood, “Evangelical America and Early Mormonism,” New York History 61 (Oct 1980).

Scientific Evidence:

• Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2004).

• “Reinventing Lamanite Identity,” by Brent Lee Metcalfe, Sunstone, March 2004, pp. 21-23.

• Stan Larson, Quest for the Gold Plates - Thomas Stuart Ferguson's Archaeological Search for The Book of Mormon (Freethinker Press, 1996) 79.

• H. Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations Text & Commentary (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999).

• D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998).

• David Whitmer, An Address to all Believers in Christ, Richmond, MO, 1887

• An American Prophet's Record, ed. Scott Faulring (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989).

• Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews, 1825