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Hauglid, Brian M, ed. A Textual History of the Book of Abraham: Manuscripts and Editions (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2010).
Jensen, Robin Scott and Brian M. Hauglid, eds. The Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church Historian’s Press, 2018).
Rogers, Brent M. et al., eds., The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 5: October 1835–January 1838 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church Historian’s Press, 2017), 69–88.
Smith, Alex D., Christian K. Heimburger, and Christopher James Blythe, eds., The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 9: December 1841–April 1842 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church Historian’s Press, 2019), 251–264.
“Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham,” Gospel Topics, online at www.churchofjesuschrist.org.
“Book of Abraham Translation,” Church History Topics, online at www.churchofjesuschrist.org.
Clark, E. Douglas. The Blessings of Abraham: Becoming A Zion People (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2005).
Draper, Richard D., S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes. The Pearl of Great Price: A Verse-By-Verse Commentary (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005).
Gee, John. An Introduction to the Book of Abraham (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2017).
— “Joseph Smith and Ancient Egypt,” in Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2015), 427–48.
— “A Tragedy of Errors,” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 4, no. 1 (1992): 93–119.
Gee, John and Brian M. Hauglid, eds. Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005).
Givens, Terryl. The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Johnson, Mark J. “Scriptures With Pictures: Methodology, Unexamined Assumptions, and the Study of the Book of Abraham,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25 (2017): 1–59.
Largey, Dennis L., ed. The Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017).
Millet, Robert L. and Kent P. Jackson, eds. Studies in Scriptures, Volume 2: The Pearl of Great Price (Sandy, UT: Randall Book, 1985).
Muhlestein, Kerry. “The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham,” in A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History, ed. Laura Harris Hales (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and Provo, UT: Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center, 2016), 79–91.
— “Joseph Smith and Egyptian Artifacts: A Model for Evaluating the Prophetic Nature of the Prophet’s Ideas about the Ancient World,” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2016): 35–82.
— “Joseph Smith’s Biblical View of Egypt,” in Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2015), 449–73.
— “The Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith, Revelation, and You,” BYU-Hawaii Devotional, online at www.devotional.byuh.edu.
— “Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View,” in No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues, ed. Robert L. Millet (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 217–43.
— “Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: Some Questions and Answers,” Religious Educator 11, no. 1 (2010): 90–106.
— “Approaching Understandings in the Book of Abraham,” FARMS Review 18, no. 2 (2006): 229–246.
Peterson, H. Donl. “Book of Abraham,” in The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 Vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 1:132–134.
— The Pearl of Great Price: A History and Commentary (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1987).
Pererson, H. Donl and Charles D. Tate, eds. The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1989).
Rhodes, Michael D. “The Book of Abraham: Divinely Inspired Scripture,” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 4, no. 1 (1992): 120–126.
— “Studies About the Book of Abraham,” in The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 Vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 1:137–138.
Smoot, Stephen O. “‘From the Catecombs of Egypt’: Latter-day Saint Engagement with Ancient Egypt and the Contest of Religious Identity,” Journal of Mormon History 46, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 1–44.
Whipple, Walter L. “An Analysis of Textual Changes in ‘The Book of Abraham’ and in the ‘Writings of Joseph Smith, the Prophet’ in the Pearl of Great Price,” MA thesis, Brigham Young University, 1959.
Baer, Klaus. “The Breathing Permit of Hôr: A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3, no. 3 (Autumn 1968): 109–134.
Barney, Quinten. “The Joseph Smith Papyri and the Writings of Joseph of Egypt,” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 2 (April 2016): 95–109.
Clark, James R. “Joseph Smith and the Lebolo Egyptian Papyri,” BYU Studies 8, no. 2 (1968): 195–203.
Gee, John. “Formulas and Faith,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 1 (2012): 60–65.
— “Some Puzzles from the Joseph Smith Papyri,” FARMS Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 113–137, esp. 123–135.
— “New Light on the Joseph Smith Papyri,” FARMS Review 19, no. 2 (2007): 245–259.
— A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000).
— “Eyewitness, Hearsay, and Physical Evidence of the Joseph Smith Papyri,” in The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, ed. Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000), 175–217.
— “The Ancient Owners of the Joseph Smith Papyri,” FARMS Report (1999).
— “A History of the Joseph Smith Papyri and Book of Abraham,” FARMS Report (1999).
Morris, Larry E. “The Book of Abraham: Ask the Right Questions and Keep On Looking,” FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004): 355–380.
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Papyri and Presumptions: A Careful Examination of the Eyewitness Accounts Associated with the Joseph Smith Papyri,” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (October 2016): 31–50.
— “Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 22 (2016): 17–49.
— “The Religious and Cultural Background of Joseph Smith Papyrus I,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 1 (2013): 20–33.
—“The Book of Breathings in Its Place,” FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): 471–486.
Muhlestein, Kerry and Alexander L. Baugh. “Preserving the Joseph Smith Papyri Fragments: What Can We Learn From the Paper on Which the Papyri Were Mounted?” Journal of Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 66–83.
Peterson, H. Donl. “Antonio Lebolo: Excavator of the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies 31, no. 3 (1991): 5–25.
— “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. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989), 137–54.
Rhodes, Michael D. Books of the Dead Belonging to Tshemmin and Neferirnub: A Translation and Commentary (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2010).
— The Hor Book of Breathings: A Translation and Commentary (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2002).
Todd, Jay M. “New Light on Joseph Smith’s Egyptian Papyri,” Improvement Era, February 1968, 40–49.
— “Egyptian Papyri Rediscovered,” Improvement Era, January 1968, 12–16.
Wilson, John A. “The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Summary Report,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 67–85.
Brown, Samuel. “Joseph (Smith) in Egypt: Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden,” Church History 78, no. 1 (2009): 26–65.
Gee, John. “Fantasy and Reality in the Translation of the Book of Abraham,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42 (2021): 127–170.
— “Prolegomena to a Study of the Egyptian Alphabet Documents in the Joseph Smith Papers,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42 (2021): 77–98.
— “The Role of the Book of Abraham in the Restoration,” FARMS Report (1997).
Grey, Matthew J. “‘The Word of the Lord in the Original’: Joseph Smith’s Study of Hebrew in Kirtland,” in Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, edited by Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2015), 249–302.
— “Approaching Egyptian Papyri through Biblical Language: Joseph Smith’s Use of Hebrew in His Translation of the Book of Abraham,” in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, ed. Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 2020), 390—451.
Haggerty, Charles Edward. “A Study of the Book of Abraham,” MA thesis, Brigham Young University, 1946.
Hedges, Andrew H. “A Wanderer in a Strange Land: Abraham in America, 1800-1850,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 175–187.
Lindsay, Jeff. “A Precious Resource with Some Gaps,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 13–104.
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Prelude to the Pearl: Sweeping Events Leading to the Discovery of the Book of Abraham,” in Prelude to the Restoration: From Apostasy to the Restored Church (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2004), 130–41.
Muhlestein, Kerry and Megan Hansen, “‘The Work of Translating’: The Book of Abraham’s Translation Chronology,” in Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millett, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center and Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2016), 139–162.
Peterson, H. Donl. The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1995).
— “Translation and Publication of the Book of Abraham,” in The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 Vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 1:134.
Sandberg, Karl C. “Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith as Translator,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 22, no. 4 (Winter 1989): 17–37.
Thompson, John S. “‘We May Not Understand Our Words’:
The Book of Abraham and the Concept of Translation in The Pearl of Greatest Price,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 1–48.
Todd, Jay M. The Saga of the Book of Abraham (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1969).
Walton, Michael T. “Professor Seixas, the Hebrew Bible, and the Book of Abraham,” Sunstone, March–April 1981, 41–43.
Wilcox, Matthew Porter. “The Coming Forth of the Book of Abraham,” in The Restoration and History of the Church, BYU Religious Education 2009 Student Symposium (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young Unversity, 2009), 105–121.
Zucker, Louis C. “Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 41–55.
Adams, William James Jr. “Human Sacrifice and the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies 9, no. 4 (Summer 1969): 473–480.
Barney, Kevin. “On Elkenah as Canaanite El,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19, no. 1 (2010): 22–35.
— “Examining Six Key Concepts in Joseph Smith’s Understanding of Genesis 1:1,” BYU Studies 39, no. 3 (2000): 107–124.
Barney, Quinten. “Sobek: The Idolatrous God of Pharaoh Amenemhet III,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 22–27.
Benson, RoseAnn. “Reexamining Lot,” Religious Educator 14, no. 1 (2013): 59–81.
Calabro, David. “The Choreography of Genesis: The Book of Abraham as a Ritual Text,” in Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning: Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 5 November 2016, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2020), 241–261.
Clark, E. Douglas. “Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham,” BYU Studies Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2014): 173–179.
Cook, Bradley J. “The Book of Abraham and the Islamic Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) Extant Literature,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 127–146.
Freedman, David Noel. “The Ebla Tablets and the Abraham Tradition,” in Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978), 67–78.
Gee, John. “Four Idolatrous Gods in the Book of Abraham,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 38 (2020): 133-152.
— “Abraham and Idrimi,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 1 (2013): 34–39.
— “Has Olishem Been Discovered?” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 104–107.
— “An Egyptian View of Abraham,” in Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, ed. Andrew C. Skinner, D. Morgan Davis, and Carl Griffin (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2011), 137–156.
— “The Crocodile God of Pharaoh in Mesopotamia,” Insights, October 1996, 2.
— “Abraham in Ancient Egyptian Texts,” Ensign, July 1992, 60–62.
Gee, John and Stephen D. Ricks. “Historical Plausibility: The Historicity of the Book of Abraham as a Case Study,” in Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 63–98.
Givens, Terryl L. When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Halverson, Taylor. “The Lives of Abraham: Seeing Abraham Through the Eyes of Second-Temple Jews,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 253–276.
Hauglid, Brian M. “The Book of Abraham and Muslim Tradition,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 131–146.
Hoskisson, Paul Y. “Where Was Ur of the Chaldees?” in The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989), 119–36.
Ludlow, Jared W. “Abraham’s Vision of the Heavens,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 57–73.
Lundquist, John M. “Was Abraham at Ebla? A Cultural Background of the Book of Abraham,” in Studies in Scriptures, Volume 2: The Pearl of Great Price, ed. Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson (Sandy, UT: Randall Book, 1985), 225–237.
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, ed. C. Wilfred Griggs (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1986), 1–18.
Mackay, Thomas W. “Abraham in Egypt: A Collation of Evidence for the Case of the Missing Wife,” BYU Studies 10, no. 4 (Summer 1970): 429–451.
McConkie, Joseph F. “Premortal Existence, Foreordinations, and Heavenly Councils,” in Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints, ed. C. Wilfred Griggs (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1986), 174–98.
Moyer, Jonathan. “The Jewish Origin of the Book of Abraham,” online at http://www.hains.net.
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Sacred Violence: When Ancient Egyptian Punishment was Dressed in Ritual Trappings,” Near Eastern Archaeology 78, no. 4 (2015): 244-251.
— “Egypt in the Bible,” Religious Educator 11, no. 3 (2010): 79–93.
Muhlestein, Kerry and John Gee. “An Egyptian Context for the Sacrifice of Abraham,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 2 (2011): 70–77.
Nadig, Peter C. “‘We Beg You, Our King!’: Some Reflections on the Jews in Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 83–93.
Olson, Eric Jay. “For Whom Did Abraham Write the Book of Abraham?” Ensign, June 1982, 35–36.
Pike, Dana M. “Before Jeremiah Was: Divine Election in the Ancient Near East,” in A Witness for the Restoration: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Matthews, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Andrew C. Skinner (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007), 33–59.
Ricks, Stephen D. “The Early Ministry of Abraham (Abraham 1 and 2),” in Studies in Scriptures, Volume 2: The Pearl of Great Price, ed. Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson (Sandy, UT: Randall Book, 1985), 217–224.
Smith, Julie M. “A Note on Chiasmus in Abraham 3:22–23,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 8 (2014): 187–190.
Smoot, Stephen O. “‘Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born’: An Egyptian Context for the Election of Abraham,” Religious Educator 22, no. 1 (2021): 101–121.
— “‘In the Land of the Chaldeans’: The Search for Abraham’s Homeland Revisited,” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017): 7–37.
— “Council, Chaos, and Creation in the Book of Abraham,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 28–39.
Smoot, Stephen O. and Quinten Barney, “The Book of the Dead as a Temple Text and the Implications for the Book of Abraham,” in The Temple: Ancient and Restored, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Donald W. Parry, Temple on Mount Zion Series 3 (Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation and Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2016), 183–209.
Strathearn, Gaye. “The Wife/Sister Experience: Pharaoh’s Introduction to Jehovah” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book 2005), 100–116.
Thompson, Stephen E. “Contents of the Book of Abraham,” in The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 Vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 1:135.
Tvedtnes, John A. “Abrahamic Lore in Support of the Book of Abraham,” FARMS Report (1999).
Tvedtnes, John A., Brian M. Hauglid, and John Gee, eds., Traditions About the Early Life of Abraham (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2001).
Peterson, Daniel C. “News from Antiquity,” Ensign, January 1994, 16–21.
Wernick, Nissim. “A Critical Analysis of the Book of Abraham in the Light of Extra-Canonical Jewish Writings,” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1968, online at http://geocitiessites.com.
Dibble, William E. “The Book of Abraham and Pythagorean Astronomy,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8, no. 2 (Fall 1973): 134–137.
Gee, John, William J. Hamblin, and Daniel C. Peterson. “‘And I Saw the Stars’: The Book of Abraham and Ancient Geocentric Astronomy,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 1–16.
Moody, J. Ward. “Times of Reckoning and Set Times in Abraham 3,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 38 (2020): 1–14.
Muhlestein, Kerry. “Encircling Astronomy and the Egyptians: An Approach to Abraham 3,” Religious Educator 10, no. 1 (2009): 33–50.
Rhodes, Michael D. and J. Ward Moody, “Astronomy and Creation in the Book of Abraham,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 17–36.
Barney, Kevin. “The Facsimiles and Semitic Adaptation of Existing Sources,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 107–130.
Barney, Quinten. “The Neglected Facsimile: An Examination and Comparative Study of Facsimile No. 3 of The Book of Abraham,” MA thesis, Brigham Young University, 2019.
Johnson, Hollis R. “One Day to a Cubit,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 3 (2013): 223–230.
Gee, John. “Shulem, One of the King’s Principal Waiters,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 383–395.
— “Facsimile 3 and Book of the Dead 125,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2005), 95–105.
—“A Method for Studying the Facsimiles,” FARMS Review 19, no. 1 (2007): 347–353.
—“Abracadabra, Isaac, and Jacob,” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 7, no. 1 (1995): 19–84.
— “Notes on the Sons of Horus,” FARMS Preliminary Report (1991).
Ostler, Blake T. “Abraham: An Egyptian Connection,” FARMS Report (1981).
Rhodes, Michael D. “Teaching the Book of Abraham Facsimiles,” Religious Educator 4/2 (2003): 115-123.
—“The Joseph Smith Hypocephalus…Twenty Years Later,” FARMS Preliminary Report (1997).
— “Facsimiles from the Book of Abraham,” in The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 Vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 1:135–137.
— “A Translation and Commentary of the Joseph Smith Hypocephalus,” BYU Studies 17, no. 3 (Spring 1977): 259–274.
Goodman, Michael A. “The Abrahamic Covenant: A Foundational Theme for the Old Testament,” Religious Educator 4, no. 3 (2003): 43–53.
Hovorka, Janet. “Sarah and Hagar: Ancient Women of the Abrahamic Covenant,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 147–166.
Muhlestein, Kerry. “The Book of Abraham, Revelation, and You,” Ensign, December 2018, 54–57.
Nyman, Monte S. “The Covenant of Abraham,” in The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989), 155–70.
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 (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, 2011), 123–50.
Skinner, Andrew C. “The Book of Abraham: A Most Remarkable Book,” Ensign, March 1997, 16–22.
Wilcox, S. Michael. “The Abrahamic Covenant,” Ensign, January 1998, 42–48.
Taketa, Kathryn. “Premortality in the Pearl of Great Price and the Qur’an,” in Selections from the Religious Education Student Symposium, 2004 (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004), 203–217.
Winston, David. “Preexistence in Hellenic, Judaic, and Mormon Sources,” in Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978), 13–35.
One Eternal Round (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2010).
An Approach to the Book of Abraham (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2009).
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, 2nd ed. (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005).
“Approach to John Gee, Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri,” FARMS Review 13, no. 2 (2001): 63–64.
Abraham in Egypt, 2nd ed. (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000).
“Abraham’s Creation Drama,” in The Temple in Time and Eternity, ed. Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1999), 1–42.
Abraham in Egypt (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1981).
“What, Exactly, Is the Purpose and Significance of the Facsimiles in the Book of Abraham?” Ensign, March 1976, 34–36.
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1976).
“The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers,” BYU Studies 11, no. 4 (Summer 1971): 350–399.
“What is The Book of Breathings?” BYU Studies 11, no. 2 (Winter 1971): 153-187.
“As Things Stand at the Moment,” BYU Studies 9, no. 1 (1969): 69–102.
“Getting Ready to Begin: An Editorial,” BYU Studies 8, no. 3 (1968): 245–254.
“Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies 8, no. 2 (1968): 171–178.
“The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Phase One,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 99–105.
A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price (1968–1970)
—“Part 1: Challenge and Response,” Improvement Era, January 1968, 18–25.
—“Part 1: Challenge and Response (Continued),” Improvement Era, February 1968, 14–21.
—“Part 1: Challenge and Response (Continued),” Improvement Era, March 1968, 16–22.
—“Part 1: Challenge and Response (Continued),” Improvement Era, April 1968, 64–69.
—“Part 2: May We See Your Credentials?” Improvement Era, May 1968, 54–57.
—“Part 2: May We See Your Credentials? (Continued),” Improvement Era, June 1968, 18–22.
—“Part 3: Empaneling the Panel,” Improvement Era, July 1968, 48–55.
—“[Part 4:] Second String,” Improvement Era, August 1968, 53–64.
—“Part 5: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document,” Improvement Era, September 1968, 66–80.
—“Part 5: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document (Continued),” Improvement Era, October 1968, 73–81.
—“Part 6: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document,” Improvement Era, November 1968, 36–44.
—“Part 6: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document (Continued),” Improvement Era, December 1968, 28–33.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham,” Improvement Era, January 1969, 26–33.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, February 1969, 64–67.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, March 1969, 76–84.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, April 1969, 66–72.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, May 1969, 87–91.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, June 1969, 126–132.
—“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, July 1969, 97–111.
—“Part 8: Facsimile No. 1, by the Figures (Continued),” Improvement Era, August 1969, 75–87.
—“Part 8: Facsimile No. 1, by the Figures (Continued),” Improvement Era, September 1969, 85–95.
—“Part 8: Facsimile No. 1, by the Figures (Continued),” Improvement Era, October 1969, 85–95.
—“Part 9: Setting the Stage – The World of Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, November 1969, 116–126.
—“Part 9: Setting the Stage – The World of Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, January 1970, 56–65.
—“Part 10: The Sacrifice of Isaac,” Improvement Era, March 1970, 84–94.
—“Part 11: The Sacrifice of Sarah,” Improvement Era, April 1970, 79–95.
—“Conclusion: Taking Stock,” Improvement Era, May 1970, 82–94.
Evans, John Henry. “Bishop Spalding’s Jumps in the Logical Process,” Improvement Era, February 1913, 343–346.
Nelson, Nels L. “An Open Letter to Bishop Spalding,” Improvement Era, April 1913, 603–610.
Pack, Frederick J. “An Offshoot of the Spalding Argument,” Improvement Era, June 1913, 778–779.
— “Dr. Pack to Dr. Peters,” Improvement Era, June 1913, 777–778.
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— “An Open Question to Dr. Spalding,” Improvement Era, May 1913, 702–704.
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A Most Remarkable Book – Evidence for The Book of Abraham
The Book of Abraham and Unnoticed Assumptions – Kerry Muehlstien 2014
The Historical Authenticity of the Book of Abraham – John Gee – 2018 FairMormon conference