The Book of Mormon
Week 1: Introduction; the title page of the Book of Mormon
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7 September 2023
Lesson Materials
Lesson video
Suggested Resources for This Course
Recommended
Hardy, Grant, ed., The Annotated Book of Mormon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Hardcover & Kindle editions via Amazon.com ($36, $10).
Read Joshua M. Sears’s review of Hardy’s book in BYU Studies 62, no. 4 (2023).
Optional
Skousen, Royal, ed. The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022.
Hardcover, paperback & Kindle editions via Amazon.com ($36, $22, $10).
Read the 2009 first edition free online via Book of Mormon Central (no download).
Parry, Donald W. Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text Reformatted. Provo, UT: The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, 2007.
Additional reading and links
Daniel H. Ludlow, “The Title Page,” in The Book of Mormon: First Nephi, The Doctrinal Foundation, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988), 29–31. (Purchase this book)
Sources of the Plates of Mormon
Mormon₂ and the other writers and editors of the Nephite records drew from many different source materials. This diagram depicts all known sources of the material that was abridged into the plates of Mormon and published as The Book of Mormon in 1830. (Click for full size version.)
