Articles & Book Chapters

“‘Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born’: An Egyptian Context for the Election of Abraham,” Religious Educator 22, no. 1 (2021): 101–121. (HTML)

“Jacob—The Prophet of Social Justice,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 211–218. (HTML)

“Notes on Book of Mormon Heads,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 263–282. (HTML)

“‘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. (HTML)

“Feasting on the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 143-150. (HTML)

“Translating the New Testament for Latter‑day Saints,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 95-110. (HTML)

Et Incarnatus Est: The Imperative for a Historical Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 30 (2018): 125–162. (HTML)

“Pressing Forward with the Book of Abraham,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 299–308. (HTML)

“Approaching Abinadi,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 257–260. (HTML)

“The Divine Council in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 155–180. (HTML)

“‘In the Land of the Chaldeans’: The Search for Abraham’s Homeland Revisited,” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2017): 7–37. (PDF)

With John W. Welch, Neal Rappleye, David J. Larsen, and Taylor Halverson, Knowing Why: 137 Evidences That the Book of Mormon is True (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2017). (HTML)

With Richard E. Turley Jr, “Record-Keeping Technology among God’s People in Ancient and Modern Times,” 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), 467–494. (PDF) (HTML)

“Bibliography of Selected Published Works of John W. Welch,” 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), 521–543. (PDF)

“The Council of Fifty and Its Minutes: A Review,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23 (2016): 45–52. (HTML)

“Reading A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 21 (2016): 291–301. (HTML)

With 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, The Temple on Mount Zion 3 (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2016), 183–209. (PDF)

“Mormonism at Oxford and What It Signifies,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 241–245. (HTML)

“Telling the Story of the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 67–82. (HTML)

With Paul Y. Hoskisson, “Was Noah’s Flood the Baptism of the Earth?” in Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top (Provo, UT and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, and Deseret Book, 2016), 163–188. (PDF) (HTML)

“The ‘Fiery Darts of the Adversary’ in 1 Nephi 15:24,” in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18 (2016): 5–9. (HTML)

“Vanquishing the Mormon Menace,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 17 (2016): 171–176. (HTML)

“Book Reviews,” Studia Antiqua: A Student Journal for the Study of the Ancient World 13, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 47–49. (HTML) (PDF)

“Psalm 82: A Latter-day Saint Reading,” in 2014 BYU Religious Education Student Symposium (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 2014), 155–167. (HTML) (PDF)

With Neal Rappleye, “Book of Mormon Minimalists and the NHM Inscriptions: A Response to Dan Vogel,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 8 (2014): 157–185. (HTML)

“Help for the Troubled ‘Young Mormon’,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 8 (2014): 139–146. (HTML)

“The Divine Council in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon,” Studia Antiqua: A Student Journal for the Study of the Ancient World 12, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 1–18. (HTML) (PDF)

“Council, Chaos, & Creation in the Book of Abraham,” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22, no. 2 (2013): 28–39. (HTML)

“‘I am a Son of God’: Moses’ Ascension into the Divine Council,” in 2012 BYU Religious Education Student Symposium (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 2012), 129–143. (HTML) (PDF)

“Shaken Faith Syndrome and the Case for Faith,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 2 (2012): 105–126. (HTML)

“The Faith and Reason of Michael R. Ash,” FARMS Review 21, no. 2 (2009): 225–237. (HTML)