Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Editor: Joseph M. Spencer

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Issued Annually: SPRING
ISSN: 2374-4766
eISSN: 2374-4774
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The University of Illinois Press is no longer the publisher of Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. Please contact the Neal A. Maxwell Institute with any questions.

Established in 1992 by founding editor Stephen D. Ricks, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies is the leading venue for scholarly work on the Book of Mormon. The journal publishes research articles, research notes, book reviews, review essays, literature reviews, and interviews focused on the Book of Mormon. The journal serves a general readership, including scholars interested in the Book of Mormon as an object of research and lay readers hoping to learn more about their sacred text. It thus aims at producing top-rate scholarship working at the highest academic level, even as it asks contributors to recognize the ethical complexity of dealing with a text held sacred by believers. Peer reviewers are drawn from a wide range of relevant disciplines and a variety of academic institutions.

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Editors

Editor
Joseph M. Spencer, Brigham Young University

Associate Editors
Matthew Bowman, Henderson State University
Amy Easton-Flake, Brigham Young University
Jacob Rennaker, John A. Widtsoe Foundation
Andrew Smith, Brigham Young University
Rosalynde Welch, Independent Scholar

Book Review Editor
Janiece Johnson, Brigham Young University-Idaho

Journal Advisory Board

  • D. Morgan Davis, Neal A. Maxwell Institute
  • Elizabeth Fenton, University of Vermont
  • Paul Gutjahr, Indiana University
  • Kristian Heal, Neal A. Maxwell Institute
  • Kerry Hull, Brigham Young University
  • Robin Jensen, Joseph Smith Papers
  • Patrick Q. Mason, Claremont Graduate University
  • Max Perry Mueller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Tammi J. Schneider, Claremont Graduate University
  • John Christopher Thomas, Pentecostal Theological Seminary and Bangor University

Editors Emeriti

  • Stephen D. Ricks
  • John L. Sorenson
  • S. Kent Brown
  • Andrew Hedges
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson
  • Brian M. Hauglid

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Featured Articles



2 Nephi 25:23 in Literary and Rhetorical Context
Daniel O. McClellan
https://doi.org/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0001
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0001

Lehi's Brass Ball: Astonishment and Inscription
Rosalynde Welch
https://doi.org/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0020
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0020

Prophets and Prophecy in the Qur'an and the Book of Mormon
D. Morgan Davis
https://doi.org/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0050
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0050

Imaginings of the Book of Mormon: A Comparison of Arnold Friberg's and Minerva Teichert's Book of Mormon Paintings
Rebekah Westrup
https://doi.org/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0085
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0085

On Zeezrom's Conversion: Rationality, Tradition, and Money
Robert Couch
https://doi.org/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0120
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0120

The Language of Repentance in the Book of Mormon
Noel B. Reynolds
https://doi.org/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0178
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jbookmormstud2.29.2020.0178

The Book of Mormon, Zion, and the Invisible Church
Terryl Givens
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article/doi/10.14321/23744774.32.03/380327/The-Book-of-Mormon-Zion-and-the-Invisible-Church

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Future of Comparative and Historical Approaches
Avram R. Shannon
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article/doi/10.14321/23744774.32.04/380319/Standing-on-the-Shoulders-of-Giants-The-Future-of

If You Build It, They Will Come: The Field of Book of Mormon Reception History
Janiece Johnson
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article/doi/10.14321/23744774.32.05/380321/If-You-Build-It-They-Will-Come-The-Field-of-Book

The Book of Mormon and Book History
Elizabeth Fenton
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article/doi/10.14321/23744774.32.06/380323/The-Book-of-Mormon-and-Book-History

The Book of Mormon and Book History
Elizabeth Fenton
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article/doi/10.14321/23744774.32.06/380323/The-Book-of-Mormon-and-Book-History

History, Religious Studies, and Book of Mormon Studies
Patrick Q. Mason
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jbms/article/doi/10.5406/23744774.31.03/381236/History-Religious-Studies-and-Book-of-Mormon

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