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Moses 7
Videos
Daily Reading Plan
Monday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:1
- Video: Marianna Richardson, What Can We Learn from Enoch? (Moses 7)
- Scripture: Moses 7:1–11
Tuesday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:12
- Video: Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye, Evidence for Enoch in the Pseudepigrapha (Moses 7)
- Scripture: Moses 7:12–17
Wednesday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:18
- Video: Casey Paul Griffiths, Enoch and the People of Zion (Moses 7:18-27)
- Scripture: Moses 7:18–27
Thursday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:28
- Video: Taylor Halverson, God Weeps! (Moses 7)
- Scripture: Moses 7:28–40
Friday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:39
- Video: Lynne Hilton Wilson, Chiasmus in Moses 7
- Scripture: Moses 7:41–47
Saturday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:55
- Video: John Hilton III, Comfort in the Cross (Moses 7:55)
- Scripture: Moses 7:48–59
Sunday
- Daily Verse: Moses 7:60
- Video: Lynne Hilton Wilson, Enoch's Vision of the Last Days (Moses 7:60-69)
- Scripture: Moses 7:60–69
Bibliography
Moses 7
Ben Tov, Yakov. “The Book of Enoch, the Book of Moses, and the Question of Availability.” Faith-Promoting Rumor.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Jacob Rennaker, and David J. Larsen. “Revisiting the forgotten voices of weeping in Moses 7: A comparison with ancient texts.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 2 (2012): 41-71.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “Ancient affinities within the LDS book of Enoch, Part One.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 1–27.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and David J. Larsen. “Ancient affinities within the LDS book of Enoch, Part Two.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 29–74.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “The LDS book of Enoch as the culminating story of a temple text.” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 39–73.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Could Joseph Smith have drawn on ancient manuscripts when he translated the story of Enoch? Recent updates on a persistent question [Response to Cheryl Bruno, Salvatore Cirillo, and others].” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 305–373.
Bruno, Cheryl L. “Congruence and concatenation in Jewish mystical literature, American Freemasonry, and Mormon Enoch Writings.” Journal of Religion and Society 16 (2014): 1–19.
Cirillo, Salvatore. “Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and Enochic Tradition.” Master’s Thesis, Durham University, 2010.
Larsen, David J. “Enoch and the City of Zion: Can an entire community ascend to heaven?” BYU Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 25–37.
Nibley, Hugh W. 1992. “Hugh Nibley on the Book of Enoch.” Excerpted from a FARMS videocassette entitled The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Era Dawns. The video contains material recorded in connection with a National Interfaith Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20 November 1992 in the Kresge Auditorium of Stanford University. Accessed May 20, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tTuzRQ6bcI&t=18. (accessed May 20, 2020).
Nibley, Hugh W. Enoch the Prophet. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 2. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1986.
Pratt, Parley P. “The apocryphal book of Enoch.” Millennial Star 1 (July 1840): 61–63.
Szink, Terrence L. “The Vision of Enoch: Structure of a Masterpiece.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture 17, no. 1–2 (2008): 6–19.
Zinner, Samuel. “‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as Lady Wisdom in Moses 7 and Nephi’s Tree of Life Vision: Reverberations of Enoch and Asherah in Nineteenth Century America.” In Textual and Comparative Explorations in 1 & 2 Enoch, edited by Samuel Zinner. Ancient Scripture and Texts 1, 239–273. Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2014. Reprint, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 12 (2014): 281–323.
Moses 7:1–3
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Enoch, the Prophet and Seer: Enoch’s Transfiguration,” Book of Moses Essay 22 (September 25, 2020).
Moses 7:2
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Textual criticism and the Book of Moses: A response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the sources,’ Part 1.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship (2020): in press. www.templethemes.net.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Matthew L. Bowen, and Ryan Dahle. “Where did the names ‘Mahaway’ and ‘Mahujah’ come from?: A response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the sources,’ Part 2.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship (2020): in press. www.templethemes.net.
Moses 7:5–6
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Enoch, the Prophet and Seer: Enoch’s Prophecy of the Tribes,” Book of Moses Essay 23 (October 2, 2020).
Moses 7:13
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Enoch’s Teaching Mission: The Defeat of the Gibborim and the Roar of the Wild Beasts,” Book of Moses Essay 12 (July 17, 2020).
Moses 7:18
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Enoch the Prophet and Seer: The End of the Wicked and the Beginnings of Zion,” Book of Moses Essay 24 (October 9, 2020).
Pratt, Orson. “Zion of Enoch.” The Seer 2, no. 5 (May 1854): 261–265. Reprint, Orem, UT: Grandin Book Company, 1994.
Young, Brigham. 1873. “The order of Enoch (Remarks delivered in the Bowery, Logan City, Sunday Morning, 29 June 1873).” In Journal of Discourses 16, 122–123. Liverpool and London, England: Latter-day Saints Book Depot, 1853–1886. Reprint, Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1966.
Moses 7:28–29
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “A Chorus of Weeping,” Book of Moses Essay 25 (October 16, 2020).
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 1 — Article Preview: Did God or Enoch weep?” Interpreter Blog, August 27, 2020.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., and Ryan Dahle. “Textual criticism and the Book of Moses: A response to Colby Townsend’s ‘Returning to the sources,’ Part 1.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship (2020): in press. www.templethemes.net.
England, Eugene, “The Weeping God of Mormonism.” Dialogue 35, no. 1 (2002): 63–80.
Peterson, Daniel C. “On the Motif of the Weeping God in Moses 7.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, 285–317. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), 2002.
Moses 7:38
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Enoch’s Teaching Mission: Imprisonment of the Gibborim,” Book of Moses Essay 13 (July 24, 2020).
Moses 7:40
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Weeping Voice of the Heavens,” Book of Moses Essay 27 (October 30, 2020).
Moses 7:41
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Jacob Rennaker, and David J. Larsen, “The Weeping Voice of Enoch,” Book of Moses Essay 28 (November 6, 2020).
Moses 7:48–49
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Complaining Voice of the Earth,” Book of Moses Essay 26 (October 23, 2020).
Skinner, Andrew C. “Joseph Smith vindicated again: Enoch, Moses 7:48, and apocryphal sources.” In Reason, Revelation, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks, 365–381. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), 2002.
Moses 7:64
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Earth Shall Rest,” Book of Moses Essay 29 (November 13, 2020).
Moses 7:69
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “God Receives Zion Unto Himself,” Book of Moses Essay 30 (November 20, 2020).
Ludlow, Jared. “‘Enoch Walked with God, and He Was Not’: Where Did Enoch Go After Genesis?” Presented at the conference entitled “Tracing Ancient Threads of the Book of Moses’ (September 18–19, 2020), Provo, UT: Brigham Young University 2020.