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Moses 1; Abraham 3
BMC Projects for the Old Testament
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Taylor M. Halverson, General Editor
Videos for This Week
Daily Reading Plan
Monday
- Scripture: Moses 1:1–11
- Video: Marianna Richardson, Moses's Temple Experience (Moses 1:9-10)
Further Reading
- Book of Moses Essay 31: Heavenly Ascent and Ritual Ascent
- Book of Moses Essay 32: The Two-Part Pattern of Heavenly and Ritual Ascent
Tuesday
- Scripture: Moses 1:12–23
- Video: John Hilton III, How Does Moses Teach Us to Resist Temptation? (Moses 1:12-23)
Further Reading
- Video: Lynne Hilton Wilson, God and Satan in the Bible and the Book of Mormon (Moses 1:12-23)
- Book of Moses Essay 35: Moses Falls to the Earth
- Book of Moses Essay 36: Moses Defeats Satan
Wednesday
- Scripture: Moses 1:24–35
- Video: Casey Paul Griffiths, Jesus Christ Is the Redeemer of the Universe (Moses 1:24-35)
Further Reading
- Book of Moses Essay 38: Moses Passes Through the Heavenly Veil
- Book of Moses Essay 40: Moses’ vision at the Veil
- Book of Moses Essay 41: Moses in the Presence of God
Thursday
- Scripture: Moses 1:36–42
- Video: Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye, My Work and My Glory Is Ascending Back to God (Moses 1:39)
Further Reading
- Book of Moses Essay 42: The Words of God
Friday
- Scripture: Abraham 3:1–11
- Video: Taylor Halverson, Abraham's Cosmology (Abraham 3:1-11)
Further Reading
- Book of Abraham Insight 15: Abrahamic Astronomy
- Book of Abraham Insight 17: Kolob, The Governing One
Saturday
- Scripture: Abraham 3:12–20
Further Reading
- Book of Abraham Insight 16: Shinehah, The Sun
- Book of Abraham Insight 13: The Ancient Egyptian View of Abraham
Sunday
- Scripture: Abraham 3:21–28
Further Reading
- Book of Abraham Insight 18: The Divine Council
- Book of Abraham Insight 21: The Foreordination of Abraham
Further Reading
Davies, LeGrande. Introduction to the Old Testament., 2022.
Moses 1
Belnap, Daniel. “‘Where is thy glory’: Moses 1, the nature of truth, and the plan of salvation.” Religious Educator 10, no. 2 (2009): 163–179.
Book of Mormon Central, “How Do the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Endowment? (1 Nephi 11:1),” KnoWhy 396 (January 4, 2018).
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Heavenly Ascent and Ritual Ascent,” Book of Moses Essay 31 (November 27, 2020).
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Two-Part Pattern of Heavenly and Ritual Ascent,” Book of Moses Essay 32 (December 4, 2020).
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses 1 as a Missing Prologue to Genesis,” Book of Moses Essay 33 (December 11, 2020).
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. “Book of Moses Textual Criticism 3: Was the Book of Moses simply an unplanned afterthought to Moses 1? A response to Thomas A. Wayment. ‘Intertextuality and the purpose of Joseph Smith’s new translation of the Bible.’” Interpreter Blog, September 10, 2020.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock. “Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin sons of different mothers?” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 38 (2020): 179–290.
Clark, E. Douglas. “A prologue to Genesis: Moses 1 in light of Jewish traditions.” BYU Studies 45, no. 1 (2006): 129–142.
Mark J. Johnson, “Hebrew Literary Features of Moses 1,” Book of Moses Essay 44 (February 26, 2021).
Johnson, Mark J. “The lost prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 145–186.
Nibley, Hugh W. “To open the last dispensation: Moses chapter 1.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless: Classic Essays of Hugh W. Nibley, edited by Truman G. Madsen, 1–20. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1978.
Townsend, Colby (under the pseudonym of Hans Rosekat). “The King James Bible in the Book of Moses, Part 1.” Rational Faiths. April, 12, 2014.
Moses 1:1
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses in the Spirit World,” Book of Moses Essay 34 (December 18, 2020).
Moses 1:9–10
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock “Moses Falls to the Earth,” Book of Moses Essay 35 (December 25, 2020).
Book of Mormon Central, “Why Are People Exhausted by Powerful Spiritual Experiences? (Alma 19:6),” KnoWhy 460 (August 21, 2018).
Moses 1:12
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses Defeats Satan,” Book of Moses Essay 36 (January 1, 2021).
Moses 1:24
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses Ascends to Heaven,” Book of Moses Essay 37 (January 8, 2021).
Moses 1:25
Matthew L. Bowen and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “A Literary Masterpiece: Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize,” Book of Moses Essay 43 (February 19, 2021).
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses Passes Through the Heavenly Veil,” Book of Moses Essay 38 (January 16, 2021).
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “The Names of Moses as ‘Keywords,’” Book of Moses Essay 39 (January 22, 2021).
Moses 1:27
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses’ vision at the Veil,” Book of Moses Essay 40 (January 29, 2021).
Moses 1:31
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, “Moses in the Presence of God,” Book of Moses Essay 41 (February 5, 2021).
Moses 1:41
Bowen, Matthew L. “‘And They Shall Be Had Again’: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 32 (2019): 297–304.
Moses 1:42
Matthew L. Bowen and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Words of God,” Book of Moses Essay 42 (February 12, 2021).
Abraham 3
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. “The Role of the Book of Abraham in the Restoration,” FARMS Report (1997).
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, edited by John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid, 1-16. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Ludlow, Jared W.. "Abraham's Vision of the Heavens." In Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, edited by John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid, 57-73. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2005.
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 the Creation in the Book of Abraham." In Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, edited by John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid, 17-36. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Abraham 3:1
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Abrahamic Legends and Lore,” Book of Abraham Insight 12 (September 24, 2019).
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Abrahamic Astronomy,” Book of Abraham Insight 15 (October 15, 2019).
Abraham 3:3
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Kolob, The Governing One,” Book of Abraham Insight 17 (October 29, 2019).
Sjodahl, Janne M. “The Word ‘Kolob’,” Improvement Era, April 1913, 620–624.
Abraham 3:13
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Shinehah, The Sun,” Book of Abraham Insight 16 (October 23, 2019).
Abraham 3:15
Pearl of Great Price Central, “The Ancient Egyptian View of Abraham,” Book of Abraham Insight 13 (October 3, 2019).
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Abrahamic Legends and Lore,” Book of Abraham Insight 12 (September 24, 2019).
Abraham 3:17–18
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Egyptianisms in the Book of Abraham,” Book of Abraham Insight 25 (December 27, 2019).
Abraham 3:22–28
Godfrey, Kenneth W. “The History of Intelligence in Latter-day Saint Thought,” in The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God edited by H. Donl Pererson and Charles D. Tate. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, 1989).
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.
Pearl of Great Price Central, “The Divine Council,” Book of Abraham Insight 18 (November 6, 2019).
Pearl of Great Price Central, “The Foreordination of Abraham,” Book of Abraham Insight 18 (November 30, 2019).
Pearl of Great Price Central, “Chiasmus in the Book of Abraham,” Book of Abraham Insight 24 (December 19, 2019).
Pearl of Great Price Central, “The Fall of Lucifer,” Book of Abraham Insight 26 (January 3, 2020).
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.
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.
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.