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Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints

C. Wilfred Griggs, Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Preface
    Noel B. Reynolds, Associate Academic Vice President
  • Whose Apocrypha?
    Viewing Ancient Apocrypha from the Vantage of Events in the Present Dispensation
    Robert J. Matthews
  • Apocryphal Literature and the Latter-day Saints
    Gerald E. Jones
  • The Origin and Formation of the Corpus of Apocryphal Literature
    C. Wilfred Griggs
  • Imitation Gospels and Christ’s Book of Mormon Ministry
    Richard L. Anderson
  • “Whoso Is Enlightened . . . Shall Obtain Benefit”
    The Literary Art of the Apocrypha
    Steven C. Walker
  • Apocryphal Literature—Those “Hidden” Books in the Stacks
    A Selected Bibliography
    Gary P. Gillum
  • Lying for God
    The Uses of Apocrypha
    Stephen E. Robinson
  • The Western Text of the Book of Acts
    A Mirror of the Doctrinal Struggles in the Early Christian Church
    J. Philip Schaelling
  • Premortal Existence, Foreordinations, and Heavenly Councils
    Joseph Fielding McConkie
  • “As Delivered from the Beginning”
    The Formation of the Canonical Gospels
    Robert L. Millet
  • Content and Style in Two Pseudo-Pauline Epistles (3 Corinthians and the Epistle to the Laodiceans)
    Thomas W. Mackay
  • Simon Magus
    History Versus Tradition
    Virigina K. Peterson Rigby
  • The Nag Hammadi Library
    a Mormon Perspective
    S. Kent Brown
  • Melchizedek at Qumran and Nag Hammadi
    Ann N. Madsen
  • The Book of Jasher and the Latter-day Saints
    Edward J. Brandt

About the Book

The Lord has told us that many things in the Apocrypha are true and many false. The fascination that apocryphal writings generally hold for Latter-day Saints was recognized in a 1983 BYU symposium on this topic addressed by fifteen scholars representing a wide range of expertise. Those addresses are collected in this book.

ISBN 0-8849-4574-X

Published in 1986

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