Selected Bibliography

Berrett, William E. Teachings of the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1956.

Caldwell, C. Max. “Revelations, Unpublished.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, 4:1228. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Collier, Fred C., comp. Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 1. Salt Lake City: Collier’s, 1979.

Cowan, Richard O. The Doctrine and Covenants: Our Modern Scripture. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1978.

Cook, Lyndon W. The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985.

Esplin, Scott C., Richard O. Cowan, and Rachel Cope, eds. You Shall Have My Word: Exploring the Text of the Doctrine and Covenants. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012.

Godfrey, Matthew C., et al., eds. Joseph Smith’s Revelations: A Doctrine and Covenants Study Companion from the Joseph Smith Papers. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2020.

Harper, Steven C. “The Making of Modern Scripture: Latter-day Saints and the Book of Commandments and Revelations.” Latter-day Saint Historical Studies 10, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 31–39.

———. Making Sense of the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2008.

Hedges, Andrew W., J. Spencer Fluhman, and Alonzo L. Gaskill, eds. The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2008.

Jensen, Marlin K. “The Joseph Smith Papers: The Manuscript Revelation Books.” Ensign, July 2009, 47–51.

Jensen, Robin Scott. “From Manuscript to Printed Page: An Analysis of the History of the Book of Commandments and Revelations.” BYU Studies Quarterly 48, no. 3 (2009): 19–52.

Largey, Dennis L., ed. Doctrine and Covenants Reference Companion. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012.

Ludlow, Daniel H. A Companion to Your Study of the Doctrine and Covenants, 2 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978.

Manscill, Craig K., ed. Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2004.

Marquardt, H. Michael. The Joseph Smith Revelations: Text and Commentary. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999.

McBride, Matthew, and James Goldberg, eds. Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2016.

Millet, Robert L, and Kent P. Jackson, eds. Studies in Scripture,vol. 1: The Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Randall Books, 1984.

Morrison, Alexander B. “The Latter-day Saint Concept of Canon.” In Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 1–16. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.

Petersen, Melvin J. “Preparing Early Revelations for Publication.” Ensign, February 1985, 14–20.

———. “A Study of the Nature of and the Significance of the Changes in the Revelations as Found in a Comparison of the Book of Commandments and Subsequent Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1955.

Robinson, Stephen E., and H. Dean Garrett. A Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants, 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000–2005.

Smith, Hyrum M., and Janne M. Sjodahl. Doctrine and Covenants Commentary. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1923.

Smith, Joseph. The Parallel Doctrine and Covenants: The 1832–1833, 1833, and 1835 Editions of Joseph Smith’s Revelations. Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2009.

Sperry, Sidney B. Doctrine and Covenants Compendium. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1960.

Staker, Mark L. Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford, 2009.

Turley, Richard E., Jr., and William M. Slaughter. How We Got the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012.

Underwood, Grant. “The Dictation, Compilation, and Canonization of Joseph Smith’s Revelations.” In Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen, and Sharalyn D. Howcroft, 101–23. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

———. “Relishing the Revisions: The Doctrine & Covenants and the Revelatory Process.” In The Expanded Canon: Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts, edited by Blair G. Van Dyke, Brian D. Birch, and Boyd J. Petersen, 171–84. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2018.

———. “Revelation, Text, and Revision: Insight from the Book of Commandments and Revelations.” BYU Studies Quarterly 48, no. 3 (2009): 67–84.

Woodford, Robert J. “Doctrine and Covenants Editions.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, 1:425–27. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

———. “How the Revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants Were Received and Compiled.” Ensign, January 1985, 27–33.

———. “The Story of the Doctrine and Covenants.” Ensign, December 1984, 32–39.

———. “The Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1974.