Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints

Title

Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints

Publication Type

Book

Year of Publication

1986

Editors

Griggs, C. Wilfred (Secondary)

Number of Pages

325 Publisher

Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University

City

Provo, UT

ISBN Number

0-8849-4574-X

URL

https://rsc.byu.edu/book/apocryphal-writings-latter-day-saints

Abstract

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.

Table of Contents

15 Chapters

Whose Apocrypha? Viewing Ancient Apocrypha from the Vantage of Events in the Present Dispensation

Matthews, Robert J. | pp. 1-18

Apocryphal Literature and the Latter-Day Saints

Jones, Gerald E. | pp. 19-33

The Origin and Formation of the Corpus of Apocryphal Literature

Griggs, C. Wilfred | pp. 35-52

Imitation Gospels and Christ’s Book of Mormon Ministry

Anderson, Richard Lloyd | pp. 53-107

“Whoso Is Enlightened . . . Shall Obtain Benefit”: The Literary Art of the Apocrypha

Walker, Steven C. | pp. 109-124

Apocryphal Literature—Those “Hidden” Books in the Stacks: A Selected Bibliography

Gillum, Gary P. | pp. 125-131

Lying for God: The Uses of the Apocrypha

Robinson, Stephen E. | pp. 133-154

The Western Text of the Book of Acts: A Mirror of the Doctrinal Struggles in the Early Christian Church

Schaelling, J. Philip | pp. 155-172

Premortal Existence, Foreordinations, and Heavenly Councils

McConkie, Joseph Fielding | pp. 174-198

“As Delivered from the Beginning”: The Formation of the Canonical Gospels

Millet, Robert L. | pp. 199-213

Content and Style in Two Pseudo-Pauline Epistles (3 Corinthians and the Epistle to the Laodiceans)

Mackay, Thomas W. | pp. 215-240

Simon Magus: History Versus Tradition

Rigby, Virginia K. Peterson | pp. 241-253

The Nag Hammadi Library: A Mormon Perspective

Brown, S. Kent | pp. 255-283

Melchizedek at Qumran and Nag Hammadi

Madsen, Ann N. | pp. 285-295

The Book of Jasher and the Latter-day Saints

Brandt, Edward J. | pp. 297-318

Subject Keywords

Apocrypha

Bibliographic Citation

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