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Steven C.
Harper

A list of my published articles and chapters

Peter and the Restored Priesthood

Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration

"That They Might Come to Understanding": Revelation as Process

"All Things are the Lord's": The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants

“It Maketh My Bones to Quake”: Teaching Doctrine and Covenants 85

Thomas Müntzer and the Radical Reformation

A Seeker's Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision

Evaluating Three Arguments against Joseph Smith’s First Vision

Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision

Forming A Collective Memory of the First Vision from An Eye of Faith

The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni

Joseph Smith and Hearty Repentance

The Eleven Witnesses

Evaluating the Book of Mormon Witnesses

Angels in the Age of Railways

Articles and Chapters

Steven C. Harper

Latest Published Articles

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Document Editing: Helping Students Quench Their Thirst

The Doctrine and Covenants: A Roundtable Discussion, Part 1

The Doctrine and Covenants: A Roundtable Discussion, Part 2

Endowed with Power

Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836

Uniting Faith and History

"Every Man Walketh in His Own Way": Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period

The Law: D&C 42

The Map that Reveals the Deception of the 1737 Walking Purchase

Making History: Documenting the 1737 Walking Purchase

The Making of Modern Scripture: Latter-day Saints and the Book of Commandments and Revelations

Historical Head Notes and the Index of Contents in the Book of Commandments and Revelations

‘Overwhelmingly Democratic’: Cultural Identity in Jackson County, Missouri 1827-1833

The Rich Man, Lazarus, and Doctrine and Covenants 104:18

Mormon Authority and Identity in America

Dictated by Christ: Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation

Oliver Cowdery and the Kirtland Temple Experience

‘A Pentecost and Endowment Indeed’: Six Eyewitness Accounts of the Kirtland Temple

On the Eve of the First Vision

Assemble Together at the Ohio

‘No More Brothers and Friends’: Cultural Identities in the Wake of the Walking Purchase

‘Pentecost Continued’: A Contemporary Account of the Kirtland Temple

Nothing Less Than Miraculous’: The First Decade of Mormonism in Mongolia

Drawing Lessons From a Life: William McLellin 1831-1832

The Restoration of Mormonism in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1830-1833

Infallible Proofs Both Human and Divine: The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts (Juanita Brooks Award)

Mormon Missionaries in America’s Religious Marketplace: Proselyting in the 1830s (T. Edgar Lyon Award)

By No Means Men of Weak Minds: The Gullible Bumpkin Thesis and the First Mormons

Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Revelation

Co-author with Ann Taves, Joseph Smith’s First Vision: New Methods for the Analysis of Experience Related Texts

The First Vision: A Narrative from Joseph Smith’s Accounts

‘The Tithing of My People’: D&C 119-120

Remembering the First Vision

Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saint Temple Endowment Ceremony

‘Ministerial Tramps’: Southern States Missionaries, 1920-1930

Review of Dawn G. Marsh, A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman, in American Historical Review

Review of Patrick Q. Mason, The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South, in American Historical Review

Review of William G. Hartley, Stand by My Servant Joseph: The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration, in Journal of Mormon History

Trustworthy History?: Grant H. Palmer’s An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins

A Portrait of Biographical Excess: Richard S. Van Wagoner’s Sidney Rigdon

Review of Terryl L. Givens, The Viper on the Hearth (New York: Oxford, 1997), Journal of Mormon History29:2 (1999)

Reviews and Review Essays

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