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Adams, William James Jr. “Human Sacrifice and the Book of Abraham,” BYU Studies 9, no. 4 (Summer 1969): 473–480.

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Calabro, David. “The Choreography of Genesis: The Book of Abraham as a Ritual Text,” in Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning: Proceedings of the Third Interpreter Matthew B. Brown Memorial Conference “The Temple on Mount Zion,” 5 November 2016, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation; Salt Lake City, UT: Eborn Books, 2020), 241–261.

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Givens, Terryl L. When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2009).

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Barney, Quinten. “The Neglected Facsimile: An Examination and Comparative Study of Facsimile No. 3 of The Book of Abraham,” MA thesis, Brigham Young University, 2019.

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“Prolegomena to a Study of the Egyptian Alphabet Documents in the Joseph Smith Papers,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42 (2021): 77–98.

—  “Four Idolatrous Gods in the Book of Abraham,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 38 (2020): 133-152.

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—“An Egyptian View of Abraham,” in Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, ed. Andrew C. Skinner, D. Morgan Davis, and Carl Griffin (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2011), 137–156.

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— “A Tragedy of Errors,” Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 4, no. 1 (1992): 93–119.

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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, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 1–16.

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— “Approaching Egyptian Papyri through Biblical Language: Joseph Smith’s Use of Hebrew in His Translation of the Book of Abraham,” in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, ed. Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 2020), 390—451.

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— “Papyri and Presumptions: A Careful Examination of the Eyewitness Accounts Associated with the Joseph Smith Papyri,” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (October 2016): 31–50.

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“Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: Some Questions and Answers,” Religious Educator 11, no. 1 (2010): 90–106.

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“The Book of Breathings in Its Place,” FARMS Review 17, no. 2 (2005): 471–486.

“Prelude to the Pearl: Sweeping Events Leading to the Discovery of the Book of Abraham,” in Prelude to the Restoration: From Apostasy to the Restored Church (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2004), 130–41.

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Muhlestein, Kerry and Megan Hansen, “‘The Work of Translating’: The Book of Abraham’s Translation Chronology,” in Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millett, ed. J. Spencer Fluhman and Brent L. Top (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center and Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2016), 139–162.

Nadig, Peter C. “‘We Beg You, Our King!’: Some Reflections on the Jews in Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt,” in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2005), 83–93.

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— “Abraham’s Creation Drama,” in The Temple in Time and Eternity, ed. Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1999), 1–42.

“What, Exactly, Is the Purpose and Significance of the Facsimiles in the Book of Abraham?” Ensign, March 1976, 34–36.

“The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers,” BYU Studies 11, no. 4 (Summer 1971): 350–399.

“What is The Book of Breathings?” BYU Studies 11, no. 2 (Winter 1971): 153-187.

“As Things Stand at the Moment,” BYU Studies 9, no. 1 (1969): 69–102.

“Getting Ready to Begin: An Editorial,” BYU Studies 8, no. 3 (1968): 245–254.

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“Part 1: Challenge and Response (Continued),” Improvement Era, February 1968, 14–21.
“Part 1: Challenge and Response (Continued),” Improvement Era, March 1968, 16–22.
“Part 1: Challenge and Response (Continued),” Improvement Era, April 1968, 64–69. 
“Part 2: May We See Your Credentials?” Improvement Era, May 1968, 54–57.
“Part 2: May We See Your Credentials? (Continued),” Improvement Era, June 1968, 18–22.
“Part 3: Empaneling the Panel,” Improvement Era, July 1968, 48–55.
“[Part 4:] Second String,” Improvement Era, August 1968, 53–64.
“Part 5: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document,” Improvement Era, September 1968, 66–80.
“Part 5: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document (Continued),” Improvement Era, October 1968, 73–81.
“Part 6: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document,” Improvement Era, November 1968, 36–44.
“Part 6: Facsimile No. 1, A Unique Document (Continued),” Improvement Era, December 1968, 28–33.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham,” Improvement Era, January 1969, 26–33.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, February 1969, 64–67.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, March 1969, 76–84.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, April 1969, 66–72.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, May 1969, 87–91.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, June 1969, 126–132.
“Part 7: The Unknown Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, July 1969, 97–111.
“Part 8: Facsimile No. 1, by the Figures (Continued),” Improvement Era, August 1969, 75–87.
“Part 8: Facsimile No. 1, by the Figures (Continued),” Improvement Era, September 1969, 85–95.
“Part 8: Facsimile No. 1, by the Figures (Continued),” Improvement Era, October 1969, 85–95.
“Part 9: Setting the Stage – The World of Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, November 1969, 116–126.
“Part 9: Setting the Stage – The World of Abraham (Continued),” Improvement Era, January 1970, 56–65.
“Part 10: The Sacrifice of Isaac,” Improvement Era, March 1970, 84–94.
“Part 11: The Sacrifice of Sarah,” Improvement Era, April 1970, 79–95.
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