Oliver Cowdery Bibliography

Anderson, Richard L. “Reuben Miller, Recorder of Oliver Cowdery’s Reaffirmations.” BYU Studies 8, no. 3 (1968): 277–293.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration.” Improvement Era 71, no. 9 (September 1968): 15–24.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Second Witness of Priesthood Succession.” Improvement Era 71, no. 11 (November 1968): 14–20.

Anderson, Richard L. “The Impact of the First Preaching in Ohio.” BYU Studies 11, no. 4 (1971): 474–496.

Anderson, Richard L. “Oliver Cowdery, Esq.: His Non-Church Decade.” In To the Glory of God: Mormon Essays on Great Issues—Environment, Commitment, Love, Peace, Youth, Man, 199–216. Edited by Truman G. Madsen and Charles D. Tate Jr. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1972.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses, 37–65. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1981.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Credibility of the Book of Mormon Translators.” In Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, 213–237.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Did Oliver Cowdery, one of the three special Book of Mormon witnesses, express doubt about his testimony?” Ensign, April 1987, 23–25.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Cowdery, Oliver.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., 1:335–340. Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1993.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Oliver Cowdery’s Voice in Modern Scripture: Priesthood Restoration, Book of Mormon, and the Articles of Faith.” FARMS Paper, 1997.

Arrington, Leonard J. “Oliver Cowdery’s Kirtland, Ohio ‘Sketch Book’.” BYU Studies 12, no. 4 (1972): 410–426.

Baugh, Alexander, ed. Days Never to be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery. Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.

Bishop, Patrick A. “An Original Daguerreotype of Oliver Cowdery Identified.” BYU Studies 45, no. 2 (2006): 101–111.

Book of Mormon Central, “How Important was Oliver Cowdery in Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon? (2 Nephi 27:9),” KnoWhy 270 (February 3, 2017). https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/how-important-was-oliver-cowdery-in-bringing-forth-the-book-of-mormon.

Cannon, Brian Q. and BYU Studies Staff. “The Earliest Accounts of the Restoration of the Priesthood.” In Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844, 2nd edition, 229–246. Edited by John W. Welch. Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Press, 2017.

Faulring, Scott H. “The Book of Mormon: A Blueprint for Organizing the Church.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 7, no. 1 (1998): 60–69, 71.

Faulring, Scott H. “The Return of Oliver Cowdery.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, 117–173. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000.

Faulring, Scott H. “An Examination of the 1829 ‘Articles of the Church of Christ’ in Relation to Section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants.” BYU Studies 43, no. 4 (2004): 57–91.

Faulring, Scott H. “Oliver Cowdery, Book of Mormon Scribe.” In Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet, 85–94. Edited by Susan Easton Black and Andrew C. Skinner. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2005.

Gunn, Stanley R. Oliver Cowdery: Second Elder and Scribe. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1962.

Hartley, William G. “‘Upon You My Fellow Servants’: Restoration of the Priesthood.” In The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith, 49–72. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1988.

Legg, Phillip R. Oliver Cowdery: The Elusive Second Elder of the Restoration. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1989.

Morris, Larry E. “Oliver Cowdery’s Vermont Years and the Origins of Mormonism.” BYU Studies 39, no. 1 (2000): 107–129.

Morris, Larry E. “‘The Private Character of the Man Who Bore That Testimony’: Oliver Cowdery and his Critics.” FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 311–351.

Morris, Larry E. “The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16, no. 1 (2007): 4–17, 81–83.

Morris, Larry E. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon, 287–291, 309–310, 342, 370–372. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Vogel, Dan. “Introduction to Oliver Cowdery Collection.” In Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols., 2:397–401. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1996–2003.

Welch, John W. “Oliver Cowdery’s 1835 Response to Alexander Campbell’s 1831 ‘Delusions’.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, 435–458. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges. Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000.

Welch, John W. and Larry E. Morris, eds. Oliver Cowdery: Scribe, Elder, Witness. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2006.

 

Compiled by Neal Rappleye and used with the permission of Book of Mormon Central.