Outline of the Book of Mormon

Last updated February 10, 2025

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Book of Mormon:

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.^[1]^[2] It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

What "type" of thing is the Book of Mormon?

The Book of Mormon can be described as all of the following:

Scripture –
- Revelation (Latter Day Saints) –
  - Standard works –
    - Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates –
      - Literature –
        Book –

Books of the Book of Mormon

Historicity of Book of Mormon

Historicity of the Book of Mormon

Origin of Book of Mormon

Origin of the Book of Mormon

Book of Mormon witnesses

Main article

Book of Mormon witnesses

Three Witnesses

Eight Witnesses

Another Witness

Mary Whitmer

Prophets and People

Places

List of Book of Mormon places
- City of Aaron
- Ablom
- Plains of Agosh
- Wilderness of Akish
- Valley of Alma
- City of Ammonihah
- Hill Amnihu
- Land of Amulon
- Angola
- Ani-Anti
- Land of Antionum
- Antiparah
- Mount Antipas
- Boaz
- City of Bountiful (Book of Mormon)
- Hill Comnor
- City of Cumeni
- Cumorah
- Desolation
- Land of first inheritance
- Lehi-Nephi
- Valley of Lemuel
- Waters of Mormon
- Land of Moron
- Nahom
- Narrow neck of land
- Narrow strip of wilderness
- City of Nephi
- Land northward
- Hill Shim
- River Sidon
- Land Southward
- Zarahemla

Book of Mormon words and phrases

Plan of salvation (Latter Day Saints)
- Spirit world (Latter Day Saints)

Book of Mormon artifacts

Organizations that study the Book of Mormon

By Study and Also By Faith, a documentary video about the Maxwell Institute.

Publications about the Book of Mormon

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
International Journal of Mormon Studies
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Mormon Studies Review (journal)
Studies of the Book of Mormon (book of essays)
Sunstone (magazine)

Book of Mormon scholars

John W. Welch

Films about the Book of Mormon

LDS Church films
- How Rare a Possession
- Book of Mormon Videos
LDS cinema
- The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey
- Passage to Zarahemla

References

↑ Gordon B. Hinckley, "Praise to the Man" Archived 2012-06-08 at the Wayback Machine , 1979-11-04.
↑ Church Educational System (1996, rev. ed.). Book of Mormon Student Manual (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), ch. 6.

External links

Interactive reading

Book of Mormon Online

Historic versions

Facsimile of the 1830 edition
RLDS 1908 Book of Mormon (RLDS chapters and numbering)
The Book of Mormon; An Account Written By the Hand of Mormon Upon Plates Taken From the Plates of Nephi. From the Collections at the Library of Congress

Videos

Book of Mormon's channel on YouTube

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[1] Gordon B. Hinckley, "Praise to the Man" Archived 2012-06-08 at the Wayback Machine , 1979-11-04.

[2] Church Educational System (1996, rev. ed.). Book of Mormon Student Manual (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), ch. 6.

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