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Key sources
  • Dallin H. Oaks, “Gospel Teachings About Lying,” BYU Fireside Address, 12 September 1993, typescript, no page numbers; also printed in Clark Memorandum [of the J. Reuben Clark School of Law, Brigham Young University] (Spring 1994).
FAIR links
  • Allen L. Wyatt, "Answering Shotgun Anti-Mormonism" FAIR link
  • Daniel C. Peterson, "Easier Than Research, More Inflammatory Than Truth." FAIR link
  • Davis Bitton, "I Don't Have a Testimony of the History of the Church," (FAIR Conference, 2004) FAIR link
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Scholarship in Mormonism and Mormonism in Scholarship." FAIR link
  • Juliann Reynolds, "Critics in Wonderland: Through the Liberal Looking Glass." FAIR link
  • L. Ara Norwood, "Nehors in the Land: A Latter-day Variation of an Ancient Theme." FAIR link
  • Scott Gordon, "Dealing with Difficult Issues." FAIR link
Online
  • Dean C. Jessee, "Priceless Words and Fallible Memories: Joseph Smith as Seen in the Effort to Preserve His Discourses," Brigham Young University Studies 31 no. 2 (1991), ?–??.off-site
  • Dean C. Jessee, "The Writing of Joseph Smith's History [1839–46]," Brigham Young University Studies 11 no. 4 (1972), 439. PDF linkoff-site
  • Howard C. Searle, "Authorship of the History of Brigham Young: A Review Essay," Brigham Young University Studies 22 no. 3 (1982), 367.
  • Howard C. Searle, "Authorship of the History of Joseph Smith: A Review Essay," Brigham Young University Studies 21 no. 1 (1981), 101. PDF linkoff-site
  • Dean C. Jessee, "I have heard that Joseph Smith didn't actually write his history—that it was prepared by clerks under his direction. If so, how reliable is it?," Ensign (July 1985), 15.off-site
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