1. Introduction / Noel B. Reynolds -- pt. I. The nineteenth-century origin of the Book of Mormorn (2. The recovery of the Book of Mormorn / Richard L. Bushman -- 3. Personal writings of the Book of Mormon witnesses / Richard L. Anderson -- 4. Translating the Book of Mormon : evidence from the original manuscript / Royal Skousen) -- pt. II. The logical structure of the authorship debate (5. Who really wrote the Book of Mormon? : the critics and their theories / Louis C. Midgley -- 6. Is the Book of Mormon true? : notes on the debate / Daniel C. Peterson -- 7. Complexity, consistency, ignorance, and probabilities / Melvin J. Thorne) -- pt. III. Letting the text speak for itself (8. What does chiasmus in the Book of Mormon prove? / John W. Welch -- 9. On verifying wordprint studies : Book of Mormon authorship / John L. Hilton -- 10. How many Nephites? : the Book of Mormon at the bar of demography / James E. Smith -- 11. Power through repetition : the dynamics of Book of Mormon parallelism / Donald W. Parry -- 12. The voice of an angel / John A. Tvedtnes -- 13. The narratives of Zosimus (History of the Rechabites) and the Book of Mormon / John W. Welch) -- pt. IV. Locating the Book of Mormon geographically and culturally (14. Lehi's Arabian journey updated / Noel B. Reynolds -- 15. The Book of Mormon as a Mesoamerican record / John L. Sorenson -- 16. The importance of warfare in Book of Mormon studies / William J. Hamblin).
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