Links to First Vision accounts, essay, and responses

Primary data¹

• Accounts of the First Vision (Joseph Smith Papers)
• Similar First Vision Accounts

Analysis

Sympathetic

• First Vision Accounts churchofjesuschrist.org Essay
• The First Vision: A Narrative from Joseph Smith’s Accounts
• The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast
• Comparisons to other visionary accounts
  • Variants in the Stories of the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the Apostle Paul
  • Why Are there Multiple Accounts of Joseph Smith’s and Alma’s Visions?
  • First Visions and Last Sermons: Affirming Divine Sociality, Rejecting the Greater Apostasy
• CES Letter First Vision Questions (dice1899)

Critical

• LDS Discussions annotated “First Vision Accounts” essay
• Mormonism 101 response
• Mormon Think: The First Vision
• David Twede’s response
• Mormon Primer (see chapter 2)

used to make sense of the primary data. As I use it, primary data may include primary, secondary, and tertiary historical accounts.

1. I distinguish primary data from the models and conjecture ↩