A Latter-day Saint Christian View
Browse/Purchase BooksBooks for Latter-day Saints and for all Christians who love the Bible and want to know the world in which it was written. Each one reads like a story as well as a study, with splashes of color from the ancient world set beside the scriptures.
The pages are full of vibrant detail: the smoke rising from Adam's first altar, the dust of the camp around the Tabernacle, the hum of pilgrims in the Temple courts at the feasts. Timelines, maps and charts show you where and when you are standing. Author's Spotlights bring rich insights, and every insight is tied back to the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, so you can weigh it against the scriptures yourself.
Step into the world of the scriptures
Imagine kneeling with Adam and Eve outside the gate of Eden on their first night in the lone and dreary world. Climbing the steps of Herod's Temple as the morning sacrifice is laid on the altar. Hearing a Levite singer call across the gulf of the spirit world to the brother he lost.
These books help you immerse yourself in the scriptures and understand the backdrop you are standing in when you read. The standard works always come first. Beside them, each book takes a shallow dive into the writings of the ancient world, adding splashes of color to the story you already know.
What did Moses see on the mountain before he ever wrote a word of Genesis?
The Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. Every chapter starts here, with the revealed word set in its own scroll frame. Modern revelation fills in what the Bible leaves unsaid, like the vision of Moses and the words of Adam and Enoch, and everything else in these books is measured against it.
Found in every book
What would you have seen if you were standing in the crowd?
Imagined characters who stand at the edges of real events and watch them unfold: Abilene, a ministering angel; Asher, a Levite singer; a family of priest-masons building Herod's Temple. They never change what the scriptures say. They give you eyes and ears in the crowd, so the backdrop comes alive. Every narrative is printed in brown and labeled as fiction.
Found in On the Sixth Day, Resurrection, Out of Their Prison and From Tabernacle to Temple
Did you know there is a psalm young David sang as a shepherd that isn't in your Bible?
Books such as Tobit, Judith, Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, kept beside the Bible for centuries and printed in many Bibles, though not canonized. Meet faithful Tobit in Nineveh, hear the song of the three in the fiery furnace, and read Psalm 151.
Found in the Ethiopian Bible volumes and Resurrection
The Epistle of Jude quotes a prophecy of Enoch. Where did Jude read it?
Ancient writings such as the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees and the Conflict of Adam and Eve. Two of them survive whole only in Ethiopia. They show how early believers pictured the Creation, the Watchers, and Adam and Eve's long struggle after the garden.
Found in the Ethiopian Bible volumes, On the Sixth Day and Resurrection
What did a priest see as he walked through the courts of the Temple where Jesus taught?
The teachings of the sages in the Mishnah and their teaching stories, held sacred by the Jewish people as part of the Oral Torah, along with the eyewitness histories of Josephus. They open up the daily life of the Temple, the priests and the feasts that Jesus knew.
Found in From Tabernacle to Temple and Out of Their Prison
Every passage is set apart, labeled and weighed against the standard works, so these writings add color without ever replacing the revealed word. As the Lord counseled about such books, "whoso is enlightened by the Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom" (D&C 91:5).
A look inside · On the Sixth Day
Four sample pages from different parts of the book. Each kind of material has its own look, so you always know whether you are reading scripture, an ancient writing or the author's story. Tap a page to read it full size.
The order of witnesses
Doctrine, tradition, scholarship and story are kept in separate labeled boxes, so you always know which is which. No book introduces new doctrine.
In the text, the words of the Lord God are printed in red, and the author's fictional narrative in brown.
Reading path · in biblical order
From the council in heaven to the Second Coming, told through scripture with a short labeled narrative by Abilene, an imagined ministering angel who watches it unfold.
A Narrative of the Creation, the Fall, and the Conflict of Adam and Eve
What might a ministering angel have seen on the sixth day?
From the council in heaven to Cain and Abel, the story of Adam and Eve told through the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, Genesis and Isaiah, with ancient writings such as the Book of Jubilees set alongside and labeled.
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This book follows our first parents from the world of light before the Creation, through the council in heaven and the fall of Lucifer, into the Garden of Eden, and out into the lone and dreary world, as far as the offerings of Cain and Abel and the generations that followed.
The spine of the work is scripture: the Book of Moses and the Book of Abraham, with Genesis and Isaiah from the King James Bible. Ancient writings such as the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Jasher are set alongside, labeled, and read in the spirit of Doctrine and Covenants 91.
Abilene, the narrator, is an imagined character. His story is labeled as fiction throughout.
The Lamb, the Adversary and the Fallen Angels. A Long War: from the Council in Heaven to the Second Coming of Christ
What did the adversary never understand about the mind of God?
Every time the adversary thought he had won, he lost. From the council in heaven to Eden, the Flood, Calvary, the empty tomb and the Second Coming, this book traces the long war through the Bible, the Book of Mormon and latter-day revelation.
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In the council in heaven, in Eden, at Abel's altar, in the days of Noah, at Calvary and through the long night of apostasy, the adversary's victories turned to defeat, because he "knew not the mind of God."
It draws first on the four standard works, then on latter-day prophets and Latter-day Saint scholarship. Beside the scriptures stand ancient witnesses from the Ethiopian Bible: 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach and Baruch, each passage labeled and weighed against standard scripture.
A short narrative in each chapter, set apart and labeled as fiction, brings the scriptures to life.
Ancient witnesses quoted in Resurrection · three volumes
For more than fifteen centuries the Ethiopian church kept books the rest of the world let fall. Two of them, the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees, survive whole only in Ge'ez. These volumes set them in timeline order, with maps, timelines and about a thousand notes to the standard works, read in the spirit of Doctrine and Covenants 91.
Each volume is ordered separately.
Volume One
What did Enoch see when he walked with God?
Jubilees, 1 Enoch (the book quoted in the Epistle of Jude), Psalm 151, the Wisdom of Solomon, Tobit and the Prayer of Manasseh, arranged in timeline order with timelines, maps, notes to the standard works and Book of Mormon parallels.
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Volume Two
Have you heard of the books of Meqabyan? They are found only in the Ethiopian Bible.
1 Esdras, Judith, the additions to Daniel and Esther, the Letter of Jeremiah, Baruch and the Rest of the Words of Baruch, 4 Ezra, Sirach, and the three books of Meqabyan, which are found only in the Ethiopian Bible.
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Volume Three
How did the earliest Christians order their church after the apostles were gone?
The Testament of Our Lord, the Sinodos, the Didascalia and the Book of Clement, early church orders kept by the Ethiopian church, read beside the New Testament and the Savior's church among the Nephites. The Book of Clement appears here in English from Grébaut's French and the Ge'ez.
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The Spirits in Prison, the Mission to the Dead, and One Family's Long Road Home
Can those who died without the gospel still find their way home?
What of the countless millions who died never knowing the word of God? Is the grave the end of God's mercy? This book traces the Lord's mission to the dead, from the Sheol of the Old Testament to the vision of 1918 and the temples of today.
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Woven through every chapter is one imagined family across twenty-six centuries, told by Asher, a Levite singer, and a grandson today. Their story is labeled as fiction.
Reading path · the temple library
From Adam's altar to the burning of Herod's Temple, the house of the Lord stands at the heart of the scriptures.
The Place the Lord Shall Choose
What was it like to stand in the courts of the house of the Lord, and what happened when it burned?
The altars of the patriarchs, the Tabernacle, Solomon's Temple, the Second Temple raised from exile, and Herod's great house where Jesus taught, told from the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Josephus and the Mishnah.
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In AD 70 Rome burned the house, and the altar fell silent. From its ashes two paths took their lasting shape. The sages turned Judaism toward prayer, study and the synagogue. The followers of Jesus, who already preached the Lamb offered "once for all," were set on a road of their own.
Each chapter opens with a synopsis and a guide to what to read alongside in the Bible. Highlights include Melchizedek, the priests of the Nephites, "Inside the House of the Lord," the Sanhedrin, Yavneh and the Mishnah, and "The Final Sacrifice."
An imagined priestly family, followed across the centuries, shows what life under the law was like. Their story is labeled as fiction.
My Father's House · a set of two books
The rise of Herod's Temple (63 BC to AD 25) and its fall (AD 28 to 135), with full-page Temple illustrations and the story of one family of priest-masons and a line of Roman soldiers, all labeled as fiction.
Each book in the set is ordered separately.
Reading path · for hard times
Why hard things happen, how the adversary works and where his power ends, and how the Lord brings His children back to Him. Includes a book written for teens.
Why God Wakes His Children to Prayer
Why does the Lord let hard things come, and what does He do with them?
In good times we forget; in hard times we pray. Drawing on the Bible, the Book of Mormon and latter-day revelation, this book follows the ways the Lord wakes His children to remember Him, and answers honestly why bad things happen to good people.
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Not every hardship is a reminder, and no reader's suffering should be taken as punishment, but the Lord can make every one "work together for your good" (D&C 98:3).
Beside the teaching runs one imagined family's hard winter in Rexburg, Idaho, and the generations behind them. Their story is labeled as fiction.
A Compendium for Spiritual Self-Defense
What are the quiet ways the adversary pulls us away, and how do we stand?
Scripture and the words of latter-day prophets on the adversary's methods, his limits, and the power of Jesus Christ to overcome him. Every chapter ends with the opposite: the way of light the Lord has opened.
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"For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things" (2 Nephi 2:11). Agency is God's gift, and the adversary has spent every age trying to take it away.
It traces pride, deception, flattery, the lure of the world and the slow silencing of prayer and conscience. It shows where his power ends and how priesthood, prayer, the temple and the home make a refuge. Chapters include "Blaming God," "Counterfeit Altars," "The Unseen Hosts" and "Be of Good Cheer."
When Life Happens: Not If, But When
What do you say to a teenager when everything cracks at once?
One school year, everything cracks: divorce, betrayal, bullying, loneliness, addiction, a crash that changes everything. Seven teens learn that the Lord uses every hard thing to bring us back, and that knowing Jesus Christ is what heals.
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Written at a 9th-grade reading level, with a "Walk with Him" box in every chapter, Bible and Book of Mormon stories retold for teens, and a closing fireside where the teens share their testimonies.
The book deals with divorce, bullying, depression, pornography addiction (never graphic), drug use, an impaired-driving crash and a death, all at a level suited to teens. It includes an "If You Are Hurting" page with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
The teens and their families are fictional characters.
About the author
Michael Moreh Maskil is a student of the scriptures and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His books grew from many years of searching the standard works and the words of latter-day prophets, a study he says changed his life and set his feet more firmly on the covenant path.
He writes as a fellow traveler rather than an expert: a man on a spiritual journey who does not claim to have every answer, but has found enough to share. Every page he writes is meant to point to Jesus Christ.
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