Cowan, Richard O.. "American History Foreseen by Nephi." The Instructor 101, no. 8 (1966): 328-329.

Cowan, Richard O.. "As I read the Old Testament, I find the term “ephod.” What is an ephod?" Ensign 3, no. 12 (1973): 33.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Aztec History and the Book of Mormon." The Instructor 102, no. 3 (1967): 131-133.

Cowan, Richard O.. "The Church Shall Bear My Name and Be Built upon My Gospel." In The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9-30, This is My Gospel, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 225-235. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Historians of the Book of Mormon." The Instructor 97, no. 12 (1962): 444-445.

Cowan, Richard O.. "In the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses." The Instructor 99, no. 8 (1964): 328-329.

Cowan, Richard O.. "The Lamanites - A More Accurate Image." In The Book of Mormon: Helaman Through 3 Nephi 8, According to Thy Word, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 251-264. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Latter-day Saint Temples as Symbols." Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 1 (2012): 2-11.

Cowan, Richard O.. "The Lehi Stone." The Instructor 103, no. 3 (1968): 132-133.

Cowan, Richard O.. "A New Meaning of "Restoration": The Book of Mormon on Life After Death." In The Book of Mormon: Alma, The Testimony of the Word, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 195-210. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Restoration, Redemption, and Resurrection: Three R’s of the Book of Mormon." In Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts, edited by Gaye Strathearn and Charles Swift, 176-185. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University/Deseret Book, 2007.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Richard Lloyd Anderson and Worldwide Church Growth." In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry and Andrew H. Hedges, 105-115. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Sacred Temples Ancient and Modern." In The Temple in Time and Eternity, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 99-120. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 1999.

Cowan, Richard O.. "The Tame and Wild Olive Tree." The Instructor 99, no. 10 (1964): 415-416.

Luschin, Immo, Richard O. Cowan, Arthur D. Haycock, Robert L. Simpson, Hugh W. Nibley, and Stephen D. Ricks. Temples In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 4. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Cowan, Richard O.. ""We Did Magnify Our Office unto the Lord"." In The Book of Mormon: Jacob Through Words of Mormon, To Learn With Joy, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr., 73-86. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1990.

Cowan, Richard O.. "When Jesus Visited Some "Other Sheep"." The Instructor 96, no. 12 (1961): 444-445.

Cowan, Richard O.. "Who are the Lamanites?" The Instructor 103, no. 5 (1968): 211-213.