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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.