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"“In the Mount of the Lord It Shall Be Seen” and “Provided”: Theophany and Sacrifice as the Etiological Foundation of the Temple in Israelite and Latter-day Saint Tradition." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 5 (2013): 201-228.
""And There Wrestled a Man with Him" (Genesis 32:24): Enos’s Adaptations of the Onomastic Wordplay of Genesis." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 10 (2014): 151-159.
""What Thank They the Jews"? (2 Nephi 29:4): A Note on the Name "Judah" and Antisemitism." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 12 (2014): 111-125.
""Most Desirable Above All Things": Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 13 (2014): 27-61.
"Father is a Man: The Remarkable Mention of the name Abish in Alma 19:16 and Its Narrative Context." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 14 (2015): 77-93.
"Place of Crushing: The Literary Function of Heshlon in Ether 13:25-31." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 14 (2015): 227-239.
"“He Is a Good Man”: The Fulfillment of Helaman 5:6-7 in Helaman 8:7 and 11:18-19." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 17 (2016): 165-170.
"Nephi’s Good Inclusio." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 17 (2016): 181-195.
"Getting Cain and Gain." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 15 (2015): 115-141.
"Onomastic Wordplay on Joseph and Benjamin and Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18 (2016): 255-273.
"“They Were Moved with Compassion” (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on Zarahemla and Jershon." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 18 (2016): 233-253.
"“See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up”: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 109-143.
"“My People Are Willing”: The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5-6." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 83-107.
"Alma — Young Man, Hidden Prophet." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016): 343-353.
‘I Have Done According to My Will’: Reading Jacob 5 as a Temple Text. The Interpreter Foundation, 2014.
"The Scalp of Your Head: Polysemy in Alma 44:14–18." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 20 (2016): 39-45.
"“And Behold, They Had Fallen to the Earth”: An Examination of Proskynesis in the Book of Mormon." Studia Antiqua 4, no. 1 (2005): 91-110.
"“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23 (2017): 115-136.
"Becoming Sons and Daughters at God’s Right Hand: King Benjamin’s Rhetorical Wordplay on His Own Name." Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 2-13.
"“This Son Shall Comfort Us”: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 23 (2017): 263-298.
"The Faithfulness of Ammon." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 15, no. 2 (2014): 64-89.
"“If Ye Will Hearken”: Lehi’s Rhetorical Wordplay on Ishmael in 2 Nephi 1:28–29 and Its Implications." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 25 (2017): 157-189.
"What Thank They The Jews?"., 2017.
"“I Kneeled Down Before My Maker”: Allusions to Esau in the Book of Enos." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 29-56.
"“He Did Go About Secretly”: Additional Thoughts on the Literary Use of Alma’s Name." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 197-212.
"Jacob's Protector." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 27 (2017): 229-256.
""Possess the Land in Peace": Zeniff's Ironic Wordplay on Shilom." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 115-120.
"“Swearing by Their Everlasting Maker”: Some Notes on Paanchi and Giddianhi." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 155-170.
"“Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins”: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28 (2018): 273-298.
"“And the Meek Also Shall Increase”: The Verb YASAP in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 30 (2018): 5-42.
"“They Shall No More Be Confounded”: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 30 (2018): 91-104.
"Messengers of the Covenant: Mormon’s Doctrinal Use of Malachi 3:1 in Moroni 7:29–32." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 31 (2019): 111-138.
"Abish, Theophanies, and the First Lamanite Restoration." Religious Educator 19, no. 1 (2018): 59-81.
"Shazer: An Etymological Proposal in Narrative Context." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 33 (2019): 1-12.
"He Knows My Affliction: The Hill Onidah as Narrative Counterpart to the Rameumptom." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 34 (2020): 195-220.
"“I of Myself Am a Wicked Man”: Some Notes on Allusion and Textual Dependency in Omni 1:1-2." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 40 (2020): 71-88.
"“That Which They Most Desired”: The Waters of Mormon, Baptism, the Love of God, and the Bitter Fountain." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 39 (2020): 261-298.
"“God Hath Taken Away His Plainness”: Some Notes on Jacob 4:14, Revelation, Canon, Covenant, and Law." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 39 (2020): 81-102.
"Becoming Men and Women of Understanding: Wordplay on Benjamin— An Addendum." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 36 (2020): 239-280.
"“We Are a Remnant of the Seed of Joseph”: Moroni’s Interpretive Use of Joseph’s Coat and the Martial nēs-Imagery of Isaiah 11:11–12." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 169-192.
"“I Will Deliver Thy Sons”: An Onomastic Approach to Three Iterations of an Oracle to Mosiah II (Mosiah 28:7; Alma 17:35, 19:23)." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2021): 241-256.
"Coming Down and Bringing Down: Pejorative Onomastic Allusions to the Jaredites in Helaman 6:25, 6:38, and Ether 2:11." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 42 (2021): 397-410.
"“If Ye Believe on His Name”: Wordplay on the Name Samuel in Helaman 14:2, 12–13 and 3 Nephi 23:9 and the Doctrine of Christ in Samuel’s Speech." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 46 (2021): 49-76.
"“The Messiah Will Set Himself Again”: Jacob’s Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44 (2021): 287-306.
"“The Lord God Will Proceed”: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8–12 and the Abrahamic Covenant." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50 (2022): 51-70.
"“We Might Have Enjoyed Our Possessions and the Land of Our Inheritance”: Hebrew yrš and 1 Nephi 17:21." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 50 (2022): 123-144.
"“The Messenger of Salvation”: The Messenger-Message Christology of D&C 93:8 and Its Implications for Latter-day Saint Missionary Work and Temple Worship." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 1-28.
"Putting Down the Priests: A Note on Royal Evaluations, (wĕ)hišbît, and Priestly Purges in 2 Kings 23:5 and Mosiah 11:5." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 105-114.
"“Can You Suppose That the Lord Will Spare You?”: Moroni’s Charged Rhetoric in Alma 60:30–32." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 51 (2022): 199-210.
"“But That Thou Wouldst Clear My Way Before Me”: A Note on the Personal and Emotional Rendering of an Ancient Idiom in 2 Nephi 4:33." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 31-36.
"“For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 77-90.
"“Unto the Taking Away of Their Stumbling Blocks”: The Taking Away and Keeping Back of Plain and Precious Things and Their Restoration in 1 Nephi 13–15." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 53 (2022): 145-170.
"Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors." In 2019 FairMormon Conference. Provo, UT: FAIR, 2019.
"“That They Might Come Again unto the Remnant of the House of Jacob”: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in 3 Nephi 26:8–10 and 4 Nephi 1:49." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 55 (2023): 279-296.
""They Shall Be Scattered Again": Some Notes on JST Genesis 50:24–25, 33–35." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 57 (2023): 107-128.
"“Upon the Wings of His Spirit”: A Note on Hebrew RÛAH and 2 Nephi 4:25." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58 (2023): 19-32.
"“Encircled About Eternally in the Arms of His Love”: The Divine Embrace as a Thematic Symbol of Jesus Christ and His Atonement in the Book of Mormon." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59 (2023): 109-134.
"“Behold, He Was a Man Like unto Ammon”: Mormon’s Use of 'mn-related Terminology in Praise of Moroni in Alma 48." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 58 (2023): 223-242.
"“He Is God; and He Is with Them”: Helaman 8:21–23 and Isaiah’s Immanuel Prophecy as a Thematic Scriptural Concept." BYU Studies 62, no. 1 (2023): 135-168.
"“Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61 (2024): 97-134.
"“That They May Once Again Be a Delightsome People”: The Concept of Again Becoming the Seed of Joseph (Words of Mormon 1:8 and Mormon 7:4–5)." Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61 (2024): 165-190.