High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Studies of the Book of Mormon, Brigham D. Madsen, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985) is a collection of previously unpublished manuscripts, written by LDS General Authority B.H. Roberts (1857–1933) at the beginning of the 20th century, which concern the validity of the Book of Mormon, a scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.