A few weeks ago I was in a Deseret Book store in Utah and found the Scripture section predictably divided into four subsections: one bookshelf each for the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants.
Within the D&C area’s dozens of offerings were two books — just two books! — devoted to the Pearl of Great Price, the other “standard work” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A brief hodgepodge of several genres, it contains two books of Scripture purporting to be authored by Old Testament prophets (the Book of Moses and the Book of Abraham), a historical reminiscence by Joseph Smith, a creedal statement from the early church and other miscellany.
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