Free Ebook! Know Your Moroni 2021

Out With the Old

Back in 2015 I released my first Ebook, a 167 page work about the Angel Moroni statues frequently used on Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The book was inspired by a desire to see if I could identify who sculpted each of the statues then in use on the temple. After some investigation on the subject, I found that there was a lot of information on the internet, and it all basically said the same thing. I then found that it was all wrong.

I set out to correct the lack of information by writing what I thought then to be the definitive work on the subject, Know Your Moroni: A Fieldguide to Angel Moroni Statues.

A couple of years after it’s release, I learned that, while my information was better than what had come before, I still had it wrong in many spots.

So in 2018 I set out to do a small update to my book, intended to take a couple of months and result in the 2018 edition.

So here we are now in 2021. I have spent hours researching, looking up interviews, cross referencing info, losing data, finding it again, and generally re-writing the entire work from the ground up.

And after much consideration and thought,

It’s still free.

Update: Revision 3 released 11 March 2021.

In With the New

So here it is in all it’s reworked and redesigned glory. The new edition features expanded information, new artwork, and new sections.

The statue sections have now all been fully fleshed out with a history and description of not just the statue, but how it was made.

The biographies of the Sculptors have all been better researched, updated, corrected, and illustrated with examples of their other works.

The big news is that, with the help of the staff at the Church History Library, we were able to collect more accurate placement dates for most of the statues. Instead of having good information for 30-50 percent of the statues, there are firm dates for about 90 percent!

New Stories

The Stories section has been updated, most of the stories have been re-written, detail added and clarified, and new stories added:

New Myths

Like the Stories Section, the Myths from the previous book, now in their own chapter, have been better researched, expanded, and added to:

New Charts, Lists, and Graphs

Similarly, the Charts, Graphs and Lists section has been expanded, updated and corrected as well:

On top of all the reorganized chapters, the book now has an extensive set of appendices where a large portion of my research that did not fit in well with the other chapters is included. Information on other notable statues, Brief Biographies on Assistant Sculptors, collected information on Moroni as a man and an Angel, and collected information on Angels in General can be found in the large Appendices at the back of the book.

The Downside:

Instead of being 167 pages, the book now reaches a full 600 pages total. This is in large part to the artwork, appendices, and the large section listing every temple and every known statue event for that temple (previously an alphabetical reference as to which temple had which statue.)

For this reason, in addition to being able to download the whole book as a single file,

you can also download it as separate volumes, the first being al the bios stories and myths, the second being all the reference material.