Joseph Bates (Adventist) - Bibliography

Bibliography

The best primary resource is: John Bates, Autobiography (Battle Creek: Battle Creek Steam Press, 1868) and republished and annotated in 2004 by Andrews University Press. Other helpful treatments include G. T. Anderson, Outrider of the Apocalypse: Life and Times of Joseph Bates (Review and Herald, 1972) and George R. Knight, Joseph Bates: The Real Founder of Seventh-day Adventism (Review and Herald, 2004).

Some of Bates' major publications include:

• The Opening Heavens Or, A Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles (1846)
• The Seventh Day Sabbath: A Perpetual Sign from the Beginning to the Entering Into the Gates (1846, revised edition 1857)
• Second Advent Way Marks and High Heaps (1857)
• A Word to the "Little Flock" (1847, with James and Ellen White)
• A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God (1848)
• A Seal of the Living God (1849)
• An Explanation of the Typical and Anti-Typical Sanctuary (1850)
• The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates (1868)