- Jack McLean. Babi Heroism and the Recovery of the Heroic (2009). In defining the three ages of Bábí-Bahá’í history, Shoghi Effendi named the first the Heroic Age, thus aligning the virtue of heroism and the Bahá’í Faith’s metaphor of historical time, with The Bab as the tragic hero.
- Universal House of Justice. Biblical discrepancies in God Passes By (1993-02-15). Citation errors for quotations from Ezekiel in God Passes By.
- Jack McLean. Celestial Burning, A: A Selective Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi (2012). Style, content, and context of the major writings of the Guardian; providential history; critique of Hegel; the military metaphor; the language of interpretation; history of the apostolic age.
- Universal House of Justice. Century of Light (2001). Survey of the history and dramatic changes of the 20th Century and the Bahá'í Faith's emergence from obscurity, "demonstrating on a global scale the unifying power with which its Divine origin has endowed it."
- Jack McLean. Characterization in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi: With Special Attention to Yahya (2000). The Guardian employed a creative literary device of adding moralistic comment about historical figures, such as kings and clerics, casting them as "heroes" or "villains." Mirza Yahya is depicted with aspects of the demonic.
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi. Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Faith, The Importance of (1991).
- Brett Zamir, trans, Violetta Zein, trans. English Translations of French Passages in God Passes By (2005).
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjective stories, between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. We inherited a responsibility to resolve this tension.
- Hooper Dunbar. Forces of Our Time: Lecture Series (2011-04). Six lectures series at Bosch Bahá'í School, April 15-17 2011.
- Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By (1971 [1944]). The classic — and canonical — historical summary and interpretation of the significance of the development of the Bábí and Baháʼí religions from 1844 to 1944.
- Horace Holley. God Passes By: A Study Guide (1970). Thematic index to the Guardian's key historical work.
- Brett Zamir, comp. God Passes By: Outline and cross-reference of chapters correlated with A Traveler's Narrative and The Dawn-Breakers (2002). A variety of indexes and tables correlating these three books.
- Jack McLean. Heroic in the Historical Writings of Shoghi Effendi and Nabil, The (2006). Unlike academic historians, Shoghi Effendi and Nabil interpret the events and characters they portray in moralistic terms. This paper explores the heroic motif through a literary framework in the model of Thomas Carlyle's concept of the prophet as hero.
- Brian Wittman. Keys to the Proper Understanding of Islam in "The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah" (2001). Some references to Islam in Shoghi Effendi's English-language writings.
- Universal House of Justice. Letters of the Quranic Dispensation and Letters of the Living (huruf) (2003). Some meanings of the term huruf ("letters") in Bahá'í texts, including Letters of the Bayan, Letters of the Living, and Letters of the Quranic Dispensation.
- Virginia Orbison. Notes on Words of the Guardian (1956). Ten pages of notes, preserved as an appendix to Orbison's lengthy manuscript "Diary of a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Made by Virginia Orbison, January 15 to February 11".
- Universal House of Justice. Persian Manuscript of Nabíl's History (Táríkh-i-Nabíl), The (2009-03-08). Answers to various questions, including: have any publications made use of the original manuscript used by Shoghi Effendi for The Dawn-Breakers; can scholars inspect the one surviving copy; does a corrected version or a "second manuscript" exist?
- Universal House of Justice. Self-Defense, the Ungodly, Infallibility, and Sexual Violence and Abuse (2004-09-06). Answers to a number of questions, with extracts from four letters of the House, on self-defense, the ungodly, infallibility, sexual violence, and abuse.
- Shoghi Effendi. Station and Titles of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The (1973-04-21). Two excerpts from Shoghi Effendi's writings, one from "The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh" and the other from God Passes By.
- Shoghi Effendi. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet of the Centennial (1998). Partial translation of an epistle to the Persian-speaking Bahá'ís, written shortly after "God Passes By" in 1944. Includes English translation of Muhammad Varqa's "Le Style persan du Gardien."
- Brett Zamir, comp. Traveler's Narrative, A Study Outline and Cross-Reference (2001). Summary headings and correlation of passages with The Dawn-Breakers, God Passes By, the Lawh-i-Sultán, and other works.
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