Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition

Taylor G. Petrey is associate professor and chair of religion at Kalamazoo College. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism and Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference.Cory Crawford is associate professor of biblical studies at Ohio University. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Bible and Ancient Near Eastern culture in Vetus Testamentum, Harvard Theological Review, and more.Eric A. Eliason is professor of folklore and the Bible as literature at Brigham Young University. His books include (with Terryl L. Givens) Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology, Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion, and (with Tom Mould) Latter-day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies.

• Introduction: Latter-day Saints and Biblical Scholarship by Taylor G. PetreyPart I: The Ancient World of the Bible as Understood by Latter-day Saints: From Joseph Smith to Contemporary Scholarship1. The Place of the Bible and Biblical Scholarship among Latter-day Saints in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries by Philip L. Barlow and Stephen T. Betts2. The King James Version and Modern Translations of the Bible by Thomas Wayment3. Joseph Smith’s “New Translation” of the Bible by Grant Underwood4. Temple and Priesthood in the Bible and in Mormonism by Cory Crawford5. Dead Sea Scrolls by Dana M. Pike6. The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods by Matthew J. GreyPart II: Conceptions of Canon and Not Canon: The Bible(s) and Restoration Scripture7. The Biblical Canon by Daniel Becerra8. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha by Jared W. Ludlow9. How the Book of Mormon Responds to the Bible by Grant Hardy10. The Biblical World in the Book of Mormon by David Calabro11. The Bible in the Pearl of Great Price by Brian M. HauglidPart III: A Variety of Critical Biblical Approaches and Their Relevance to Mormon Studies12. Nineteenth-Century Biblical Interpretation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Amy Easton-Flake13. Historical Criticism of the Bible among the Latter-day Saints by Jason Robert Combs14. Biblical Theology and the Latter-day Saint Tradition by Joseph M. Spencer15. Textual Criticism by Lincoln H. Blumell16. Biblical Archaeology in Latter-day Saint Perspective by George A. Pierce17. Orality, Literacy, and the Cultural World of the Bible in Ancient Near Eastern Scholarship and Latter-day Saint Reception by Eric A. Eliason18. Feminist Biblical Criticism by Deidre Nicole GreenPart IV: Inheritance and Divergence: Latter-day Saints Read Others Reading the Bible19. The Use of Jewish Scripture in the New Testament by Jared W. Ludlow20. Early Christian Biblical Interpretation by Carl Griffin and Kristian S. Heal21. Early Christian Literature by Grant Adamson22. Medieval Bibles by Miranda Wilcox23. Reformation and Early Modern Biblical Interpretation by Jason A. KerrPart V: Latter-day Saint Approaches to the Bible’s Major Genres and Divisions24. The Pentateuch by David Bokovoy25. From Exodus to Exile by David Rolph Seely26. Prophets and Prophetic Literature by David Bokovoy27. Wisdom Literature and the Psalms by Ryan Conrad Davis28. Jesus and the Gospels by Eric D. Huntsman29. Paul’s Letters and Acts of the Apostles by Taylor G. Petrey30. The Universal Epistles: James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude by Luke Drake31. Apocalyptic Literature by Jill KirbyList of ContributorsIndex

“One of the great strengths of this collection is how it often offers different perspectives, offered by different scholars, to similar concerns or texts. In so doing, it adds a nice breadth of approach and depth of competing analyses.”—Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University “The Sheer amount of information is impressive and makes the volume invaluable to scholars of many disciplines. Historians and biblical scholars, to be sure, but also scholars of literature, theologians, and religious studies academics will find worthy materials here.”—Mathew Bowman, Claremont Graduate University in Nova Religio