The essays in this volume consider how Bible scholarship has operated, at different times and in different ways, within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Taylor Petrey's introductory essay offers a brief but informative history of LDS biblical scholarship, which he acknowledges has tended to fall on either side of an apologist/antagonist binary. This collection – as a whole and within its individual contributions – attempts to move beyond this frame and appeal not only to those interested in LDS perspectives on the Bible but also to scholars of American religion more broadly and of the Bible itself. The thirty-one contributions are divided into five topically organized sections: Latter-day Saint conceptions of the Bible's ancient world, canonicity, Mormon Studies and Critical Biblical Studies, Latter-day Saint engagement with the biblical scholarship of other religious traditions, and Latter-day Saint approaches to some of the Bible's major genres.

The essays in this book are written with both scholarly and popular audiences in mind. They are thus on the shorter side (most are around fifteen pages), and they generally offer helpful, jargon-free introductory context to situate their main claims. This would make them potentially useful in classrooms as well as to interested critics.