Mormons and the Bible

Philip L. Barlow is Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University. His books include The Oxford Handbook to Mormonism (co-edited with Terryl Givens, forthcoming, 2013), The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America (OUP 2000, co-authored with Edwin Scott Gaustad) and, as co-editor with Mark Silk, Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America's Common Denominator? (2004). He is past president of the Mormon History Association.

Twenty-two years after it first appeared, Mormons and the Bible is as much a classic of American religious history broadly as of Mormonism narrowly.

• Preface (1991) ; Preface (2013): Reinterpreting Joseph Smith and Pondering the Twenty-first Century ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; A Note on Mormon Organization and Nomenclature ; Introduction: The Bible in Antebellum America ; 1. Before Mormonism: Joseph Smith and the Bible, 1820-1830 ; 2. From the Birth of the Church to the Death of the Prophet ; 3. Diversity and Development: The Bible Moves West ; 4. The Mormon Response to Higher Criticism ; 5. Why the King James Version? ; 6. The Late Twentieth Century [will need to be corrected in chapter headings] ; Summary: The Ambiguities of a New Religious Tradition ; Select Bibliography ; Select Bibliography since 1991 ; Index