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Contents

Our Mission

Preface and Acknowledgments by Joshua M. Matson and S. Kent Brown

Introduction by Joshua M. Matson and S. Kent Brown

Commentary as Outreach by S. Kent Brown

A Saintly Inheritance

The Bible and Book of Mormon—“One in Thine Hand” by Tad R. Callister

Seeing into God’s “Own Bosom” (D&C 35:20): A Brief Journey through the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible by Richard D. Draper

Unmuting the Helping Voices: A Short History of Guiding Latter-day Saint New Testament Study by Joshua M. Matson

Latter-day Saint Scholarship Encounters the World of the Bible by Tom R. Roberts

Tracking New Testament Study among Latter-day Saints by Kelsey Draper Lambert and John S. Thompson

An Overview of Premodern New Testament Translations by Andrew C. Skinner

Background

Uncovering the HistoricalBackground of the New Testament by John F. Hall, Eric D. Huntsman, and Cecilia M. Peek

To the Jew and Also to the Gentile: Cultural Contexts for the New Testament by Avram R. Shannon

New Testament Authorship by John Gee

Digging into the Synoptic Gospels: How Matthew, Mark, and Luke Fit Together by Brent J. Schmidt

Embracing Paul’s Epistles: An Introduction to Questions of Authorship by Brent J. Schmidt

Textual Criticism: How Scholars Attempt a Restoration of All Things Textual by John Gee

Educating the Ancient Saints about Christ by S. Kent Brown

Collections

Making Sense of the Greek Manuscripts and Later English Translations by Eric D. Huntsman

Why the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts May Not Be the Best by John F. Hall

The Open Canon and the Modern Reader by Tom R. Roberts

Weighing the Authority of the New Testament on Restoration Scales by Andrew C. Skinner

The Rise of Canonical and Apocryphal Literature by S. Kent Brown and David J. Larsen

Versions

A Bible Fit for a King: How We Got the King James Version by Andrew C. Skinner

Navigating the Textus Receptus: Understanding the Text upon which the King James Translation Rests by Eric Huntsman

Illuminating the Staying Power of the King James Version of the Bible among English-Speaking Latter-day Saints by Andrew C. Skinner

A King James Vocabulary Lesson by John W. Welch

Making Sense of All Those New Testament Translations: Why and How They Differ by Andrew C. Skinner

Plumbing the Depths of the New Testament: Published Works by Our Commentary Authors

 

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