I recently read through Karen Armstrong's The Bible: A Biography (2007). The first two chapters, titled "Torah" and "Scripture," review current scholarship on how the Jewish Bible (aka "the Old Testament") came to be, which makes a good review for the upcoming year of studying the Old Testament in LDS Sunday School. Scholarship does not, of course, define the LDS view of the Bible, but it can help us recognize various questionable Protestant beliefs about the Bible that often get amalgamated with LDS views.
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