Daniel Becerra is an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and is a scholar of early Christianity. He received a PhD in religion (early Christianity) and an MA in religious studies from Duke University, an MTS in New Testament/early Christianity from Harvard Divinity School, and a BA in ancient Near Eastern studies from Brigham Young University. His primary research interests concern moral formation in late antiquity (ca. 2nd–7th centuries CE), particularly within Christian ascetic contexts. His published works on the Book of Mormon include 3rd, 4th Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction.

Amy Easton-Flake received her PhD in American literature, with an emphasis in nineteenth-century women’s literature and narrative theory, from Brandeis University in 2011. She also received an MA in women’s studies from Brandeis, an MA in English from Brigham Young University, and a BA in American studies and marriage, family, and human development from Brigham Young University. Her research interests include nineteenth-century women’s reform literature, nineteenth-century women’s biblical hermeneutics, Latter-day Saint “home literature” in relation to the larger print culture, the Book of Mormon through a narrative lens, and reception history of the Book of Mormon. She and her husband, Merrill, are the parents of two children.

Nicholas J. Frederick is an associate professor at Brigham Young University. He attended BYU, where he received his BA in classics and his MA in comparative studies. He then attended Claremont Graduate University, where he completed a PhD in the history of Christianity with an emphasis in Mormon studies, after which he returned to BYU to teach full-time in Religious Education. His research focuses primarily on the intertextual relationship between the text of the Bible and Latter-day Saint scripture, specifically the Book of Mormon. He has been married to Julie Parker Frederick for eighteen years and is the father of four children.

Joseph M. Spencer received a PhD in philosophy from the University of New Mexico before joining the faculty as an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He is the author of five books and many articles, and he serves as the editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, as the associate director of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, and as a vice president (and founding member) of the Book of Mormon Studies Association. His research focuses on the point of connection between philosophy and scripture. He and his wife, Karen, live in Provo with their children.