scholars, students, and religious leaders who take interest in interfaith dialogues, and especially in the interactions between Latter-day Saints and Jews, will welcome Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue. The compilation demonstrates both a continuation of and a breakthrough in the long history of the exchanges between the two communities of faith.
Latter-day Saint interactions with Jews started in the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scholars and religious leaders of various affiliations have pointed throughout the years to affinities and resemblances between the sacred narratives of the two traditions. The Book of Mormon presents the early Saints as Israelites who arrived from besieged Jerusalem just before its destruction by the Babylonians. Although the early Israelite migrants are gone, the Latter-day Saints consider themselves to be heirs of the children of Israel, particularly the tribe of Joseph. Jesus visited America and...
