Eric A. Eliason
Eric A. Eliason is a professor in the English department at Brigham Young University where he teaches folklore and the Bible as literature. With various coauthors, his books include The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, Latter-day Lore, and This Is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions. His Special Forces chaplain work in Afghanistan is featured in Hammerhead Six. He and his wife have four children and a grandchild.
BYU Studies Publications
- Baptists at Our Barbecue
- Book of Mormon Reference Companion
- Four books on religious freedom in American history
- God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says
- How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture Then and Now
- In God's Image and Likeness
- Introduction to a BYU Studies Quarterly Special Issue on Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology
- Is the Bible Reliable? A Case Study: Were King Josiah’s Reforms a Restoration from Apostasy or a Suppression of Plain and Precious Truths? (And What about Margaret Barker?)
- Is the Song of Solomon Scripture?
- Reaching the Nations (2 vols.)
- Russia’s Other “Mormons”: Their Origins and Relationship to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Seer Stones, Salamanders, and Early Mormon “Folk Magic” in the Light of Folklore Studies and Bible Scholarship
- Spirit Babies and Divine Embodiment: PBEs, First Vision Accounts, Bible Scholarship, and the Experience-Centered Approach to Mormon Folklore
- The Genesis Creation, Eden, and Flood Accounts’ Relationship to Natural History in the Light of Recent Bible Scholarship on Ancient Worldviews: What’s in It for Latter-day Saints?(2025)
- Three anthologies about plural marriage
- Toward the Folkloristic Study of Latter-day Saint Conversion Narratives