The paperback edition of Michael Kruger's The Early Texts of the New Testament is available for pre-order on Amazon.com, as is Thomas Oord's Theologies of Creation: Ex Nihilo and its new rivals. While dealing with different topics (textual criticism and the nature of creation in the biblical texts), they should be of interest to an LDS audience. Oord is a non-LDS scholar who affirms, based on biblical exegesis, creation ex materia.
On the latter topic, Blake Ostler's paper refuting creatio ex nihilo is always a must-read:
Blake T. Ostler, "Out of Nothing: A History of Creation Ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought"
On the latter topic, Blake Ostler's paper refuting creatio ex nihilo is always a must-read:
Blake T. Ostler, "Out of Nothing: A History of Creation Ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought"
