The following are books and articles by non-LDS academic biblical scholars (who hold the consensus view among scholars), that the God of the Old Testament had a body (which aligns with LDS theology on God the Father's embodiment):
- The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church by Brittany E. Wilson. Wilson challenges the prevalent view of a disembodied God by arguing that early Jews and Christians often envisioned God as having a visible form prior to Jesus being born on earth.