Josiah's Reform:An Introduction; Vindicating Josiah; Prophets and Kings in Lehiââ[[[[

by Benjamin L. McGuire, William J. Hamblin, Kevin Christensen

Overview

King Josiah's reign has come under increasing focus for its importance to the formation of the Hebrew Bible, and for its proximity to the ministry of important prophets such as Jeremiah and Lehi. Whereas the canonical accounts and conventional scholarship have seen Josiah portrayed as the ideal king, Margaret Barker's argues Josiah's reform was hostile to the temple. These two essays take differing viewpoints on this topic.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016670119
Publisher:	The Interpreter Foundation
Publication date:	05/03/2013
Series:	Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	33
File size:	215 KB

About the Author

Benjamin L. McGuire is a technologist in the field of healthcare in northern Michigan, where he lives with his wife and three children. He has special interest in the field of literary theory and its application to the Book of Mormon and early LDS literature. He has previously published with the Maxwell Institute.

William J. Hamblin is Professor of History at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah, USA), specializing in the ancient and medieval Near East. He is the author of dozens of academic articles and several books, most recently, Solomon�s Temple: Myth and History, with David Seely (Thames and Hudson, 2007). In the fall of 2010 his first novel was published (co-authored with Neil Newell): The Book of Malchus (Deseret Book, 2010). A fanatical traveler and photographer, he spent 2010 teaching at the BYU Jerusalem Center, and has lived in Israel, England, Egypt and Italy, and traveled to dozens of other countries.

Kevin Christensen has been a technical writer since 1984, since 2004 in working in Pittsburgh, PA. He has a BA in English from San Jose State University. He has published articles in Dialogue, Sunstone, the FARMS Review, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Insights, the Meridian Magazine, the FARMS Occasional Papers, (Paradigms Regained: A Survey of Margaret Barker�s Scholarship and Its Significance for Mormon Studies), Glimpses of Lehi�s Jerusalem, and, in collaboration with Margaret Barker, an essay in Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals after Two Centuries. He lives with his wife Shauna in Bethel Park, PA.