Standing in the Holy Place: Ancient and Modern Reverberations of an Enigmatic New Testament Prophecy

Abstract: On the Mount of Olives, just prior ot the culminating events of the Passion week, Jesus gave one of the most controversial prophecies of the New Testament, saying, among other things, that the "abomination of desolation" will "stand in the holy place." In Joseph Smith-Matthew the Prophet renders this passage in a way that radically changes its meaning. Rather than describing how the "abomination of desolation" will "stand in the holy place," the JST version enjoins the apostles to...