Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011 Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011
Volume 16 Number 2 Article 5
6-1-2004
The Deuteronomist De-Christianizing of the Old Testament The Deuteronomist De-Christianizing of the Old Testament
Kevin Christensen
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The Deuteronomist De-Christianizing of the Old
Testament
Kevin Christensen
FARMS Review 16/2 (2004): 59–90.
1550-3194 (print), 2156-8049 (online)
Review of “The Mormon Christianizing of the Old
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
e Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scrip
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ture, 
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
   
Sunstone
e Word of God
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    
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 On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Temple Symbolism in the New Testa-
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Kevin Christensen (BA, San Jose State University) is a
technical writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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          
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        
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 Millennial Harbinger, 
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           
e Great High Priest: e Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy
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 e Hidden Book in the Bible, 
New York Times,
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      
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 Who Wrote the Bible?
     Obsession with Justice: e Story of the Deuteronomists
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 e Great Angel A Study of Israel’s Second God
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Jesus of History as the Christ of Faith
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of the Deuteronomists,Enoch the Prophet 
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     
         
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had gone astray in the secret things, presumably the teachings
of the priesthood.
       
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 
Sunstone
Sunstone,
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
 Great High Priest,
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 Great High Priest, 
 
    
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Great High Priest,
 
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         
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 King Josiah of Judah: Lost Messiah of Israel  
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           
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salem, 
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 King Josiah of Judah: e Lost Messiah of Israel
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e Conception of God
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Cult in Sectarian Judaism and Early Christianity 
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
, Isaiah as Liturgy;

 Older Testament,
   
e New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-
Growing Movement,
e
Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture,       
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 

 Since Cumorah,

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El and Jehovah
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 

 e Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s
Second God,  
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        

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 
Isaiah in the Book of Mormon

Dialogue
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 Since Cumorah
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
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
was
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   Nephite Culture and Society  
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e Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: e Effect of Early Chris
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tological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 
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

the
idea of a procreator God with sons seems to have fallen out of favour
among those who equated Yahweh and El
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         
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e Source of Evil
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FARMS Review
 Older Testament,
 Great Angel,
 
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Isaiah and the Prophets: Inspired Voices from the
Old Testament, 
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

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
the sons of God:
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    
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   Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, 
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 Older Testament,
 Great Angel,Enoch the Prophet,
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    Ancient Texts and Mormonism, 
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Honor of Truman G. Madsen, 
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Baptism
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          
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        
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e Messiah
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        
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   never      
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 

e Church of the Old Testament
   Miqvaot:       
BYU Studies

    
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
is step is
unacknowledged in any account I have read of atonement in
the New Testament
 Risen Lord       

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 Risen Lord,
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 e Gate of Heaven: e History and Symbolism of the Temple
in Jerusalem           
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Older Testament,
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 
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
since there is no other
passage in the Hebrew Scriptures which speaks of a suffering
Anointed One
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      
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      
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Holy One
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       
 
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  

    


 Revelation of Jesus Christ,
 Lost Prophet,
 Older Testament,
 

 Assumption
of Moses,
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tion transferred the atoning power to God
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they are texts which bear upon the Christian tradition
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
 Great High Priest,
 
e Most Correct Book: Insights from a
Book of Mormon Scholar 
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 Great High Priest,
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 Older Testament,
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Jesus Christ, Great High Priest, 
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of Books on the Book of Mormon
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Review of Books on the Book of Mormon
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Otherworld Journeys,
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 Great Angel,
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 Gate of Heaven,
 Great Angel,
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 Revelation of Jesus Christ, 
 Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medi-
eval and Modern Times
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e Fall of Adam
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Lost Prophet,
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    
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 Most Correct Book,
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 Lost Prophet,
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 
 
Temple eology,
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e Need for Atonement
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Sherem as a Deuteronomist
       
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 Temple eology: An Introduction 
 Great High Priest, 
 
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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