1. Margaret Barker, “What Did Josiah Reform? The Earlier Religion of Israel,” address given at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, May 6, 2003.

2. Margaret Barker, “Joseph Smith and the Preexilic Israelite Religion,” in The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress, ed. John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 2006), 69–82.

3. Margaret Barker’s major works include The Older Testament: The Survival of Themes from the Ancient Royal Cult in Sectarian Judaism and Early Christianity (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [SPCK], 1987); The Lost Prophet: The Book of Enoch and Its Influence on Christianity (London: SPCK, 1988); The Gate of Heaven: The History and Symbolism of the Temple in Jerusalem (London: SPCK, 1991); The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God (London: SPCK, 1992); On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Temple Symbolism in the New Testament (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1995); The Risen Lord: The Jesus of History as the Christ of Faith (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996); The Revelation of Jesus Christ, Which God Gave to Him to Show to His Servants What Must Soon Take Place (Revelation 1.1) (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2000); and The Great High Priest: The Temple Roots of Christian Liturgy (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2003). For comment on her work, we recommend Terrance L. Szink, “Jerusalem in Lehi’s Day,” FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004), 149–59; and Kevin Christensen, “The Deuteronomist De-Christianizing of the Old Testament,” FARMS Review 16, no. 2 (2004), 59–90.

4. Hugh Nibley, The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, 2d ed., The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 16 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2005).

5. Nibley, Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, 522.

James W. McConkie

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