Colby Townsend

COLBY TOWNSEND {[email protected]} is a PhD student in the English department at Indiana University Bloomington. He received two HBA degrees in comparative literature and religious studies at the University of Utah and an MA in history at Utah State University. He is the author of several articles on early American religion and literature.

“The Robe of Righteousness”: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 3

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Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 3

Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106
Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub-fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content were far more complicated than has usually been assumed in past scholarship.

“Behold, Other Scriptures I Would that Ye Should Write”: Malachi in the Book of Mormon

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2

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