Heikki Raisanen

Heikki Räisänen, is Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Helsinki. His most recent publications are Beyond New Testament Theology (2nd ed. 2000) and Marcion, Muhammad and the Mahatma (1997

Joseph Smith as a Creative Interpreter of the Bible

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 2

My involvement in biblical studies has also awakened in me an interest in other holy books. In the 1970s, I had the opportunity to do some work on the Qur’an, a fascinating combination of things familiar and unfamiliar for a biblical scholar. I had a vague hunch that, in a somewhat similar way, the Book of Mormon might make exciting reading, but a contact with that book and its study came about quite accidentally.