Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green {[email protected]} earned a BA from BYU, a PhD in German from the University of Illinois, and has held Fulbright, DAAD, and Humboldt research fellowships. He has taught at the College of Charleston, Michigan State University, the University of Arkansas, BYU-Idaho, and the University of North Dakota, and is currently a lecturer at Auburn University. He is the author of two books on late medieval and early modern prophetic texts, both published by the University of Michigan Press: Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change, 1450–1550 (2012), and The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess: The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe (2014).

When Your Eternal Companion Has Fangs | Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 2

As a teacher of language and literature, I am probably supposed to sneer at Stephenie Meyer’s novels. They are not just genre fiction but, by blending urban fantasy and romance, genre fiction twice over; they are not only written for the young adult market, but they also avoid offending the sensitivities of Mormon readers; and their prose does not insist that you stop and weep over its sheer beauty.

Confident Interpretations of Silence | David Conley Nelson, Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi Germany

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 3

David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika, although based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, is not at heart a scholarly book. It is, rather, a polemical work dressed up in academic regalia. While its footnotes and bibliography give it the appearance of scholarly earnest, its primary commitment is not to placing events in historical context, or to giving a balanced account of primary sources and secondary literature, or to weighing the evidence for or against a given proposition, but to launching accusations against Mormons in Nazi Germany and LDS Church leaders in the United States.