Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Historical Background – The Return
of the Jews
Christian attitudes towards Zion and the Jewish people
America as “God’s New Israel”
Primacy of the Bible in Puritan America
Sense of national destiny
Emerging concern in Britain and America for the Return of
the Jews
2 The Zionism of Joseph Smith
The Smith family in their Puritan New England setting
Joseph Smith, from birth to theophany
Theophany in a grove
The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon and Native Americans
Two Zions and the Restoration of Israel
Joseph Smith, pre-millennialist with a difference
The Concept of Zionic Community: Zion as ensign
Enoch’s City of Zion
The Collective Idea
Conflict and Persecution
Philadelphia and Warder Cresson
Orson Hyde’s assignment to Jerusalem
Nauvoo and the Murder of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith and the Temple
The Influence of Joseph Smith
3 The Zionism of George Jones Adams
Joseph Smith: believer in the Redemption of Zion
G. J. Adams’ background
G. J. Adams and the Mormons
George Adams and James Strang
The Children of Ephraim
Zion to be established at Jerusalem
Joshua and Caleb go to Palestine, to “spy out the land”
Preparations for the journey to Jaffa
The Jaffa Colony
The growth of dissension
The colony and the consuls
Break-up of the colony
Evaluating the effect of Adam’s belief in the redemption of
Zion
4 The Mormon Movement – Kinship with
the House of Israel
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
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