Kevin Christensen argues that Margaret Barker's reconstruction of the theology of the First Temple, monarchy, and wisdom traditions in her works matches much of the theology of the Book of Mormon.
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Kevin Christensen, "The Temple, the Monarchy, and Wisdom: Lehi's World and the Scholarship of Margaret Barker," in Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem, ed. Jo Ann H. Seely, David Solph Seely, and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2004), 449-522
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- Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
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- Reading Public
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[Conclusion]
Barker's work illustrates a complex pattern involving specific historical events, times, places, persons, and teachings. All of this comes in a timely manner and in the appropriate place to be relevant to the Book of Mormon. In my opinion, this correspondence is not accidental or providential (see 1 Nephi 13). "And again, I will give unto you a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived" (D&C 52:14). Given that the pattern appears clearly in the Book of Mormon, what should we think?
O then, is not this real?
I say unto you, Yea,
because it is light; and whatsoever is light is good,
because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is
good. (Alma 32:35)
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- https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/39/
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