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Samuel S. Snow
Author of Reasons for Believing the Advent Will Be on the 10th of the 7th Month.
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Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas
Companion of Muhammad who transmits the report of the community’s delay of half a day and explains it as five hundred years.
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Sean Durbin
Author of reference articles explaining premillennialism and postmillennialism in the Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements.
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Short Bull
Lakota Ghost Dance leader and one of the delegates who visited Wovoka; Mooney prints his sermon of 31 October 1890.
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Sidney Rigdon
Joint recipient and signatory with Joseph Smith of the February 1832 vision now in Doctrine and Covenants 76.
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Simeon Rayner
Correspondent who asked Notes and Queries in 1872 whether the “Mother Shipton” rhyme was genuine.
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Snorri Sturluson
Author associated with the Prose Edda, which preserves the dialogue about the renewed earth.
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Sot’aesan
Founder of Won Buddhism; the Scripture of the Founding Master attributes the selected moral-world prediction to him.
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Steven D. Shumway
Latter-day Saint speaker of the linked general conference commentary.
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Swami Vijñanananda
English translator.
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T. W. Rhys Davids
English translator of the Questions of King Milinda edition quoted in the margin.
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Tertullian
Author of On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
English translator of Pali Buddhist discourses, including the Future Dangers discourses quoted here.
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The Báb
Author of the selected Qayyúm al-Asmá passage addressing rulers and resurrection.
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Theophilus de Garencières
French physician in London who published an English translation of Nostradamus with annotations in 1672.
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Thomas B. Marsh
President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to whom the July 1837 revelation now in Doctrine and Covenants 112 was addressed.
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Thomas Banyacya
Speaker of the 1992 address preserved in translation.
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Thomas Beverley
English Independent minister who predicted the succession of the Kingdom of Christ in 1697 and published an apology in 1698.
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Thomas Bullock
Recorder of a report of Joseph Smith’s discourse of 10 March 1844.
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Umar ibn Ali ibn Adil
Author of Al-Lubab fi ulum al-Kitab. The selected Arabic commentary discusses Qur’an 43:61.
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Victorinus
The commentary attributed to Victorinus interprets Revelation’s two witnesses.
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Warren A. Cowdery
Scribe who copied the account of the 3 April 1836 Kirtland Temple visions into Joseph Smith’s journal.
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Warren Cowdery
Copyist identified for the retained meeting minutes containing Joseph Smith’s fifty-six-year statement.
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Wilford Woodruff
Recorder of a report of Joseph Smith’s discourse of 10 March 1844.