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Orson Pratt
Latter-day Saint apostle and speaker on the Second Coming.
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Otto Fetting
Author and narrator of the messenger accounts printed in Zion’s Advocate in 1927–1929.
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Owen Russell Loomis Crosier
Author of The Sanctuary.
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Parley P. Pratt
Author of A Voice of Warning; his explanations and proposed fulfillments of prophecy are quoted here.
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Paul
Named sender of 1 Corinthians and attributed author of 2 Thessalonians in the displayed editions.
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Paul Rycaut
English consul at Smyrna and historian of the Ottoman Empire who recorded the Sabbatean movement of 1665–1666.
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Pierre Jurieu
1637–1713
French Reformed minister at Rotterdam whose commentary on the prophecies, translated into English in 1687, dated the fall of the Antichristian empire to 1710–1715.
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Quintus Julius Hilarianus
fl. 397
North African bishop whose chronology of 397 reckoned that 101 years remained until the world’s six thousand years were complete.
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R. C. Zaehner
Translator credited for the displayed Zadspram chapter in the Avesta.org edition, drawing on Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemma (1955).
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R. Hann
Author of a critical collection of Joanna Southcott’s prophecies, published in an eighth edition in 1810.
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Ralph L. Roys
Translator and annotator of the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel.
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Rashi
Medieval commentator on the Hebrew Bible and Talmud whose notes on Daniel and Avodah Zarah reckon the time of redemption.
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Rasmus B. Anderson
Translator of the Younger Edda edition used for the renewed-earth passage.
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Rav Yosef
A named speaker in the Talmudic discussion of the coming of the Messiah.
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Richard Brothers
Author of A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times, which predicts the restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem in 1798.
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Richard Reece
Author of an 1815 account of Southcott’s final illness and postmortem examination.
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Robert B. Thompson
Clerk who signed, with Joseph Smith as chairman, the April 1840 Nauvoo conference letter appointing Orson Hyde and John E. Page to visit the Jews.
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Rodulfus Glaber
Burgundian monk and historian who reported forecasts for the thousandth year of the Passion.
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Russell M. Nelson
Author of The Lord Jesus Christ Will Come Again (2024).
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Rāmānuja
Author of the Gītā Bhāṣya, a commentary interpreting the Bhagavadgītā; the selected English edition also contains Govindacharya’s translator notes.
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Saadia Gaon
Tenth-century Jewish scholar whose reckoning of Daniel’s periods Rashi reports and says had passed.
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Sabbatai Zevi
1626–1676
Jewish messianic claimant from Smyrna, proclaimed Messiah in 1665, who converted to Islam before the Ottoman Sultan in 1666.
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Salimbene of Parma
Franciscan chronicler who recorded the Joachite expectation of 1260 and later gave it up.
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Samuel Rapaport
Collects and renders midrashic readings of Isaiah and Joel in the cited English work.