The Historical Jesus and the Historical Joseph Smith

Tom Hobson is a retired ECO Presbyterian pastor (ordained in 1983 in the Presbyterian Church USA) and former chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Morthland College.  He is currently transitional pastor at the ECO church in Herrin, IL.  He holds degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity, 1983) and Concordia Seminary STL (Ph.D., 2010).  He has also had a 44+ year heart for the Latter-day Saints.  He has also written What's on God's Sin List For Today? (Wipf and Stock, 2011).  Links to most of his academic writings may be found at his other website, www.biblicalethic.org.