Dreamers of Zion: Conviction, Leadership and Israel's Renewal Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Historical Background - The Return of the Jews	1
	Christian attitudes towards Zion and the Jewish people	10
	America as "God's New Israel"	12
	Primacy of the Bible in Puritan America	13
	Sense of national destiny	15
	Emerging concern in Britain and America for the Return of the Jews	16
2	The Zionism of Joseph Smith	21
	The Smith family in their Puritan New England setting	21
	Joseph Smith, from birth to theophany	23
	Theophany in a grove	23
	The Book of Mormon	26
	The Book of Mormon and Native Americans	33
	Two Zions and the Restoration of Israel	35
	Joseph Smith, pre-millennialist with a difference	42
	The Concept of Zionic Community: Zion an ensign	43
	Enoch's City of Zion	44
	The Collective Idea	47
	Conflict and Persecution	49
	Philadelphia and Warder Cresson	52
	Orson Hyde's assignment to Jerusalem	56
	Nauvoo and the Murder of Joseph Smith	59
	Joseph Smith and the Temple	61
	The Influence of Joseph Smith	69
3	The Zionism of George Jones Adams	71
	Joseph Smith: believer in the Redemption of Zion	71
	G. J. Adams' background	72
	G. J. Adams and the Mormons	74
	George Adams and James Strang	88
	The Children of Ephraim	101
	Zion to be established at Jerusalem	105
	Joshua and Caleb go to Palestine, to "spy out the land"	109
	Preparations for the journey to Jaffa	116
	The Jaffa Colony	127
	The growth of dissension	132
	The colony and the consuls	138
	Break-up of the colony	147
	Evaluating the effect of Adam's belief in the redemption of Zion	156
4	The Mormon Movement - Kinship with the House of Israel	161
	Notes	179
	Glossary	204
	Select Bibliography	208
	Index	226