Noel B. Reynolds

Noel Beldon Reynolds (born 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is a political science professor at Brigham Young University where he has also served as an associate academic vice president and as a director for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS).

Biography

Reynolds grew up in Cody, Wyoming and served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Uruguay and Argentina, 1961-1964. Reynolds earned his bachelors degree at BYU and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Reynolds has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Edinburgh University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Reynolds was one of the editors of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992 by Macmillan.

Reynolds is married to the former Sydney Sharon Smith. She was a member of the general presidency of the Primary of the LDS Church from 1999 to 2005. They are the parents of eleven children.

Reynolds has published books and articles in several fields, including: legal and political philosophy (20), American founding (8), authorship studies (11), ancient studies and Dead Sea Scrolls (11), and Mormon studies (18).

Reynolds edited On the History of the Idea of Law authored by Shirley Robin Letwin, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.^[1]

Among other callings in the LDS Church, Reynolds has served as a bishop and as a stake president. From 2005 to 2008, Reynolds was the president of the Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission of the church. During part of this time, the mission included the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=%22Noel+B.+Reynolds%22&cid=13960275017404749593#ps-sellers

References

• biography in "Contributors" section of Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson and John W. Welch, ed., Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon. (Provo, FARMS, 2002)
• Maxwell Institute biography
• Church News, April 2, 2005; February 4, 2006

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