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'''Todd Merlin Compton''' (born 1952) is an [[United States|American]] [[historian]] in the fields of [[Mormon history]] and [[Classics]]. Compton is a respected authority on [[List of Joseph Smith's wives|the plural wives of the LDS Church founder, Joseph Smith]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Comparing Mormon founder, FLDS leader on polygamy | website=The Salt Lake Tribune | date=2020-03-06 | url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=52371806&itype=CMSID | access-date=2020-07-06}}</ref>

== Biographical background ==
Compton is a member of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]<ref name=Smith>Smith, Julie M. "An Interview with Todd Compton". http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=2826. Accessed 1 November 2007.</ref> who lived for a number of years in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref name=Sign/>  He has served an [[Missionary (LDS Church)|LDS mission]] to [[Latter-day Saint movement in Ireland|Ireland]].<ref>*{{cite journal|first=Todd|last=Compton|title=Counter-Hierarchical Revelation|journal=[[Sunstone Magazine]]|volume=15|issue=2|date=June 1991|pages=34–41|format=[[PDF]]|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/082-34-41.pdf|access-date=2020-07-07|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233944/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/082-34-41.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>  He studied [[violin]] with [[Richard Nibley]]<ref name=Smith/> and has played electric violin with singer-songwriter Mark Davis.<ref name=Sign/>  In 1982 he completed a [[Master of Arts|master's degree]] from [[Brigham Young University]].  He later received a [[Ph.D.]] from [[UCLA]] in [[Classics]] (concentrating on [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Indo-European mythology]]) which he taught for a year at [[University of Southern California|USC]].<ref name=Smith/>  He al(contracted; show full)ion for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies]] (FARMS), including articles in ''FARMS Review of Books'' and ''Journal of Book of Mormon Studies'' and as an editor of the 1987 edition of [[Hugh Nibley]]'s ''Mormonism and Early Christianity''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Todd M. Compton|work=Authors|publisher=[[Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies]]|url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/viewauthor.php?authorID=91|accessdate=2008-07-14
|archive-date=2008-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406061442/http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/viewauthor.php?authorID=91|url-status=dead}}</ref>  He has also been published in ''The [[Encyclopedia of Mormonism]]'', ''Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism'', ''[[American Journal of Philology]]'', ''[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]'', ''[[Sunstone Magazine]]'', ''Classical Quarterly'', and the ''[[Journal of Popular Culture]]''.<ref name=Sign/>

From 1993–1998, Compton served on the Editorial Board for the periodical ''[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Editorial Board|pages=Inside Front Cover b|journal=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]|volume=26|issue=1|date=Spring 1993|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/%2Fdialogue,%2C22645|accessdate=2008-07-29|archive-date=2011-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614015334/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C22645|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Editorial Board|pages=Inside Front Cover|journal=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]|volume=31|issue=4|date=Winter 1998|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/%2Fdialogue,%2C8059|accessdate=2008-07-29|archive-date=2011-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613214039/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C8059|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Starting in 2004, Compton returned to work at ''Dialogue'', this time as the editorial staff's History Editor.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Editor|pages=Inside Front Cover|journal=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]|volume=37|issue=1|date=Spring 2004|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/%2Fdialogue,%2C33352|accessdate=2008-07-29|archive-date=2011-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614015345/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C33352|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Editorial Staff|work=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]|publisher=Dialogue Foundation|url=http://www.dialoguejournal.com/staff/|accessdate=2008-07-29}}</ref>  Compton has also served on the Board of Editors for the ''[[Journal of Mormon History]]'' since 2000.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Board of Editors|journal=[[Journal of Mormon History]]|volume=26|issue=1|date=Spring 2000|pages=iii|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,13256|(contracted; show full)In May 2017, through his company Pahreah Press, Compton published a book on the songwriting of the [[Beatles]], titled ''Who Wrote the Beatle Songs? A History of Lennon-McCartney''.

== Works ==
{{Overly detailed|section|date=July 2020}}
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*{{cite book
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  first          = Hugh W.⏎
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 |  last                 = Nibley
 |  authorlink     = Hugh Nibley
 |editor1            = Todd Compton⏎
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 |editor2=      = [[Stephen D. Ricks]]
  | |title          = Mormonism and Early Christianity
 |  year           = 1987
 |  publisher      = [[Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies]]
 |  series         = The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley
 |  volume         = 4
 |  location       = Salt Lake City
 |  isbn           = 0-87579-127-1
 |  url            = http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=55
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2013-10-15
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20131015142116/http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=55
 |url-status   = dead⏎
}}
*{{cite book
 | author     = Compton, Todd M.
 | title      = In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
 | publisher  = [[Signature Books]]
 | year       = 1997
 | location   = Salt Lake City
 | isbn       = 1-56085-085-X
(contracted; show full) | location   = New York
 | year       = 1992
 | isbn       = 0-02-879600-4
 | pages      = 56–58
 | chapter-url= http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Apostasy
 }}
*{{cite book
 |
  author         = ——
 |  chapter        = Symbolism
 |  title          = [[Encyclopedia of Mormonism]]
 |  volume         = 3
 |  editor         = [[Daniel H. Ludlow]]
 |  publisher      = [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]]
 |  location       = New York
 |  year           = 1992
 |  isbn           = 0-02-879602-0
 |  pages          = 1428–30
 |  chapter-url  = http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Symbolism
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2018-09-22
 |archive-url    = https://web.archive.org/web/20180922204959/http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Symbolism
 |url-status   = dead⏎
}}
*{{cite book
 | author     = ——
 | chapter    = Fawn Brodie on Joseph Smith's Plural Wives and Polygamy: A Critical View
 | title      = Reconsidering 'No Man Knows My History': Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect
 | url     = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780874212143
 | url-access = registration
 | editor     = Newell G. Bringhurst
(contracted; show full) | volume     = 111
 | issue      = 3
 | date       = Autumn 1990
 | pages      = 330–347
 | jstor        = 295155
 }}
*{{cite book
 |
 author     = ——
 | chapter    = The Handclasp and Embrace as Tokens of Recognition
 | title      = By Study and Also by Faith, Volume 1: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
 | editor     = John M. Lundquist, [[Stephen D. Ricks]]
 | publisher  = [[Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies]]
 | location   = Salt Lake City
 | year       = 1990
 | pages      = 611–42
 | isbn       = 0-87579-339-8
 | url        = http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=108&chapid=1249
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = Counter-Hierarchical Revelation
 | journal    = [[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]]
 | volume     = 15
 | issue      = 2
 | date       = June 1991
 | pages      = 34–41
 | format     = [[PDF]]
 | url        = https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/082-34-41.pdf
 }}
*{{cite book
 | author     = ——
 | chapter    = Non-Hierarchical Revelation
 | title      = Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
 | editor     = Maxine Hanks
 | publisher  = [[Signature Books]]
 | location   = Salt Lake City
 | year       = 1992
 | isbn       = 1-56085-014-0
 | url        = http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/women/chapter7.htm#Revelation
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = The Spirituality of the Outcast in the Book of Mormon
 | journal    = [[Journal of Book of Mormon Studies]]
 | volume     = 2
 | issue      = 1
 | date       = Spring 1993
 | pages      = 139–60
 | url        = http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=2&num=1&id=24
 }}
*{{cite journal
 |author      = ——
 |title       = Fanny Alger Smith Custer, Mormonism's First Plural Wife?
 |journal     = [[Journal of Mormon History]]
 |volume      = 22
 |issue       = 1
 |date        = Spring 1996
 |pages       = 172–205
 |url         = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,18163
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20081221184953/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fjmh%2C18163
 |archivedate = 2008-12-21
}}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = A Trajectory of Plurality: An Overview of Joseph Smith's Thirty-three Plural Wives
 | journal    = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 | volume     = 29
 | issue      = 2
 | date       = Summer 1996
 | pages      = 1–38
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,11268
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = Christian Scholarship and the Book of Mormon
 | journal    = [[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]]
 | volume     = 20
 | issue      = 3
 | date       = September 1996
 | pages      = 74–81
 | format     = [[PDF]]
 | url        = https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/103-74-81.pdf
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = Heaven and Hell: The Parable of the Loving Father and the Judgmental Son
 | journal    = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 | volume     = 29
 | issue      = 4
 | date       = Winter 1996
 | pages      = 31–44
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,11061
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = In Sacred Loneliness: An Introduction and Some RLDS Portraits
 | journal    = [[John Whitmer Historical Association Journal]]
 | volume     = 19
 | year       = 1999
 | pages      = 62–78
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = Thoughts on the Possibility of an Open Temple
 | journal    = [[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]]
 | volume     = 23
 | issue      = 1
 | date       = March 1999
 | pages      = 42–9
 | format     = [[PDF]]
 | url        = https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/113-41-49.pdf
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = "Remember Me in My Affliction": Louisa Beaman Young and Eliza R. Snow Letters, 1849
 | journal    = [[Journal of Mormon History]]
 | volume     = 25
 | issue      = 2
 | date       = Fall 1999
 | pages      = 46–69
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,11476
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = Was Jesus a Feminist?
 | journal    = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 | volume     = 32
 | issue      = 4
 | date       = Winter 1999
 | pages      = 1–17
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,7853
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = The Spiritual Roots of the Democratic Party: Why I Am a Mormon Democrat
 | publisher  = Sunstone Symposium
 | date       = Summer 2001
 | url        = http://toddmcompton.com/Democratic_speech.htm
}}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
 | journal    = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 | volume     = 35
 | issue      = 4
 | date       = Winter 2002
 | pages      = 111–34
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,28022
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = "Kingdom of Priests": Priesthood, Temple, and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
 | journal    = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 | volume     = 36
 | issue      = 3
 | date       = Fall 2003
 | pages      = 41–59
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,29103⏎
 author       = ——
 |chapter      = The Handclasp and Embrace as Tokens of Recognition
 |title        = By Study and Also by Faith, Volume 1: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
 |editor       = John M. Lundquist, [[Stephen D. Ricks]]
 |publisher    = [[Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies]]
 |location     = Salt Lake City
 |year         = 1990
 |pages        = 611–42
 |isbn         = 0-87579-339-8
 |url          = http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=108&chapid=1249
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2012-06-12
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120612013540/http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=108&chapid=1249
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = Counter-Hierarchical Revelation
 |journal      = [[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]]
 |volume       = 15
 |issue        = 2
 |date         = June 1991
 |pages        = 34–41
 |format       = [[PDF]]
 |url          = https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/082-34-41.pdf
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2016-03-03
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233944/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/082-34-41.pdf
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite book
 |author       = ——
 |chapter      = Non-Hierarchical Revelation
 |title        = Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
 |editor       = Maxine Hanks
 |publisher    = [[Signature Books]]
 |location     = Salt Lake City
 |year         = 1992
 |isbn         = 1-56085-014-0
 |url          = http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/women/chapter7.htm#Revelation
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2010-07-07
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100707012609/http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/women/chapter7.htm#Revelation
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = The Spirituality of the Outcast in the Book of Mormon
 |journal      = [[Journal of Book of Mormon Studies]]
 |volume       = 2
 |issue        = 1
 |date         = Spring 1993
 |pages        = 139–60
 |url          = http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=2&num=1&id=24
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2013-10-21
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20131021170545/http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=2&num=1&id=24
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author      = ——
 |title       = Fanny Alger Smith Custer, Mormonism's First Plural Wife?
 |journal     = [[Journal of Mormon History]]
 |volume      = 22
 |issue       = 1
 |date        = Spring 1996
 |pages       = 172–205
 |url         = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,18163
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20081221184953/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fjmh%2C18163
 |archivedate = 2008-12-21
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = A Trajectory of Plurality: An Overview of Joseph Smith's Thirty-three Plural Wives
 |journal      = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 |volume       = 29
 |issue        = 2
 |date         = Summer 1996
 |pages        = 1–38
 |url          = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?%2Fdialogue%2C11268
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2012-05-09
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120509185854/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C11268
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = Christian Scholarship and the Book of Mormon
 |journal      = [[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]]
 |volume       = 20
 |issue        = 3
 |date         = September 1996
 |pages        = 74–81
 |format       = [[PDF]]
 |url          = https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/103-74-81.pdf
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2016-03-04
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000027/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/103-74-81.pdf
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = Heaven and Hell: The Parable of the Loving Father and the Judgmental Son
 |journal      = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 |volume       = 29
 |issue        = 4
 |date         = Winter 1996
 |pages        = 31–44
 |url          = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?%2Fdialogue%2C11061
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2011-06-13
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110613213645/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C11061
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = In Sacred Loneliness: An Introduction and Some RLDS Portraits
 | journal    = [[John Whitmer Historical Association Journal]]
 | volume     = 19
 | year       = 1999
 | pages      = 62–78
 }}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = Thoughts on the Possibility of an Open Temple
 |journal      = [[Sunstone Magazine|Sunstone]]
 |volume       = 23
 |issue        = 1
 |date         = March 1999
 |pages        = 42–9
 |format       = [[PDF]]
 |url          = https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/113-41-49.pdf
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2020-06-20
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20200620032519/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/113-41-49.pdf
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = "Remember Me in My Affliction": Louisa Beaman Young and Eliza R. Snow Letters, 1849
 | journal    = [[Journal of Mormon History]]
 | volume     = 25
 | issue      = 2
 | date       = Fall 1999
 | pages      = 46–69
 | url        = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,11476
 }}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = Was Jesus a Feminist?
 |journal      = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 |volume       = 32
 |issue        = 4
 |date         = Winter 1999
 |pages        = 1–17
 |url          = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?%2Fdialogue%2C7853
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2012-05-09
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120509185905/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C7853
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 | author     = ——
 | title      = The Spiritual Roots of the Democratic Party: Why I Am a Mormon Democrat
 | publisher  = Sunstone Symposium
 | date       = Summer 2001
 | url        = http://toddmcompton.com/Democratic_speech.htm
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
 |journal      = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 |volume       = 35
 |issue        = 4
 |date         = Winter 2002
 |pages        = 111–34
 |url          = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?%2Fdialogue%2C28022
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2012-05-09
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120509185846/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C28022
 |url-status   = dead
}}
*{{cite journal
 |author       = ——
 |title        = "Kingdom of Priests": Priesthood, Temple, and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
 |journal      = [[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
 |volume       = 36
 |issue        = 3
 |date         = Fall 2003
 |pages        = 41–59
 |url          = http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?%2Fdialogue%2C29103
 |access-date  = 2020-07-07
 |archive-date = 2012-05-09
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120509185909/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C29103
 |url-status   = dead⏎
}}
*{{cite book
 | author     = ——
 | chapter    = The New Mormon Women's History
 | title      = Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century
 |editor= Newell G. Bringhurst |editor2=[[Lavina Fielding Anderson]]
 | year       = 2004
 | publisher  = Greg Kofford Books
(contracted; show full)
== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.toddmcompton.com  Todd Compton's Home Page]
* {{worldcat id|id=lccn-n96-42666}}
* Audio of interview by [[John Dehlin]] for ''[[Mormon Stories]]'' [[podcast]]: [http://mormonstories.org/?p=65 Part 1], [http://mormonstories.org/?p=66 Part 2 and Part 3]
 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212002659/http://mormonstories.org/?p=66 |date=2012-02-12 }}

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