@article{McRae2008,
       author = "McRae, Shannon",
       title =  {{Eros and its Discontents: The Israelite House of  David and Their Almost Eden}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/626b50a9-09d9-4a47-90cb-98bf9123f298}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2008,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {2},
       number = {2},
       pages = {70--81},
}

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April 2008

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2011-04-01

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In 1903 an itinerant, long-haired Kentucky preacher named Benjamin Purnell and his wife Mary arrived in a small lakeshore town in southwestern Michigan called Benton Harbor. There, the couple and a few other like-minded people cheerfully began to prepare for the end of the world—the thousand year period of peace and prosperity for the elect that, along with Christ’s return, is promised in the Bible. Soon, hundreds of others came to join them: long-haired bearded men and quaintly-bonneted women, from Australia, England, and other parts of America—the scattered tribes of Israel returned home for the ingathering.

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

2

Issue

2

First Page

70

Last Page

81

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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