Jonathon graduated with honors from Brigham Young University with a BA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and is currently completing an MA in Biblical Studies from Trinity Western University in British Columbia. His interests include intertextuality and allusion, narrative criticism, military history, ancient and modern literature, and exegesis in general. He has published articles using Hebrew linguistics to help inform the text of the Book of Mormon, and has done work on the Septuagint in the Book of Mormon.