Victor L. Ludlow
Victor L. Ludlow is a religion professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah and the author of several books on the Book of Isaiah, most notably Isaiah, Prophet Seer and Poet.
Biography
Ludlow was born in Spanish Fork, Utah but lived in California, Michigan, Indiana, New York and Provo, Utah while growing up.
Ludlow did his undergraduate studies at BYU. He also served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Central German Mission of the church (later the Germany Dusseldorf Mission) from 1962 to 1964.
Ludlow then received a Danforth Scholarship and studied at Harvard University and Brandeis University, where he received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
Ludlow and his wife Virginia Ann have four sons and two daughters.
Ludlow has served in many callings in the LDS Church including multiple times as a bishop and as president of the church's Germany Frankfurt Mission from 1983 to 1986.
References
- profile on his own page
- Dust jacket "about the author" for Unlocking Isaiah in the Book of Mormon.
- Victor L. Ludlow, “I Have a Question,” Ensign, Apr. 1985, p. 37
- Deseret Book bio
- Living people
- American Latter Day Saints
- American Mormon missionaries
- People from Spanish Fork, Utah
- People from Provo, Utah
- Mormon missionaries in Germany
- Bishops of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Brigham Young University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Brandeis University alumni
- Brigham Young University faculty
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries