A great quote from Elder Richards
 

Elder Richards in an Open Letter to College Students wrote:
"What if Hebrew prophets, conversant with only a small fraction of the surface of the earth, thinking and writing in terms of their own limited geography and tribal relations did interpret Him in terms of a tribal king and so limit his personality and the laws of the universe under his control to the dominion with which they were familiar?"

Stephen L. Richards, Improvement Era, 36 no. 8, (June 1933) 453

It's quite possible.

Interesting
 

Doctrinal dynamite such as this, when wielded by a man who was an apostle at the time and eventually became a member of the First Presidency, is not easily dismissed.

However, since it was said in 1933 and has subsequently had very little effect on current church culture and doctrine, it must have been dismissed as merely opinion.

I find the statement very progressive and thought provoking despite being recorded nearly 75 years ago. I actually like where that line of thinking takes me.

Can you provide the article in its entirety?

I'll look to see if I have a copy of the entire article.

I would assume he expanded on this thought, so I'm curious what else he had to say on the matter.

I may have just lifted it from somebody else's talk, never having seen the entire article. I don't have many articles in total from 1933.

Is this it?

http://eyring.hplx.net/Eyring/faq/ev.../openlttr.html

He was a lot more enlightened than many LDS leaders who followed him decades later.