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View ArticleLabor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Preface
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View ArticleAn Other Approach to Isaiah Studies
Abstract: A recent review of Joseph M. Spencer’s book The Vision of All: Twenty-Five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record made the case that the book contains several challenges and problems, in...
View ArticleThe Importance of Authorial Intention
Abstract: It is important when evaluating the words of others to consider the intention of their writing. It also does not hurt to consider what may go on behind the scenes before an article (or a book...
View ArticleHow Not to Read Isaiah
Abstract: In the Book of Mormon, Nephi draws upon his own knowledge of the Jewish people, their culture and language, and the surrounding area to add to his understanding of Isaiah’s words, and...
View Article“All Can Partake, Freely”
Abstract: The Interpreter Foundation welcomes faithful ideas, insights, and manuscripts from people of all backgrounds. In this brief essay, I share some that were recently shared with me regarding...
View Article“Wherefore, for This Cause”: The Book of Mormon as Anti-type of the Brass...
Abstract: Nephi1 represents the sacred record that becomes the Book of Mormon as a new brass serpent to heal the nations. Nephi’s typological project is reasonable given that he self-identifies with...
View ArticleAnd the One Pointed the Way: Issues of Interpretation and Translation...
Abstract: In describing the operation of the spindles in the Liahona, Nephi’s statement that “the one pointed the way” in 1 Nephi 16:10 is frequently taken to mean that one of the two spindles...
View ArticleNephi’s Gethsemane: Seventeen Comparisons from the Literary Record
Abstract: This note explores a literary comparison between Nephi’s confronting of Laban and shrinking from the act of shedding blood, to Jesus’s experience in the Garden of Gethsemane of shrinking from...
View Article“The Lord God Will Proceed”: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8–12 and the...
Abstract: Nephi quotes or alludes to four distinct Old Testament passages — Genesis 22:18; Isaiah 29:14; Isaiah 49:22–23; and Isaiah 52:10 — twice each in 1 Nephi 22:6, 8–12. These four texts form the...
View ArticleInterpreting Interpreter: Echoes of Joseph in 1 Nephi 22
This post is a summary of the article “‘The Lord God Will Proceed’: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8–12 and the Abrahamic Covenant” by Matthew L. Bowen in Volume 50 of Interpreter: A Journal of...
View ArticleLehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes
Abstract: This paper brings together contemporary Ancient Near East scholarship in several fields to construct an updated starting point for interpretation of the teachings of the Book of Mormon. It...
View ArticleInterpreting Interpreter: Reynolds’ Scribal Proposal
This post is a summary of the article “Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes” by Noel B. Reynolds in Volume 50 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. The full...
View ArticleSerpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent...
Abstract: The story of the Israelites getting bitten in the wilderness by “fiery serpents” and then being miraculously healed by the “serpent of brass” (Numbers 21:4–9) is one of the most frequently...
View ArticleInterpreting Interpreter: Ancient Fiery Serpents
This post is a summary of the article “Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon” by Neal Rappleye in Volume 50 of Interpreter: A Journal of...
View ArticleKhor Rori: A Maritime Resources-Based Candidate for Nephi’s Harbor
Abstract: Khor Rori, which forms the mouth of Wadi (Valley) Darbat, is the largest inlet along the Dhofar coast of southern Arabia. The khor was excavated into a harbor by the erosive action of the...
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