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First Nephi is a first-person narrative of events that the narrative itself reports were recorded on a set of objects referred to by Mormons as the Plates of Nephi by the prophet Nephi. [2] The beginning part of First Nephi consists of Nephi's abridgement of his father Lehi's record [ clarification needed ] (1 Nephi 1–9).
The times when these passages were produced corresponds with a sequence and a consistent pace of translation beginning at Mosiah in April 1829 [8] and then arriving at 1 Nephi later that summer. [7] [9] [10] The pages of the original manuscript containing 1 Nephi are written in Oliver Cowdery's handwriting. [5]
In 2 Nephi 2, Lehi's articulation of the fall of man reinterprets it as a necessary component of God's plans for human salvation. [39] 2 Nephi 2:18 identifies "the serpent" as the devil. [40] According to literary critic Michael Austin, 2 Nephi describes prelapsarian reproduction as impossible, making the fall a prerequisite for procreation. [41]
Grant Hardy has written that Nephi's narrative was written long after the events actually happened "from the spiritual and political needs of thirty years later." [8] Nephi had compelling reasons to shade events in his favor by overemphasizing God's role in the decision to kill Laban and underemphasizing his own. Furthermore, Hardy argues, when ...
Helaman's son Nephi is central to the rest of the record. The book of Helaman as a whole is edited and compiled by Mormon, who is the author of chapter 12. [1] Events are related episodically. The miraculous incidents in Helaman 5 describe a significant conversion of many Lamanites to Book of Mormon Christianity. [2]
The Book of Omni (/ ˈ ɒ m n aɪ /) [1] is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon, a text that the Latter Day Saint movement regards as scripture. The book is written as the combined composition of several authors, the first of whom, Omni, provides the name of the book.
He awoke and recounted it to his children as described in the 8th chapter of the First Book of Nephi. Lehi's son, Nephi, recorded the vision on the golden plates, and later had the same vision, albeit a more detailed version, which he records later in the same book. [3] Nephi's vision also included an interpretation of the vision.
The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters. The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed "the reign of the judges", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial and executive branches of the government were combined.