Today we continue the war chapters, and get to read some military correspondence. Let’s start with a rough chapter outline and then drill down into individual verses.
Category: Gospel Doctrine
Come Follow Me: Alma 43-48 aka “The War Chapters” Part I
As I’ve pointed out previously, the Book of Mormon moves at different paces in different places. We’ve spent the last few weeks making a slow section even slower, and that means that with today’s chapters, we’ve likely forgotten some important history relevant to today’s readings. After six chapters of doctrinal exposition, we hit the famed “war chapters.” Continue reading
Come Follow Me: Alma 17-22
Alma 17 begins with a chance meeting between Alma and the sons of Mosiah, and then we get a 14 year flashback.
Come Follow Me: Mosiah 12-17
I want to plug Book of Mormon Central for collating published scholarship on lessons- See here for today’s links and summaries. (What they have is partly based on my own old work.) Most of today’s chapters involve Abinadi, his preaching, his words. We tend to read our scriptures without regard for where they came from, or how we got them, but that kind of context is often important. We tend to read direct speech (e.g. “And Abinadi said…”) as verbatim records, but should we? And what difference does it make? Continue reading
Come Follow Me: Notes on Mosiah 7-11
First, a summary. Continue reading
Come Follow Me: Mosiah 4-6
I’d remind you of the book on King Benjamin’s speech (paper here), and the verse-by-verse commentary in it.
I’ll add my own bits which don’t overlap, and happen to be, well, on quasi-controversial topics. Continue reading
Come Follow Me: Mosiah 1-3
To open, we need some big picture structural discussion.
Mosiah 1 is not Mosiah 1. In fact, it is Mosiah 3, and the first two chapters are missing. How do we know this? Continue reading
Come Follow Me: 2 Nephi 6-10
Joseph Spencer’s book on typology and the Book of Mormon appears to be back in print (and free, here). Good stuff, and relevant to today’s material as well as Nephi’s interpretive Isaiah material.
In this section, Jacob is speaking by assignment on a topic from Nephi, (2Ne 6:4), and the topic is Isaiah.
When Bishop Nephi asked me to speak on Isaiah…
Come Follow Me: 2 Nephi 3-5
First, if you haven’t read my post on 2Ne 1-2, you need to; it establishes that the implicit background of these chapters is covenantal and Mosaic, which is key to understanding what happens in these chapters. Continue reading
Come Follow Me: 2 Nephi 1-2
Today we enter into 2 Nephi, which immediately raises the question, why is there a second Nephi? Continue reading
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