Item Detail
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30682
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English
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Plain and Precious Things Lost: The Small Plates of Nephi
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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52
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2
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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85-106
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This article by Rebecca A. Roesler discusses the significance of Nephi's small plates in the Book of Mormon. Roesler examines the text of the Book of Mormon in order to "establish that scriptural texts can...exhibit variation in spiritual understanding" and that such variation can be insightful. She does not comment on the historicity or divinity of the text, but seeks to present "a literary case that, sometime in the generations before Alma, the small plates of Nephi and the teachings thereon are lost or obscured from view."
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