Item Detail
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32280
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7
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15
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English
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Josiah to Zoram to Sherem to Jarom and the Big Little Book of Omni
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Interpreter : A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
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2021
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44
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Interpreter Foundation
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217-264
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"The first 450 years of Nephite history are dominated by two main threads : the ethno-political tension between Nephites and Lamanites and religious tension between adherents of rival theologies. These rival Nephite theologies are a Mantic theology that affirms the existence of Christ and a Sophic theology that denies Christ. The origin of both narrative threads lies in the Old World : the first in conflicts between Nephi and Laman, the second in Lehi’s rejection of King Josiah’s theological and political reforms. This article focuses on these interrelated conflicts. It suggests that Zoram, Laman, Lemuel, Sherem, and the Zeniffites were Deuteronomist followers of Josiah. The small plates give an account of how their Deuteronomist theology gradually supplanted the gospel of Christ. As the small plates close, their last author, Amaleki, artfully confronts his readers with a life-defining choice : having read the Book of Mormon thus far, will you remain, metaphorically, with the prophets in Zarahemla and embrace the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, or will you return to the land of Nephi and the theology you believed and the life you lived before you read the Book of Mormon?" [Publisher]
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Demythicizing the Lamanites’ “Skin of Blackness”
Moving Beyond the Historicity Question, or a Manifesto for Future Book of Mormon Research
Nephi’s Eight Years in the “Wilderness”: Reconsidering Definitions and Details
Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem
Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon
Sin, Skin, and Seed : Mistakes of Men in the Book of Mormon
Theosis in the Book of Mormon: The Work and Glory of the Father, Mother and Son, and Holy Ghost -
A Mormon Theodicy : Jacob and the Problem of Evil
Killing Laban : The Birth of Sovereignty in the Nephite Constitutional Order
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
Paradigms Regained : A Survey of Margaret Barker's Scholarship and Its Significance for Mormon studies
Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon
Second Witness : Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics : A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel
The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon
The Lost 116 Pages : Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories
The Most Correct Book : Insights from a
Book of Mormon Scholar
The Priority of Mosiah : A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
When Lehi's Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Others There?