Item Detail
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32752
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English
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“For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
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2022
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53
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Orem, UT
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Interpreter Foundation
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77-90
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"Nephi’s writings exhibit a distinctive focus on 'good' and divine 'goodness,' reflecting the meaning of Nephi’s Egyptian name (derived from nfr) meaning 'good,' 'goodly,' 'fine,' or 'fair.' Beyond the inclusio playing on his own name in terms of 'good' and 'goodness' (1 Nephi 1:1; 2 Nephi 33:3–4, 10, 12), he uses a similar inclusio (2 Nephi 5:30–31; 25:7–8) to frame and demarcate a smaller portion of his personal record in which he incorporated a substantial portion of the prophecies of Isaiah (2 Nephi 6–24). This smaller inclusio frames the Isaianic material as having been incorporated into Nephi’s 'good' writings on the small plates with an express purpose: the present and future 'good' of his and his brothers’ descendants down to the latter days." [Article abstract]
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Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon
A Note on the Name Nephi
Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
Name as Key-Word: Collected Essays on Onomastic Wordplay and the Temple in Mormon Scripture
Nephi’s Good Inclusio
Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon
Second Witness : Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Straightening Things Out : The Use of Strait and Straight in the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon : The Earliest Text
The Goodness of God and His Children as a Fundamental Theological Concept in the Book of Mormon
The Things Which my Father Saw : Approaches to Lehi's dream and Nephi's Vision