Item Detail
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33677
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English
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The Prophet Nephi and the Covenantal Nature of Cut Off, Cursed, Skin of Blackness, and Loathsome
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They Shall Grow Together: The Bible in the Book of Mormon
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Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT
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BYU Religious Studies Center; Deseret Book Company
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107-141
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"I will argue that all four of the Lamanite descriptors in 2 Nephi 5-- cut off, cursed, skin of blackness, and loathsome-- are best understood from within a covenant perspective, specifically from within the ancient Near Eastern suzerain-vassal covenant relationship that God made with Lehi's family. I will begin by exploring how Nephi deliberately structured 1 and 2 Nephi to emphasize the importance of making and keeping covenants. I will then identify and analyze the specific ancient Near Eastern suzerainty treaty, or the Lehitic covenant, that Nephi presented in the opening chapters of 2 Nephi, and I will show how that treaty guided Nephi's behavior, his perspectives, and his writing. Finally, I will demonstrate that Nephi described Laman, Lemuel, and the sons of Ishmael in terms of the rejected Lehitic covenant and that Nephi's representations of them are covenantal in nature, not racial or metaphorical." [Author]
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