Tag: 1 Nephi 1
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Jubilees and Enoch, part 2
With wond’ring awe the wisemen sawThe star in heaven springing,And with delight, in peaceful night,They heard the angels singing: Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna to his name!By light of star they traveled farTo seek the lowly manger,A humble bed wherein was laidThe wondrous little Stranger.Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna to his name!And still is found, the world around,The old…
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Jubilees and Enoch, part 1
I’ve been studying the apocryphal Book of Jubilees and having a great time seeing the book of Genesis as told through the angelic, revelatory worldview of certain “long exile” Israelites (see this post for an overview of what that means). When the narrative gets to Enoch, we are given far more than we find in…
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Nephi’s vision of the harlot
In my last post, I noted that Nephi’s description of his own vision carefully synthesizes elements from his father’s visions, adding layers of depth to his writings. In this post, I want to focus on one particular detail of Nephi’s vision, and look at what Lehi had to say on the same topic. We’ll begin…
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Nephi’s synthesis
Stisa and I often discover a new theme and then work together looking at various scriptures through the lens of that theme. Such is the current situation with the “bride/harlot” theme. His last two posts have looked at King Noah and Abinadi through the “bride/harlot” lens, and my last few posts have done the same…
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sachaq: to laugh (שָׂחַק) — A bivalent covenant term
We’ve been hovering around a theme for several posts now, and I promised to get into a detailed discussion of the great and abominable church as a contrast to the bride symbolizing Zion. But first, we’ll take a brief detour to look at yet another Hebrew root with a dual meaning ‘sachaq’ – to laugh.…
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Mysteries
As Lord Wilmore is posting about ancient cosmology and temple themes in Alma 12, among other things, my mind goes back to a scripture we have discussed before 9 And now Alma began to expound these things unto him, saying: It is given unto many to know the mysteries of God; nevertheless they are laid under a strict command that…
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Endowment Narratives in the Book of Mormon, Part 4 — More symbols and their meaning
This has turned into a pretty long series so far, but we aren’t done yet. I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride. This post will cover a few additional symbols which appear frequently in the ‘endowment pattern’ I’ve outlined in this series.  Before I get to that, it’s probably useful for us to recap what we’ve…
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Endowment Narratives in the Book of Mormon, Part 2a — The (first half of the) Big Picture
This post is a continuation of my previous post on the endowment narrative in the Book of Mormon. This is part 2a. In this part (and part 2b to follow), I’ll lay out the evidence I’ve found so far about the general pattern described in part 1. Before I get to that, I will make…
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Endowment Narratives in the Book of Mormon, Part 1 — Overview and Introduction
I’ve noticed something very interesting in the Book of Mormon. This concept will take several posts to fully flesh out, but here it is in a nutshell: The Book of Mormon contains a recurring covenant pattern I will refer to as ‘the endowment pattern,’ which is told and retold many times. It is the story…
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In the midst — Part 2
Here is part 1 introducing the topic of the word “midst” (tavek in Hebrew) and its covenant connections. I just find the placement of God/Jesus/temple/the word in the midst too often in the scriptures to not have any meaning beyond mere position. This post considers some more examples. We start out with an example in…
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