Nephi

Interpreter Radio Show — March 23, 2025

by Interpreter Foundation | Mar 31, 2025 | 0 comments

Wonder No More: A Review of Into Arabia

by Brant A. Gardner | Mar 21, 2025 | 0 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Some Bountiful Iron

by Kyler Rasmussen | Dec 13, 2024 | 1 comment

Finding Nephi’s Ore

by Bradley R. Larsen | Dec 13, 2024 | 1 comment

Interpreting Interpreter: Nephi’s Leadership

by Kyler Rasmussen | Nov 29, 2024 | 0 comments

What Happened to Nephi at the Camp of the Broken Bow? A Book of Mormon Mystery

by Godfrey J. Ellis | Nov 29, 2024 | 12 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Serpentine (and Womanly) Seeds

by Kyler Rasmussen | Oct 18, 2024 | 0 comments

The Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman in the Standard Works

by Noel Hudson | Oct 18, 2024 | 0 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Armed with Righteous Cloth

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jun 7, 2024 | 2 comments

“Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God”: Allusions to Priestly Clothing, Priesthood, and Temple in 1 Nephi 14:14

by Matthew L. Bowen | Jun 7, 2024 | 4 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: A Prophet, Not a King

by Kyler Rasmussen | Dec 8, 2023 | 2 comments

Nephi Wanted to Be a Prophet Like Moses, Not a King Like David

by Taylor Halverson | Dec 8, 2023 | 1 comment

Interpreting Interpreter: Spiritual Wind

by Kyler Rasmussen | Aug 18, 2023 | 0 comments

“Upon the Wings of His Spirit”: A Note on Hebrew rûaḥ and 2 Nephi 4:25

by Matthew L. Bowen | Aug 18, 2023 | 1 comment

Interpreting Interpreter: Eight Years in the Wilderness

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jul 28, 2023 | 1 comment

Nephi’s Eight Years in the “Wilderness”: Reconsidering Definitions and Details

by Godfrey J. Ellis | Jul 28, 2023 | 26 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Nephi’s Probation

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jul 21, 2023 | 2 comments

The Nephite Metaphor of Life as a Probation: Rethinking Nephi’s Portrayal of Laman and Lemuel

by Noel B. Reynolds | Jul 21, 2023 | 4 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Comparing Bountifuls

by Kyler Rasmussen | Mar 3, 2023 | 0 comments

Nephi’s “Bountiful”: Contrasting Both Candidates

by Warren P. Aston | Mar 3, 2023 | 12 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: An Assyrian “Great Church”

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jan 27, 2023 | 0 comments

Assyria and the “Great Church” of Nephi’s Vision

by Todd Uriona | Jan 27, 2023 | 2 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: For Their Good

by Kyler Rasmussen | Sep 23, 2022 | 1 comment

“For Their Good Have I Written Them”: The Onomastic Allusivity and Literary Function of 2 Nephi 25:8

by Matthew L. Bowen | Sep 23, 2022 | 0 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Visions as Scriptural Blueprint

by Kyler Rasmussen | Aug 5, 2022 | 0 comments

Lehi’s Dream, Nephi’s Blueprint: How Nephi Uses the Vision of the Tree of Life as an Outline for 1 and 2 Nephi

by Noel B. Reynolds | Aug 5, 2022 | 3 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Reframing Nephi’s Shipbuilding

by Kyler Rasmussen | May 27, 2022 | 3 comments

Khor Rori: A Maritime Resources-Based Candidate for Nephi’s Harbor

by George D. Potter | May 27, 2022 | 5 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Ancient Fiery Serpents

by Kyler Rasmussen | Mar 11, 2022 | 2 comments

Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon

by Neal Rappleye | Mar 11, 2022 | 3 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Reynolds’ Scribal Proposal

by Kyler Rasmussen | Mar 4, 2022 | 0 comments

Lehi and Nephi as Trained Manassite Scribes

by Noel B. Reynolds | Mar 4, 2022 | 8 comments

Interpreting Interpreter: Echoes of Joseph in 1 Nephi 22

by Kyler Rasmussen | Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments

“The Lord God Will Proceed”: Nephi’s Wordplay in 1 Nephi 22:8–12 and the Abrahamic Covenant

by Matthew L. Bowen | Jan 21, 2022 | 0 comments

Nephi’s Gethsemane: Seventeen Comparisons from the Literary Record

by Taylor Halverson | Jun 25, 2021 | 1 comment

And the One Pointed the Way: Issues of Interpretation and Translation Involving the Liahona

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 30, 2021 | 16 comments

“Wherefore, for This Cause”: The Book of Mormon as Anti-type of the Brass Serpent

by Matthew Scott Stenson | Mar 12, 2021 | 4 comments

“All Can Partake, Freely”

by Daniel C. Peterson | Feb 19, 2021 | 1 comment

How Not to Read Isaiah

by John Gee | May 15, 2020 | 10 comments

The Importance of Authorial Intention

by Donald W. Parry | May 15, 2020

An Other Approach to Isaiah Studies

by Joshua M. Sears | May 15, 2020 | 3 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Preface

by Brant A. Gardner | Jan 3, 2020 | 6 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 16 – 18

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 27, 2019 | 2 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 14 & 15

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 20, 2019 | 1 comment

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 12 & 13

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 13, 2019 | 1 comment

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 9 – 11

by Brant A. Gardner | Dec 6, 2019 | 6 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 6 – 8

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 29, 2019 | 8 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture — Chapters 4 & 5

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 22, 2019 | 10 comments

Labor Diligently to Write: The Ancient Making of a Modern Scripture

by Brant A. Gardner | Nov 15, 2019 | 14 comments

“And the Meek Also Shall Increase”: The Verb yāsap in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30

by Matthew L. Bowen | Sep 7, 2018 | 7 comments

“Their Anger Did Increase Against Me”: Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph

by Matthew L. Bowen | Dec 30, 2016 | 0 comments

LDS Perspectives Podcast: Nephi and Isaiah with Joseph Spencer

by LDS Perspectives | Nov 11, 2016 | 0 comments

Nephi’s Use of Inverted Parallels

by Dennis Newton | Oct 7, 2016 | 0 comments

“O Ye Fair Ones” — Revisited

by Matthew L. Bowen | Jun 23, 2016 | 7 comments

Nephi’s Change of Heart

by Dennis Newton | Jun 17, 2016 | 2 comments

The “Fiery Darts of the Adversary” in 1 Nephi 15:24

by Stephen O. Smoot | Dec 18, 2015 | 11 comments

Nephi’s Good Inclusio

by Matthew L. Bowen | Nov 20, 2015 | 2 comments

The Hilt Thereof Was of Pure Gold

by John A. Tvedtnes | Oct 4, 2015 | 6 comments

Nephi: A Postmodernist Reading

by Benjamin L. McGuire | Sep 5, 2014 | 3 comments

Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jul 25, 2014 | 7 comments

Nephi the Good: A Commentary on 1 Nephi 1:1–3

by Neal Rappleye | Jan 3, 2014 | 6 comments

Musings on the Making of Mormon’s Book: Preliminary: Nephi as Author

by Brant A. Gardner | Jul 4, 2013 | 3 comments

“Thou Knowest That I Believe”: Invoking The Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11

by David E. Bokovoy | Jul 31, 2012 | 4 comments