Category Archives: Book of Mormon

This is one of a series of posts examining apparent chapter divisions within the original Book of Mormon manuscript as they apply to Nephi’s writing — here is the introduction and here is the previous post. (The entire list can … Continue reading →

[Update at end of post][Plus additional notes made re: Second Nephi V and Mosiah VIII] While working on the “Parsing Nephi” series, which is an analysis of the chapter structure of the original Book of Mormon manuscripts (scribal and printer), … Continue reading →

This is one of a series of posts examining apparent chapter divisions within the original Book of Mormon manuscript as they apply to Nephi’s writing — here is the introduction and here is the previous post. (The entire list can … Continue reading →

Here’s the introduction to this series, and here is the previous entry. Book of Mormon quotes here, as for the entire series, is taken from The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (Royal Skousen, ed.). This is the first (though … Continue reading →

Here’s the introduction to this series, and here is the previous entry. I’ll now talk about the third chapter of the first “Book of Nephi” from the original Book of Mormon manuscript. Lehi’s Prophecy In Chapter III of First Nephi, … Continue reading →