Category Archives: Scriptures

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 →

Here’s the introduction to this series, and here is the previous entry. Nephi has written the first chapter of his “reign and ministry” record on what we refer to as “the small plates”. As noted, Nephi touches on almost every … Continue reading →

Here’s the introduction to this series, and here’s the first entry. Nephi is now starting his second historical record on plates, the first being his transcription/abridgment of his father’s record along with his own historical additions: the “Book of Lehi”, … Continue reading →

Here’s the introduction to this series; briefly put, it is looking at the original ‘chapter’ divisions in the Book of Mormon manuscripts (original and printer’s, resulting in the 1830 first edition). As noted in the introduction, it appears from original … Continue reading →

Most of you are probably aware that the earliest editions of the Book of Mormon (starting with the 1830 first edition) had different chapter divisions than the current LDS editions. The chapter-and-verse divisions that we are used to were devised … Continue reading →