Unlocking Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
Author : Victor L. Ludlow
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590381700
Author : Victor L. Ludlow
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590381700
Author : Donald W. Parry
Publisher : Maxwell Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780934893299
Of Isaiah' prophetic writings, the resurrected Lord taught, "Search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah" (3 Nephi 32:1). Yet no chapters in the Book of Mormon are more difficult to understand than the Isaiah passages quoted by Nephi, Jacob, Abinadi, and Christ himself. The 17 essays in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon take a variety of approaches in seeking to help readers make the most of Isaiah's teachings. The contributing scholars draw on the Book of Mormon prophets as knowledgeable guides, examining how and why those ancient writers used and interpreted Isaiah's prophetic teachings. They explain Nephi's keys for understanding the great prophet, use historical and linguistic information to clarify his meanings, examine recurring themes, and reflect on the influence of these texts on ancient and modern saints.
Author : James Conis
Publisher : Castle Mountain Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2010-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0982710828
The Latter Rain explores the symbols and types of the Book of Isaiah,creating a framework that can then be applied to other books of the Bible,helping the reader perceive meaning that was once obscured in symbolism.One such symbolic type is that of rain. While this type is not exclusive to Isaiah, it is used by Isaiah to symbolize the communication from God to man.
Author : DAVID J. RIDGES.
Publisher : Cedar Fort
Page : pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 9781599556376
Author : Grant Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199745447
Mark Twain once derided the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print." Long and complicated, written in the language of the King James version of the Bible, it boggles the minds of many. Yet it is unquestionably one of the most influential books ever written. With over 140 million copies in print, it is a central text of one of the largest and fastest-growing faiths in the world. And, Grant Hardy shows, it's far from the coma-inducing doorstop caricatured by Twain. In Understanding the Book of Mormon, Hardy offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work's narrative structure in its 180 year history. Unlike virtually all other recent world scriptures, the Book of Mormon presents itself as an integrated narrative rather than a series of doctrinal expositions, moral injunctions, or devotional hymns. Hardy takes readers through its characters, events, and ideas, as he explores the story and its messages. He identifies the book's literary techniques, such as characterization, embedded documents, allusions, and parallel narratives. Whether Joseph Smith is regarded as author or translator, it's noteworthy that he never speaks in his own voice; rather, he mediates nearly everything through the narrators Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni. Hardy shows how each has a distinctive voice, and all are woven into an integral whole. As with any scripture, the contending views of the Book of Mormon can seem irreconcilable. For believers, it is an actual historical document, transmitted from ancient America. For nonbelievers, it is the work of a nineteenth-century farmer from upstate New York. Hardy transcends this intractable conflict by offering a literary approach, one appropriate to both history and fiction. Regardless of whether readers are interested in American history, literature, comparative religion, or even salvation, he writes, the book can best be read if we examine the text on its own terms.
Author : Donald W. Parry
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781606410813
Author : Avraham Gileadi
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780875790763
Author : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher : David Van Leeuwen
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592976654
Author : Joseph M. Spencer
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589586321
Presented as a series of down-to-earth lectures, The Vision of All outlines a comprehensive answer to the question of why Nephi was interested in Isaiah. Along the way, the book presents both a general approach to reading Isaiah in the Book of Mormon and a set of specific tactics for making sense of Isaiah's writings.
Author : Joseph M. Spencer
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Few scholars of the Book of Mormon have read this volume of scripture as closely and rigorously as Joseph M. Spencer. And of those, none have devoted as much time and effort as he to a theological reading of that sacred text—that is, as Spencer writes, “how it might shape responsible thinking about questions pertaining to the life of religious commitment” (p. 1:173.) The Anatomy of Book of Mormon Theology divides into two volumes exploring and thinking about these pertinent questions. Whereas the first volume principally contains essays that deal with relatively traditional theological questions and concerns, the essays in this volume ask about what new worlds might be discovered in doing theological work on the Book of Mormon, focusing on what Spencer calls “microscopic” and “macroscopic” theological readings of the text. Essays in the first set examine no more than a verse of the Book of Mormon—more often just a single phrase or two—to see what theological implications lie within the details of the text. The second set of essays ask questions about the shape and intentions of the whole of the Book of Mormon, as this can be discerned through the ways it deploys biblical texts—and especially the writings of Isaiah. A third set of essays follows the two on microscopic and macroscopic styles of theology and are invitations to blur the boundaries that separate different styles of Book of Mormon scholarship. These final essays call on Book of Mormon scholars to move closer to theology and calls on theologians to move closer to the Book of Mormon.