1 Nephi

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Prefatory Contextual Articles and Overview

• David R. Seely, John W. Welch, and JoAnn H. Seely (Editors), "Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem (Collection)" (Link)
• David R. Seely, and JoAnn H. Seely, "Josephus's Portrayal of Jeremiah: A Portrait and a Self-Portrait" (Link)
• Wm. Revell Phillips, "Weather Report from the Valley of Lemuel" (Link)
• Stephen L. Carr, "Birds Along Lehi's Trail" (Link)
• Daniel Peterson, "1 Nephi 1-7" (Link)
• John W. Welch, "They Came from Jerusalem: Some Old World Perspectives on the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• Keith Meservy, "Jerusalem at the Time of Lehi and Jeremiah" (Link)
• Robert F. Smith, "Book of Mormon Event Structure: The Ancient Near East" (Link)
• Camille Fronk, "Desert Epiphany: Sariah and the Women in 1 Nephi" (Link)

Geographic Facets of Lehi's Journey

• S. Kent Brown, "New Light from Arabia on Lehi's Trail" (Link)
• Eugene England, "Through the Arabian Desert to a Bountiful Land: Could Joseph Smith Have Known the Way?" (Link)
• Noel B. Reynolds, "Lehi's Arabian Journey Updated" (Link)
• Lynn M. Hilton and Hope A. Hilton, "In Search of Lehi’s Trail—Part 1: The Preparation" (Link)
• Lynn M. Hilton and Hope A. Hilton, "In Search of Lehi’s Trail—Part 2: The Journey" (Link)
• Daniel B. McKinlay, "The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah" (Link)
• S. Kent Brown, "New Light: "The Place That Was Called Nahom": New Light from Ancient Yemen" (Link)
• Anonymous, "New Light: Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn" (Link)
• Warren P. Aston, "Newly Found Altars from Nahom" (Link)

1 Nephi 1

• 1 Nephi 1:1
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Colophons in the Book of Mormon" (Link)(Link)
  • John Gee, "Four Suggestions on the Origin of the Name Nephi" (Link)
  • Matthew L. Bowen, “Internal Textual Evidence for the Egyptian Origin of Nephi’s Name,” (Link)
  • John Gee, "A Note on the Name Nephi" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "What's in a Name? — Nephi" (Link)
  • (Adapted from Ariel E. Bybee), "The Mother's Role in Teaching Religious Values—Jerusalem, 600BC" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 1:2
  • FAIR entry on "Reformed Egyptian" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey" (Link)
  • Ben McGuire, " Did Lehi Use Egyptian?" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 1:4
  • Donald W. Parry, "Why is the phrase “and it came to pass” so prevalent in the Book of Mormon?" https://www.lds.org/ensign/1992/12/i-have-a-question?lang=eng (Link)]
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"Lehi in the Samaria Papyri and on an Ostracon from the Shore of the Red Sea" (Link)
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick, "The Names Lehi and Sariah—Language and Meaning" (Link)
  • Dana M. Pike, "Response to Paul Hoskisson's "Lehi and Sariah"" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Lehi and Sariah Comments" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "Response to the Comments" (Link)
  • Bible description of some of the many prophets prophesying (Link)
• 1 Nephi 1:7
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"An Archaeologist's View" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "The Calling of Lehi as a Prophet in the World of Jerusalem" (Link)
  • Blake T. Ostler, "The Throne-Theophany and Prophetic Commission in 1 Nephi: A Form-Critical Analysis" (Link)
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick, "Lehi's House at Jerusalem and the Land of His Inheritance" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 1:8
  • John W. Welch, "Textual Consistency" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Lehi's Council Vision and the Mysteries of God" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 1:9-11
  • Brent E. McNeely, "The Book of Mormon and the Heavenly Book Motif" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 1:16-17
  • S. Kent Brown, “Recovering the Missing Record of Lehi” (Link)

1 Nephi 2

• 1 Nephi 2:4-6, 8-9
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"An Archaeologist's View" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 2:5
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick, "Sariah in the Elephantine Papyri" (Link)
  • Ken Haubrock, "Sam: A Just and Holy Man" (Link)
  • John Gee, John A. Tvedtnes, Matthew Roper, "Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 2:6
  • John A. Tvedtnes, “More on the River Laman,” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 2:7
  • S. Kent Brown, “Lehi’s Sacrifices in the Wilderness,” (Link)
  • Anonymous, "Authority to sacrifice among the Nephites?" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "By what authority did Lehi, a non-Levite priest, offer sacrifices?" (Link)
  • David R. Seely, "Lehi's Altar and Sacrifice in the Wilderness" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 2:9-10
  • S. Kent Brown, "The Hunt for the Valley of Lemuel" (Link)
  • Daniel B. McKinley, "The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah" (Link)
  • George Potter, "A New Candidate in Arabia for the "Valley of Lemuel"" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 2:11
  • Matthew Roper, “Lehi as a Visionary Man,” (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, ""A Visionary Man"" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 2:13
  • Fred E. Woods, "Why didn’t Jews in Old Testament times believe Jerusalem could be destroyed?" (Link)

1 Nephi 3

• 1 Nephi 3:3
  • John L. Sorenson, "The "Brass Plates" and Biblical Scholarship." (Link)(pdf download)
  • Sidney B. Sperry, "Some Problems of Interest Relating to the Brass Plates" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 3:19
  • John L. Sorenson, Gordon C. Thomasson, and Robert F. Smith, "Old World Languages in the New World" (Link)

1 Nephi 4

• 1 Nephi 4:2
  • FAIR entry on "Red Sea vs Reed Sea" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 4:2-3
  • David E. Bokovoy, “‘Let Us Be Strong’: Nephi’s Courage in the Context of Ancient Near Eastern Military Exhortations,” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 4:9
  • William J. Adams Jr., "Nephi's Jerusalem and Laban's Sword" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "The Workmanship Thereof Was Exceedingly Fine" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "Steel in Early Metallurgy" (Link)
  • Brett L. Holbrook, "The Sword of Laban as a Symbol of Divine Authority and Kingship" (Link)
  • Daniel N. Rolph, "Prophets, Kings, and Swords: The Sword of Laban and Its Possible Pre-Laban Origin" (Link)
  • William J. Hamblin and A. Brent Merrill, "Swords in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • William J. Hamblin, "Steel in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "metals" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 4:13
  • John W. Welch and Heidi Harkness Parker,"Better that One Man Perish" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "Legal Perspectives on the Slaying of Laban" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, and Kelly Ward, "Thieves and Robbers" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "legal codes in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 4:16
  • William J. Hamblin, "Metal Plates and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • William J. Adams Jr., "Lehi's Jerusalem and Writing on Silver Plates" (Link)
  • William J. Adams Jr., "More on the Silver Plates from Lehi's Jerusalem" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 4:19
  • William J. Hamblin, "Armor in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

1 Nephi 5

• 1 Nephi 5:4
  • John A. Tvedtnes,"A Visionary Man" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 5:8
  • Ariel E. Bybee, “The Mother’s Role in Teaching Religious Values – Jerusalem, 600 BC,” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 5:9
  • S. Kent Brown, “What Were Those Sacrifices Offered by Lehi?” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 5:10
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "The Brass Plates Version of Genesis" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 5:10-14
  • Allen J. Christensen, “The Popol Vuh and Mormon Studies,” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 5:13
  • David R. Seely, and JoAnn H. Seely, "Lehi and Jeremiah: Prophets, Priests, and Patriarchs" (Link)

1 Nephi 7

• 1 Nephi 7:2
  • Sidney B. Sperry, "Did Father Lehi Have Daughters Who Married the Sons of Ishmael?" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "The Composition of Lehi's Family" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 7:14
  • Kent Brown and David Seely, “Jeremiah’s Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi’s Departure” (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "Jeremiah in prison" (Link)

1 Nephi 8

• Chapter Overview
  • Hugh Nibley, "Into the Desert: Lehi the Dreamer" (Link)
  • Hugh Nibley, "Lehi's Dreams" (Link)
  • Dana M. Pike, “Lehi Dreamed a Dream: The Report of Lehi’s Dream in Its Biblical Context,” (Link)
  • Charles Swift, "Lehi's Vision of the Tree of Life: Understanding the Dream as Visionary Literature" (Link)
  • John W. Welch, "The Narrative of Zosimus (History of the Rechabites) and the Book of Mormon (Link)
  • C. Wilfred Griggs, "The Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 8:2
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "The Hebrew Background of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Donald W. Perry, "Hebraisms and Other Ancient Peculiarities in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Corbin T. Volluz, "Lehi's Dream of the Tree of Life: Springboard to Prophecy" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 8:10
  • Martin H. Rasich, "Tree of Life" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 8:19-20
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "Rod and Sword as the Word of God" (Link)
  • John A. Tvedtnes, "The Hebrew Background of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Donald W. Perry, "Hebraisms and Other Ancient Peculiarities in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 8:26, 33
  • Anonymous, “The Queen of Sheba, Skyscraper Architecture and Lehi’s Dream” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 8:31
  • Royal Skousen, “Restoring the Original Text of the Book of Mormon,” (Link)
  • John S. Welch, "Straight (Not Strait) and Narrow" (Link)
  • Noel B. Reynolds, and Royal Skousen, "Was the Path Nephi Saw "Strait and Narrow" or "Straight and Narrow"" (Link)
  • Paul Y. Hoskisson, "Straightening Things Out: The Use of Strait and Straight in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

1 Nephi 10

• 1 Nephi 10:4
  • FAIR Entry on "Book of Mormon time keeping" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 10:14
  • FAIR Entry on "Jacob 5" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 10:18
  • John Tvedtnes, ""From the foundation of the world"" (Link)

1 Nephi 11

• Section Overview
  • Andrew C. Skinner, "The Foundational Doctrines of 1 Nephi 11-14" (Link)
  • Stephen E. Robinson, "Nephi's "Great and Abominable Church"" (Link)
  • Stephen E. Robinson, "Early Christianity and 1 Nephi 13–14" (Link)
• Chapter Overview
  • David E. Bokovoy, "“Thou Knowest That I Believe”: Invoking The Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11" (Link)
  • Allen J. Christensen, "The Sacred Tree of the Ancient Maya" (Link)
  • C. Wilfred Griggs, "The Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 11:8
  • FAIR entry on "snow" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 11:8, 11:13, 11:15
  • Daniel C. Peterson, "Nephi and His Asherah: A Note on 1 Nephi 11:8—23" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 11:9-11
  • Kevin Christensen, “Nephi, Wisdom, and the Deuteronomist Reform” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 11:18, 21, 32
  • FAIR article on textual variant "the son of" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 11:21
  • John W. Welch, ""The Lamb of God" in Pre-Christian Texts" (Link)
• Articles on Izapa Stela number 5 (the so-called "Tree of Life stela"
  • Stewart W. Brewer, "The History of an Idea: The Scene on Stela 5 from Izapa, Mexico, as a Representation of Lehi's Vision of the Tree of Life" (Link)
  • John E. Clark, "A New Artistic Rendering of Izapa Stela 5: A Step toward Improved Interpretation" (Link)

1 Nephi 12

• 1 Nephi 12:9
  • Kevin L. Barney, "Further Light on Enallage," (Link)

1 Nephi 13

• 1 Nephi 13:12
  • Grant Hardy, "Columbus: By Faith or Reason?" (Link)
  • Daniel C. Peterson, "Christ-Bearer" (Link)
  • Arnold K. Garr, "Christopher Columbus: A Latter-day Perspective" (Link)
  • De Lamar Jensen, "The Diario and The Libro of Christopher Columbus" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 13:26
  • John W. Welch, "The Plain and Precious Parts" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 13:28
  • John W. Welch, “Fasting in Earliest Christianity,” (Link)

1 Nephi 14

• 1 Nephi 14:29
  • John W. Welch, "Connections between the Visions of Lehi and Nephi" (Link)

1 Nephi 15

• 1 Nephi 15:23-24
  • Matthew L. Bowen, “‘What Meaneth the Rod of Iron’?,” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 15:20
  • FAIR Entry: "Isaiah in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

1 Nephi 16

• FAIR Entry on "Geographical Facets of Lehi's Journey" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 16:10
  • Robert L. Bunker, "The Design of the Liahona and the Purpose of the Second Spindle" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 16:13-14
  • Daniel B. McKinlay, "The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Shazer" (Link)
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"An Archaeologist's View" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 16:18
  • John L. Sorenson, "Steel in Early Metallurgy" (Link)
  • FAIR entry on "metals" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 16:23
  • William J. Hamblin, "Nephi's Bows and Arrows" (Link)
  • Daniel B. McKinlay, "The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah" (Link)
  • Anonymous, "Nephi's Arrows Create Solid Bulls-eye" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 16:28
  • Robert F. Smith, "Lodestone and the Liahona" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 16:34
  • Warren P. Aston, and Michaela J. Aston, "Lehi's Trail and Nahom Revisited" (Link)
  • James Gee, "The Nahom Maps" (Link)
  • Stephen D. Ricks, "On Lehi's Trail: Nahom, Ishmael's Burial Place" (Link)
  • Daniel B. McKinlay, "The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah" (Link)
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"An Archaeologist's View" (Link)
  • S. Kent Brown, "New Light: "The Place That Was Called Nahom": New Light from Ancient Yemen" (Link)
  • Anonymous, "New Light: Nahom and the "Eastward" Turn" (Link)
  • Warren P. Aston, "Newly Found Altars from Nahom" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Nahom" (Link)

1 Nephi 17

• 1 Nephi 17:1-5, 12, 17-49
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"An Archaeologist's View" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:4
  • S. Kent Brown, "A Case for Lehi's Bondage in Arabia" (Link)
  • S. Kent Brown, "Sojourn, Dwell, and Stay: Terms of Servitude" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:5
  • Daniel B. McKinlay, "The Brightening Light on the Journey of Lehi and Sariah" (Link)
  • Wm. Revell Phillips, "Mughsayl: Another Candidate for Land Bountiful" (Link)
  • Warren P. Aston, "The Arabian Bountiful Discovered? Evidence for Nephi's Bountiful" (Link)
  • Warren P. Aston, "Identifying Our Best Candidate for Nephi's Bountiful" (Link)
  • Terry B. Ball, "Letter to Editor [on the Arabian Bountiful]" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry: "Bountiful" (Link)
  • John Gee, Paul Y. Hoskisson, and Brian M. Hauglid, "What's in a Name? Irreantum" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:9-10
  • Ronald A. Harris, Eugene E. Clark, Jeffrey D. Keith, and Wm. Revell Phillips, “Iron Ore Occurrences in Oman,” (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:24, 44
  • Mark J. Johnson, "Exodus of Lehi Revisited" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:26, 27
  • FAIR entry on "Red Sea vs Reed Sea" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:41
  • Wallace E. Hunt Jr., "Moses' Brazen Serpent as It Relates to Serpent Worship in Mesoamerica" (Link)
  • Diane E. Wirth, "Quetzalcoatl, the Maya Maize God, and Jesus Christ" (Link)
  • Andrew C. Skinner, "Serpent Symbols and Salvation in the Ancient Near East and the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 17:53-55
  • David Calabro, ""Stretch Forth Thy Hand and Prophesy": Hand Gestures in the Book of Mormon" (Link)

1 Nephi 18

• 1 Nephi 18:1, 6, 7
  • Jeffrey R. Chadwick,"An Archaeologist's View" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 18:6
  • John L. Sorenson, "Transoceanic Crossings" (Link)
  • Stephen C. Jett, "Before Columbus: The Question of Early Transoceanic Interinfluences" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 18:12, 21
  • FAIR entry on "compass" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 18:23
  • John L. Sorenson, "Winds and Currents: A Look at Nephi's Ocean Crossing" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, “Scholar Reviews Future Directions in Book of Mormon Research,” (Link)
  • Warren P. Aston, “El Nino and Lehi’s Voyage Revisited,” (Link)
  • David L. Clark, "Lehi and El Niño: A Method of Migration" (Link)
  • Frederick G. Williams, "Did Lehi Land in Chile?" (Link)
  • John L. Sorenson, "When Lehi's Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Others There?" (Link)
  • Brant Gardner, "The Other Stuff: Reading the Book of Mormon for Cultural Information" (Link)
  • Matthew Roper, "Nephi's Neighbors: Book of Mormon Peoples and Pre-Columbian Populations" (Link)
  • Brant Gardner, "A Social History of the Early Nephites" (Link)
  • William J. Hamblin, "Basic Methodological Problems with the Anti-Mormon Approach to the Geography and Archaeology of the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 18:25
  • FAIR entry on horses (Link)
  • FAIR entry on cattle and cows (Link)
  • Robert R Bennett, "Horses in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
  • Out of the Dust (short article on horses) (Link)

1 Nephi 19

• 1 Nephi 19:1
  • David E. Sloan, "The Book of Lehi and the Plates of Lehi" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 19:10-17
  • Daniel J. Ludlow, "Zenos" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 19:23
  • Cory Daniel Crawford, “Ancient Exegesis and the Study of Scripture,” (Link)

1 Nephi 20

• Overview
  • S. Kent Brown, "What Is Isaiah Doing in First Nephi? Or, How Did Lehi's Family Fare so Far from Home?" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry on "deutero-Isaiah" (Link)
  • FAIR Entry on "Isaiah in the Book of Mormon" (Link)
• 1 Nephi 20:1
  • FAIR entry on textual variant "out of the waters of baptism" (Link)

1 Nephi 22

• 1 Nephi 22:20
  • John A. Tvedtnes and E. Jan Wilson, “The Prophet Like Moses,” (Link)