This text covers many of the struggles Nephi faced while trying to get his family to the promised land. For the show notes, go here.
A PDF copy of slides that accompany this lesson can be found here.
You can read more on the First Temple Israelite Drama here.
We talked a bit about kingship and the items associated with Israelite temples, notably the items in the Ark of The Covenant in the First Israelite Temple. Please note that this short paper is a work in progress and will be updated as we move forward. For more on the Nephite ark and the items that would have been equivalencies, go here.
For some good questions to use to facilitate a good discussion that relate with 1 Nephi 16, go here.
We mentioned LeGrand Baker and Stephen Ricks’ book Who Shall Ascend into the Hill of the Lord?: The Psalms in Israel’s Temple Worship in the Old Testament and in the Book of Mormon. You can access a free PDF copy here and here.
A hard copy can also be purchased here.
John Walton’s Lost World of Genesis One discusses how the Creation account was associated with temple worship. You can obtain a copy of this excellent work here.
For a brief examination of Jon Levenson’s paper regarding the temple, creation, and the world, go here.
With so much to cover, we did not cover everything we wanted to touch on in the podcast. One item we didn’t cover was the part where Nephi mentions the family having to eat raw meat. You can read more about that topic here.
We also did not cover the importance of Nahom in the narrative and how it is one geographical marker that validates the authenticity of the record. For a great video that explains this, go here.
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