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Author: Joseph M. Spencer
Publisher: Salt Press
Keywords: reading, nephi, isaiah
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2011-12-01
ISBN-10: 0983963614
ISBN-13: 9780983963615
This book makes public the results of a project sponsored by the Mormon Theology Seminar. The question driving the papers collected in this volume is the following: How does the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi read, rework, and repurpose the writings of the biblical prophet Isaiah? Each essay in this volume addresses an aspect of the complex relationship between Nephi and Isaiah, ranging from the question of what is at stake when one prophet retools the work of another to the question of how Nephi uses the words of Isaiah to outline the significance of the sealed gold plates to which he contribut
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