If you don’t mind my saying so, us scripture wonks have been wonking away like nobody’s business. We don’t positively demand your gratitude. But a simple “well done, Wooster et al.!” would not come amiss.

By “et al.,” I mean, of course, Dan Peterson.

2 Nephi 9-

I’m often struck by how matter-of-factly we accept death. Of course, we have no choice.

2 Nephi 8-

The things we normally count on — the firmness and stability of “solid ground,” for example — aren’t really stable or reliable at all.

2 Nephi 7- Wayward children are still children.

2 Nephi 6- Jacob speaks for the first time.

2 Nephi 5-

No good Jew, they say, would ever have built a temple except upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (And what bad, irreligious Jew would want to?)

2 Nephi 4-

for all of the narrative heretofore, Nephi has come across as self-confident and even perhaps a bit smug. (He’s reminiscent, as a matter of fact, of the young biblical Joseph, whose older (half-)brothers are told that they will eventually bow to him, who is clearly Daddy’s favorite, and whose frank expressions of his superior future destiny contribute to their nearly-lethal hatred of him.)

2 Nephi 3- Did the Restoration have a back-up team?


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