Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: 1 Nephi with Jasmin Rappleye Gimenez (part 2)

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Part 2 of the 1 Nephi episode with Jasmin Rappleye.Welcome to the second episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Jasmin Rappleye Gimenez, the Communications Director of Scripture Central.In this episode, they discuss the scholarship surrounding the Book of 1 Nephi, giving it context for readers of the Come, Follow Me curriculum for 2024.References:Approaching the Tree: Interpreting 1 Nephi 8. Eds. Benjamin Keogh, Joseph M. Spencer, and Jennifer Champoux. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2023. Available at https://a.co/d/7o8VLDr (https://a.co/d/7o8VLDr) Spencer, Joseph. 1st Nephi: a brief theological introduction. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2020. Available at https://a.co/d/8hdesoi (https://a.co/d/8hdesoi) Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem. Eds. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and JoAnn H. Seely. Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2004. Available at https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/glimpses-lehi%E2%80%99s-jerusalem (https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/glimpses-lehi%E2%80%99s-jerusalem) Reynolds, Noel B. “The Political Dimension in Nephi’s Small Plates.” BYU Studies Quarterly27:4 (1987). Available at https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/node/128 (https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/node/128) Hardy, Grant. Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2010. Bradley, Don. The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories. United States, Greg Kofford Books, 2019. Welch, John W. “Legal Perspectives on the Slaying of Laban.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 1:1 (1992). Available at https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/legal-perspectives-slaying-laban (https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/legal-perspectives-slaying-laban)

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0:00.0	Let's talk about another take that grows in some ways out of Grant Hardy's method.
0:10.7	This is Joe Spencer's, Joseph Spencer's, brief theological introduction to the book of First Nephi,
0:18.5	which was published by the Maxwell Institute in 2020 as part of a whole series of brief theological introductions to each book in the Book of Mormon.
0:28.6	Joe is very much in the mold of Hardy in the sense that he is a reader who starts from the inside out rather than an outside in approach
0:40.6	to the Book of Mormon.
0:41.5	So there's probably never been a reader of the Book of Mormon who can more closely parse
0:49.4	everything from word choice to punctuation choice at the micro level to things like large
0:56.8	structures that organize big blocks of content throughout the Book of Mormon. He's incredibly
1:02.9	sharp at reading at the micro level and the macro level. And by really focusing on what is there
1:10.6	inside the covers of the Book of Mormon, he's
1:13.3	been able to find all sorts of remarkable discoveries in the book. In our last episode,
1:21.3	listeners will remember that Kim Matheson shared with us Joe Spencer's understanding of the structure of First Nephi.
1:31.3	And it appears to be actually very, very carefully structured in two parts.
1:35.3	You can go back and review that episode if you're interested in that.
1:40.3	I wanted to focus here just for a minute on Joe's reading of the slaying of Laban.
1:48.5	This is a powerful, often problematic, but crucially important episode right here at the very beginning of the Book of Mormon.
2:00.5	And it has been the occasion for much, much, very careful work,
2:06.8	trying to work through the ethics, the theology, the political meaning,
2:14.7	and the cultural meaning of the moment when Nephi slays Laban to obtain the brass
2:21.7	plates. No doubt our listeners are familiar with the basics of that episode, so I won't
2:29.4	necessarily review those basics. But I'll share with you Joe's reading, which I find compelling. And then,
2:35.6	Jasmine, you can tell me what you think. First of all, at the largest level, this episode shows
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