by Miguel Barker-Valdez | May 6, 2012 | Book of Mormon, Sunday School |
Mosiah chapters 7-11 The story that Mormon tells in chapters 7-11 of Mosiah gets complicated. He uses some unique literary devices that the previous narrators had not used. These include embedded primary texts and flashbacks. Dr. Grant Hardy, Professor of...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Apr 26, 2012 | Book of Mormon, Standard Works, Sunday School |
“Ye Shall Be Called the Children of Christ” Mosiah 4-6 In Mosiah 4-6 we get a continuation of Mormon quoting directly the primary source of King Benjamin’s speech. We must ask why he does so. 4:4 “My friends and my brethren, my kindred and...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Apr 19, 2012 | Book of Mormon, Standard Works, Sunday School |
MOSIAH 1-3 “Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father” Beginning with The Words of Mormon, we are introduced to the second major narrator/historian of the Book of Mormon – Mormon himself. Since he is writing almost a thousand years after some of...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Apr 13, 2012 | Book of Mormon, Standard Works, Sunday School |
THE BOOK OF ENOS In The Book of Enos, we continue to follow the prophetic line that is through Jacob, the brother of 1 Nephi. Since it is still the small plates we are reading up to this point, we hear nothing of the king(s) of the Nephites. Faith as being...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Apr 6, 2012 | Book of Mormon, Standard Works, Sunday School |
THE ALLEGORY OF THE OLIVE TREE Looking back at Chapter 4 of Jacob, we see Jacob addressing his “children” and “beloved brethren.” His children are probably his descendants. Who are his “beloved brethren?” Are they the...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Mar 8, 2012 | Book of Mormon, Standard Works, Sunday School |
2 Nephi 26-33: Nephi’s last words “Thy ways are just” I decided to combine the next two lessons into one post. In hind sight, I should have combined this post with my last; I think the flow would have been better. Taking the romantic view that a...
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