Article Title

The Psalm of Nephi as a Post-Lehi Document

Authors

John W. Welch

Keywords

Book of Mormon studies, Psalm of Nephi, Lehi's death, Book of Mormon small plates

Abstract

Building on ideas presented in the last three FARMS newsletters, this update considers one example of how Nephi's small plates account reflects the time and circumstances in which it was written. Nephi's masterful meditation in 2 Nephi 4:16-35 becomes even more poignant and vivid if we recognize that this psalm was written while Nephi was feeling painfully vulnerable after losing his father.

Recommended Citation

Welch, John W. (1999) "The Psalm of Nephi as a Post-Lehi Document," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 19: No. 6, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol19/iss6/3