Keywords
Book of Mormon, Nephi the writer, Nephi preparing
Abstract
We have the Book of Mormon people because of Lehi. Nephi began the tradition that eventually allowed Mormon to create the Book of Mormon. Lehi led his family to the New World, but Nephi defined his descendants as a record-keeping people. The Nephites were a people of the Book both because Nephi (and his brothers) preserved a record-keeping tradition (the brass plates) and because he began a new one after arriving in the New World. Mormon may be most directly responsible for the Book of Mormon, but the records Mormon used (and many of the organizational structures that Mormon used) began with Nephi.
Recommended Citation
Gardner, Brant
(2020)
"Section 2: Nephi the Writer Chapter 7: Nephi Preparing,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 35, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol35/iss1/11
