Keywords
Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi, holographic, small plates
Abstract
The first, and perhaps most important structural element in 2 Nephi is that there is a 2 Nephi at all. The text we have from the small plates of Nephi are holographic. That is, they are in the hand of the original writers. There is no Mormon standing between the original text and our final version, such as we find in the material from Mosiah to 4 Nephi (or Moroni’s treatment of Ether’s record). We have the chapters just as Nephi created them. We also have the anomaly of two separate books by the very same writer, something that never occurs again in known Nephite history.
Recommended Citation
Gardner, Brant
(2020)
"Chapter 12: Book of 2 Nephi,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 35, Article 18.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol35/iss1/18
