Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Keywords
salvation, restoration, Isaiah, Bible
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Students of the Bible in the twenty-first century are like a Charles Dickens character living in the best and worst of times. Today we have the advantage of thousands of years of biblical studies on which to build our interpretations and understandings of the Bible. The formation of modern academic disciplines—such as textual, historical, source, and form criticisms, to name a few—for approaching ancient texts over the past 130 years has greatly enhanced our ability to draw meaning out of the text.1 Yet conversely, thousands of years separate us from when the sacred oracles were first conveyed. Hence, the transmission of intent and meaning to a modern-day student has been clouded through time, culture, language, and circumstances.2 In addition, challenges arise from the lack of original documents, the vast quantity of textual variance from copy to copy, and centuries of interpretive tradition with which to contend. Given such obstacles, it is a wonder interpretive agreement of any kind exists.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Jepson, Jared A. "The Stem of Salvation and the Rod of Restoration: Revisiting Biblical Exegesis and Latter-day Saint Interpretation of Isaiah 11:1." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 20, no. 3 (2019): 73-95. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol20/iss3/6