Poetry Selections

Anderson, Sharon. "Creek, River, Ocean (1 Nephi 2:9; 1 Nephi 8:32)." The Glory of the Son—Poetic Insights: Jesus Christ and God’s Great Plan of Happiness.

Anderson, Sharon. "Beneath the Canopy of Heaven (1 Nephi 9:1; 1 Nephi 10:16)." The Glory of the Son—Poetic Insights: Jesus Christ and God’s Great Plan of Happiness.

Anderson, Sharon. "Deserts and Dromedaries (1 Nephi 10:7, 9)." The Glory of the Son—Poetic Insights: Jesus Christ and God’s Great Plan of Happiness.

Anderson, Sharon. "The Kingdom Is at Hand (1 Nephi 10:10)." The Glory of the Son—Poetic Insights: Jesus Christ and God’s Great Plan of Happiness.

1 Nephi 8

Heather Hardy, “The Double Nature of God’s Saving Work: The Plan of Salvation and Salvation History,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 15–36.

Grant Hardy, “Prophetic Perspectives and Prerogative: How Lehi and Nephi Applied the Lessons of Lehi’s Dream,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 199–213.

D. Mick Smith, “Sacrifice and Condescension: Types and Shadows for Latter-day Living,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 330–46.

Griggs, C. Wilfred. "The Book of Mormon as an Ancient Book." BYU Studies Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1982): 259-277.

Calabro, David. "Lehi’s Dream and the Garden of Eden." Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 26 (2017): 269-296.

Swift, Charles. "Lehi’s Vision of the Tree of Life: Understanding the Dream as Visionary Literature." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 52-63, 74-75.

Raish, Martin. Tree of Life In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. Vol. 4. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Lane, Jennifer C. “The Presence of the Lord,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 119–34.  

Smith, D. Mick. “Sacrifice and Condescension: Types and Shadows for Latter-day Living,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 330–46.

Dana M. Pike, “Lehi Dreamed a Dream: The Report of Lehi’s Dream in Its Biblical Context,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 92–118.

Stenson, Matthew Scott. "Lehi's Dream and Nephi's Vision: Apocalyptic Revelations in Narrative Context." BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2012): 155-179.

Charles Swift, “‘It Filled My Soul with Exceedingly Great Joy’: Lehi’s Vision of Teaching and Learning,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 347–73.

Russell T. Osguthorpe, “The Power of Inspired Invitations,” in The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision (2011 Sperry Symposium), ed. Daniel L. Belnap, Gaye Strathearn, and Stanley A. Johnson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 1–14.

Tvedtnes, John A.. "Rod and Sword as the Word of God." In Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon: The FARMS Updates of the 1990s, edited by John W. Welch and Melvin J. Thorne, 32-39. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999.

Nelson, Zachary. "The Rod of Iron in Lehi's Dream." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 10, no. 3 (2009): 49-58.

Welch, John W.. "Straight (Not Strait) and Narrow." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 17, no. 1 (2007): 18-25, 83-84.

Pearson, Kevin W.. Stay by the Tree In The One-Hundredth and Eighty-Fifth Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2015.

1 Nephi 9

Olsen, Steven L.. "Nephi's Literary Endeavor." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 4, no. 3 (2003): 133-141.

Noel B. Reynolds, “Nephi’s Political Testament,” in Rediscovering the Book of Mormon: Insights You May Have Missed Before, ed. John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne (Salt Lake City/Provo: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1991), 220–229.

Noel B. Reynolds, “The Political Dimension in Nephi’s Small Plates,” BYU Studies 27, no. 4 (Fall 1987): 20–33.

S. Kent Brown, “Nephi’s Use of Lehi’s Record,” in Rediscovering the Book of Mormon: Insights You May Have Missed Before, ed. John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1991), 3–14.

S. Kent Brown. "Recovering the Missing Record of Lehi." In From Jerusalem to Zarahemla: Literary and Historical Studies of the Book of Mormon, 28-54. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1998.

Tvedtnes, John A.. "Contents of the 116 Lost Pages and the Large Plates." In The Most Correct Book: Insights from a Book of Mormon Scholar, 37-52. Salt Lake City: Cornerstone Publishing, 1999.

Don Bradley, “American Proto-Zionism and the ‘Book of Lehi’: Recontextualizing the Rise of Mormonism,” (M.A. Thesis, Utah State University, 2018).

1 Nephi 10

Tvedtnes, John A.. "Notes and Communications: Knowledge of Christ to Come." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 5, no. 1 (1996): 159-161.

Draper, Richard D.. "The First Coming of the Lord to the Jews: A Book of Mormon Perspective." In A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators, 343-356. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003.

Tvedtnes, John A.. "The Messiah, The Book of Mormon, and the Dead Sea Scrolls." In The Most Correct Book: Insights from a Book of Mormon Scholar, 328-343. Salt Lake City: Cornerstone Publishing, 1999.

James H. Charlesworth, “Messianism in the Pseudepigrapha and the Book of Mormon,” in Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978), 99–137.

Jeffrey R. Chadwick, “Dating the Departure of Lehi from Jerusalem,” BYU Studies 57, no. 2 (2018): 7–51.

S. Kent Brown, and David Rolph Seely. "Jeremiah's Imprisonment and the Date of Lehi's Departure." 2 1 (2001): 15-32.

Seely, David Rolph, and John W. Welch. "Zenos and the Texts of the Old Testament." In The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and John W. Welch, 322-346. Provo, UT/Salt Lake City: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies/Deseret Book, 1994.