Difference between revisions of "2 Ne 5:16-20"

From Feast upon the Word (http://feastupontheword.org). Copyright, Feast upon the Word.
Redirect page
Jump to: navigation, search
(Questions)
m (Turning page into redirect after moving content)
 
Line 1: Line 1:
[[The Book of Mormon]] > [[Second Nephi]] > [[Second Nephi 5|Chapter 5]]
+
#REDIRECT [[2 Ne 5:1-34]]
{| 
+
| [[2 Ne 5:11-15|Previous (2 Ne 5:11-15)]]  ||             || [[2 Ne 5:21-25|Next (2 Ne 5:21-25)]]
+
|}
+
== Questions ==
+
* v. 18: Nephi states that he did not want his people to have a king, but he doesn't explain why or what other options he considered before giving in to their request. Was Nephi thinking of [[1 Sam 8:1|1 Samuel 8]], when Samuel was faced with a similar challenge? How might Nephi's aversion to monarchy be connected with political developments in the last years of the Southern Kingdom?
+
 
+
* v. 19: When Nephi says he became his people’s ruler and teacher, is he using these two words to say the same thing (as [[Gen 1:1]] does when it says that the world was “without form and void” in the beginning, or when an angry sister tells her brother to “shut up and be quiet"), or is he saying he was two things, that he was a ruler and he was a teacher? If we think of “ruler and teacher” as two ways of saying the same thing, what might that tell us about being a ruler? A father or mother? Does it say anything about contemporary politics? If we think of “ruler and teacher” as different things here, what does that tell us about Nephi’s relation to his people?
+
 
+
* v. 20-25: Reading these verses in the post Civil Rights era is uncomfortable for many.  What options for interpretation are available here?  What is the curse that came upon those who followed Laman and Lemuel? Was it the darkened color of their skin or something else? If it was the darkness of their skin, how does that explain their idleness and mischief? If it was something else, what was it?  What is the relationship between the curse and the idleness?
+
 
+
== Lexical notes ==
+
* ''Click the edit link above and to the right to add lexical notes''
+
 
+
 
+
== Exegesis ==
+
''Click the edit link above and to the right to add exegesis''
+
 
+
 
+
== Related links ==
+
===Verse 18===
+
* [http://farms.byu.edu/publications/bookschapter.php?bookid=&chapid=93 Here] is an article by Noel Reynolds about Nephi's relationship to kingship quite broadly.
+
 
+
 
+
----
+
{| 
+
| [[2 Ne 5:11-15|Previous (2 Ne 5:11-15)]]  ||             || [[2 Ne 5:21-25|Next (2 Ne 5:21-25)]]
+
|}
+

Latest revision as of 18:09, 2 January 2014