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"...and my father dwelt in a tent"
I tried asking this question on that other website, but the responses were primarily paranoid defenses of the legitimacy of the Book of Mormon.
So let me try this again. Why do you suppose Nephi felt the need to write several times (at least 4 by one count) that his father dwelt in a tent? What is the significance? Is he pointing out that they left all of their wealth behind to go and do as the Lord commanded? |
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If you note, it also says in 3 of those 4 verses about the tent being in the valley of Lemuel.
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I would further suggest that Nephi is making an allusion to the Exodus of Israel. The tent or the tabernacle was clearly a meaningful symbol of the Exodus. We see this reflected in the celebration of the Feast of the Tabernacles where the whole population lived in tents during the celebration to remind them of the Exodus. I see this a literary decision by Nephi to emphasize the similarities between the Lehite exodus to a promised land with the earlier Israelite Exodus to a promised land. I think it is a cool literary feature, and it suggests that Nephi wants the reader to understand the theological dimmensions of their journey so he emphasizes or alludes to the similarities. Last edited by pelagius; 05-15-2007 at 06:12 PM. |
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At least one significant aspect is that he references the camp to its location within the valley, and not at the river. This is in strict adherence, claims Nibley, to Arab custom; as is the fact that they flee from the mountains to the valley, rather than from the valley to the mountains. Lehi in the Desert is a good read for all of this stuff.
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