During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young University. The lectures were video-taped and audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of the lectures. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.

This week, we have lectures 6 through 11, covering 1 Nephi 1-5 and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

All 112 lectures are immediately available in PDF, audio, video, and electronic formats, as well as in paperback books that are available for purchase. Links for all of the available online sources can be found in the Complete Bibliography for Hugh Nibley at https://interpreterfoundation.org/bibliographies/hugh-w-nibley/lectures/.

 

Lecture 6: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1 and Jeremiah 29, Lehi’s Jerusalem. [repeat from last week]

Also called “Souvenirs from Lehi’s Jerusalem.”

Lehi had full baggage. Remember, his people were especially prepared to transfer the culture from one world to the other. We want to find out first what happened to Jeremiah because that’s very much in the story of Lehi. The reason we are bringing this up is that there are some marvelous documents that have appeared “out of the blue“ right from Lehi’s day.

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Lecture 7: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1 and Jeremiah

Also called “The Days of King Zedekiah: ’There Came Many Prophets.’“

Nephi has the four qualities that Matthew Arnold attributes to Homer. The Book of Mormon has them; I don’t know anything else that has them. If you were to be asked, “What is the significance of the Lachish Letters for the Book of Mormon?“ They are immensely important.

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Lecture 8: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi, Escape from Doom

Let’s review quickly the first book of Nephi.

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Lecture 9: Book of Mormon—1 Nephi 1—3, 15

Also called “In the Wilderness.“

The Book of Mormon is a handbook; it’s everything. It’s all in there, far more than you think.

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