Comments on: Wilderness Starvation – Reading Nephi – 16:12-17

By: Terry H

Terry H — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 17:32:17 +0000

For a fascinating look at how important food can be, try “The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food” by Lizzie Collingham. Its hard to write something new about World War II, but this book manages. Transport her argument to the time of Nephi and its easy to see why food would be so important.

By: Clark Goble

Clark Goble — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:45:23 +0000

Jeff Walsh, "just accept the story" presumes we understand the story. Readings like this ask questions highlighting what we don't know. It's not that these questions are presuming answers so much as highlighting that the "story" is more complex and perhaps unknown than it first appears. To the OP, it's interesting looking at all the back and forth between critics and apologists over the Nahom debate. While I'll admit I'm pretty skeptical that Nahom is "a bullseye" as some have put it, the debate itself is quite interesting. It seems pretty reasonable to assume the Lehites were following a standard trade route and did meet people along the way. Whether it's ultimately what Kent Brown asserts as the path or not, it seems likely they'd have encountered people along the way and gathered supplies. The bigger question (and I know I'm jumping the gun a bit) is the ocean voyage and preparing food for that.

By: Jerry Schmidt

Jerry Schmidt — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:07:21 +0000

Speculation is part of deconstructing a text, and the Book of Mormon yields rich fruit behind the surface narrative. It’s ok to go with the narrative from its face, and it’s ok to take a deeper dive. Thus speaketh the hippie.

By: Jeff Walsh

Jeff Walsh — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:43:59 +0000

All the speculation gets quite tedious. What is the point, just accept the story, why analysis ????