Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Preliminaries

Part I. Mormon’s Isaiah

2 Controversy in a Nephite Colony

3 Tradition and Innovation

4 A New Direction at the Meridian of Time

5 A Radical Hermeneutic in Outline

Part II. Nephi’s Isaiah

6 Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers

7 The Structure of Nephi’s Record

8 He Shall Set His Hand Again the Second Time

9 As One That Hath a Familiar Spirit

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Joseph M. Spencer is an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.

Reviews

“The most in-depth study of the Isaiah question in Book of Mormon Studies. It is also the first study of its kind to assess the Book of Mormon as it was dictated rather than as it was printed. The result is a truly original reading of the text.” --Elizabeth Fenton, author of Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel