Book of Mormon

Week 7: Jacob₂’s sermon on the Messiah and the gathering of Israel

2 Nephi 6–10

29 October 2015

• Taylor Halverson, “‘O How Great the Goodness of Our God’: 2 Nephi 6–10,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, last modified 5 July 2013.
• John S. Thompson argues that Jacob₂’s sermon was given in connection with the Nephite observance of the Feast of the Tabernacles: “Isaiah 50–51, the Israelite Autumn Festivals, and the Covenant Speech of Jacob in 2 Nephi 6–10,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: FARMS, 1998), 123–50.