Robert writes home #108 18 Jan 1998
18 Jan 1998
Dear Mother,
I had a pretty sparse week at seminary last week. It was finals week at school. The numbers are dwindling.
Yesterday I went to Sacramento to the mid year seminary workshop. It was good to be able to wsee how other teachers go about it. I really enjoyed it...all six hours of it. Plus the trip up and back. It made a long day. I left home at 4:30 AM and returned at 7:30 PM.
We're getting quite abit of rain this year.
I have often wondered what the Anti meant in Anti-Nephi-Lehies. I was reading in Nibley's boo, "Since Cumorah," and he explained that in some cases that word meant to mirror back or to imitate...try to be like. Thus Anti-Nephi-Lehi may have meant to be like Nephi and Lehi.
When they talk about the anti-Christs, in which the meaning means to try to destroy belief in Christ and counter his teachings...to be against, they are translating a concept into an English work. In English anti means against. But the Book of Mormon names are translated phonetically to sound like the name sounded. Thus that word in Lamoni's language sounded like anti in English.
I read another book which said that the trouble makers in the Book of Alma were often descendants of Mulek, of the tribe of Judah. And he speculated that they discovered with the brass plates that they were of the tribe of Judah, "The lion's whelp, who would rule over his brethren," according to Jacob's blessing to his son Judah. Thus they felt that they had the right to rule. Many of them were given Jaredite names which may have indicated that Coriantumr had a significant influence on the Mulekites for the nine months that he was with them...names like Corihor and Nehor who were found in the Book of Ether, preceding them, chronologically, by hundreds of years. I can imagine mothers who admired him, naming their kids the names that they heard from the translation of the 24 gold plates or from Coriantumr when he was with them...Just like missionaries name their kids names from the language they learned on their missions. Like my dad named his first baby a Hawaiian middle name after having recently returned from a Hawaiian mission where he had to learn the language in 1919.
It's interesting that so many of the bad guys had Jaredite names.
I'm awed by the book of Mormon.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Sam, Heidi Jo.
Dear Mother,
I had a pretty sparse week at seminary last week. It was finals week at school. The numbers are dwindling.
Yesterday I went to Sacramento to the mid year seminary workshop. It was good to be able to wsee how other teachers go about it. I really enjoyed it...all six hours of it. Plus the trip up and back. It made a long day. I left home at 4:30 AM and returned at 7:30 PM.
We're getting quite abit of rain this year.
I have often wondered what the Anti meant in Anti-Nephi-Lehies. I was reading in Nibley's boo, "Since Cumorah," and he explained that in some cases that word meant to mirror back or to imitate...try to be like. Thus Anti-Nephi-Lehi may have meant to be like Nephi and Lehi.
When they talk about the anti-Christs, in which the meaning means to try to destroy belief in Christ and counter his teachings...to be against, they are translating a concept into an English work. In English anti means against. But the Book of Mormon names are translated phonetically to sound like the name sounded. Thus that word in Lamoni's language sounded like anti in English.
I read another book which said that the trouble makers in the Book of Alma were often descendants of Mulek, of the tribe of Judah. And he speculated that they discovered with the brass plates that they were of the tribe of Judah, "The lion's whelp, who would rule over his brethren," according to Jacob's blessing to his son Judah. Thus they felt that they had the right to rule. Many of them were given Jaredite names which may have indicated that Coriantumr had a significant influence on the Mulekites for the nine months that he was with them...names like Corihor and Nehor who were found in the Book of Ether, preceding them, chronologically, by hundreds of years. I can imagine mothers who admired him, naming their kids the names that they heard from the translation of the 24 gold plates or from Coriantumr when he was with them...Just like missionaries name their kids names from the language they learned on their missions. Like my dad named his first baby a Hawaiian middle name after having recently returned from a Hawaiian mission where he had to learn the language in 1919.
It's interesting that so many of the bad guys had Jaredite names.
I'm awed by the book of Mormon.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Sam, Heidi Jo.
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