Book Review: "Nephi's Isaiah"

As was my goal, I finished a book this week to report on. "Nephi's Isaiah" by Denver Snuffer Jr. was a fabulous commentary and explanation of Nephi's intentions behind quoting the ancient prophet in his own record. For such a difficult task as engraving characters on gold plates, Nephi certainly thought it worth the effort to inscribe a sizable portion of Isaiah's words. I never took the perspective of reading these words as if Nephi may have had different intentions in writing them than Isaiah's.

Nephi knew we would have access to the bible, and could have just said, "read Isaiah, chapters..." Just as we often use the words of others to get a point of our own across, so does Nephi, and this book, while not intended to be an exhaustive work on the subject, opens up new ways of thinking and reading the words of both of these great ancient prophets.