Talk:The Record of Zeniff

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is part of Latter Day Saint movement WikiProject, an attempt to provide comprehensive and detailed information about the Latter Day Saint movement and Mormonism on Wikipedia. To participate in the project, edit this article, visit the List of articles about the Latter Day Saint movement, the project page, and/or join the discussion. For writing guidelines about contributing to the project, you may want to read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

I started filling in a stub for Zeniff and it kind of blossomed into a larger project. I am hoping that the end result is a coherent, consistent account of the stories of Zeniff, Noah and Limhi, along with accounts of Abinadi and perhaps Alma. It seemed sensible to me to use the Record of Zeniff as a framework for the stories, but it is difficult to maintain an appropriate level of detail. It may be simpler ultimately to include more detail in this article and replace the separate articles on Zeniff, Noah and Limhi with redirects to appropriate sections of this article. Any suggestions? --andersonpd 02:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I feel I've done what I can for now with this article. Additional work remaining includes cleaning up the tense (I tried to use the past tense throughout but there are problems), and perhaps adding a section relating the importance (to Mormons) of the teachings of this portion of the Book of Mormon. Aside from the "wickedness leads to destruction" object lesson, Abinadi's discourse is significant and this section also includes Alma's exhortation to baptism which is widely used in missionary work and at baptismal services. --andersonpd 19:11, 3 September 2005 (UTC)