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• see Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch, Portrayal of Mormons in comics, Wikipedia:GLAM/Harold_B_Lee_Library/LEcontest, and Wendy Watson Nelson for the pages that used to be here.

Sources for Tree of Life vision

• springboard to prophecy volluz
• Swift dream as visionary literature (this link has the full bibliographic info
• summary of stela in RSC
• RSC Things which my father saw

  mostly devotional. these chapters have a little more meat:

  as apocalyptic literature

  Volluz but, different (amy easton-flake)

  how the visions are used by church leaders (Woodger)

  Charles Swift applies the vision to teaching and learning

  Belnap vision as Cultural narrative

  Grant Hardy on how Lehi and Nephi applied the dream's lessons

  Biblical context

  Driggs loss of plain and precious truths

• Jorgensen Dark Way to the Tree typological unity
• rod of iron in lehi's dream
• rethinking rod of iron
• narrative in theophany
• easton-flake template for understanding Nephi's vision
• apocalyptic revelations in narrative context
• anagogic interpretation

Notes on Approaching the Tree

Book of Mormon scholars have used multiple interpretive lenses to interpret the tree of life vision, which were popular in different eras of Book of Mormon scholarship.

Historical interpretations were popular from the mid 1940s up through the 1980s. In his summary of tree of life visions in Approaching the Tree,

Givens identifies themes in the vision that make up the core of Mormon theology: "personal revelation, Christ, varieties of Zion, new configurations of scripture, and the centrality of family."

References

• Spencer, Joseph (2023). "Wandering in Strange Roads: Interpretations of Lehi's Dream". In Spencer, Joseph; Champoux, Jennifer; Keogh, Benjamin (eds.). Deseret Book. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Spencer, Joseph M. (2020). 1st Nephi. Brief Theological Introductions. Maxwell Institute. ISBN 978-0-8425-0007-4. Wikidata Q123273199.
• Givens, Terryl L. (2009). The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ACTRADE/9780195369311.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-936567-8. Wikidata Q114004901.