Probably — I haven’t checked, but I’m pretty confident — the longest chapter in the Book of Mormon, Jacob 5, today’s reading, is also among the most detailed and interesting.
And it was the focus of a major scholarly symposium back in (I think) 1993 under the auspices of the late and sadly missed Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), which was ultimately renamed the “Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship” and has now become something rather different from what it was founded to be (and long was).
The proceedings of that conference were eventually compiled into a 1994 book entitled The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5. The contents of that book are still available online:
http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/book/the-allegory-of-the-olive-tree/
The book is probably almost forgotten today, but it shouldn’t be.
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