August 19, 1983 by •
Babylon,
black robes of a false priesthood,
equality,
false priesthood,
headdress,
Justinianeion,
leadership,
management,
mortar-board,
robe(s),
temple(s),
vain things
August 19, 1983 BYU commencement speech, CWHN 13:486-506 Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3 This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
March 11, 1976 by •
accumulation,
Brigham Young,
character,
computers,
customs and fashions,
degree,
Dialogue,
discipline,
economy,
education,
eternal progression,
eternity,
experience,
false doctrine,
false ideas,
fashion(s),
glory of God,
god of this world,
Holy Spirit,
honest heart,
ignorance,
intelligence,
Joseph Smith,
kingdom(s),
kitsch,
knowledge,
ladder,
learning,
light,
mediocre,
message,
moral(s) quality,
perishable objects,
practical knowledge,
principles,
real work,
revelation(s),
rhetoric,
riches,
security,
sensibility,
Shakespeare,
success,
talents,
taste,
teaching,
the Gospel,
the mind,
the Spirit,
truth,
vision,
wisdom,
work
Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo: BYU Press, 1976): 2-20. A talk given on March 11, 1976 at the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University; CWHN 13: 346-379. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
February 13, 1969 by •
Abraham,
Adam,
angel(s),
animals,
anthropologist,
Apocalypse of Abraham,
apostles,
behavior,
Christian(s) writings,
computers,
evil One,
fiction,
gadgets,
God,
good,
intelligence,
light,
machine,
man,
mind,
moral(s),
religion,
righteous the,
robot,
science,
science fiction,
scientist(s),
Sophists,
the Gospel,
The LORD
22 pp. s.s., typed transcript of a talk given February 13, 1969; published, with some changes, in LDSF 2: Latter-day Science Fiction, ed. by Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985): 5-28; CWHN 12:491-531 Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU …
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July 26, 1967 by
Lecture given July 26, 1967. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3 This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
June 9, 1967 by •
computers,
education,
glory,
health,
intelligence,
knowledge,
learning,
mechanism,
power(s),
principles of improvement,
truth,
weaknesses,
wisdom
15 pp., typescript of an addressed delivered on June 9, 1967. For a more refined version of Nibley’s treatment of Brigham Young’s views on education, see his “Educating the Saints,” in CWHN 13:306-345. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found …
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April 10, 1967 by
Lecture given on April 10, 1967. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
March 17, 1965 by •
Abraham,
Alma,
ancient Israel practice,
anti-gnostic,
apocrypha,
apocryphal works writings,
Babylonian(s),
Baruch,
Bible,
Book of Jubilees,
Book of Mormon,
buried up unto the Lord,
Cain,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
Coffin texts,
Copper Scroll,
Creation Apocrypha,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
Demotic,
devil(s),
doctrine(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian(s),
ephod of Cia,
false teachers,
filthy water,
Gentiles,
Gilgamish,
God,
Helaman,
hidden book,
hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
house boat Israel,
images,
iron rod,
Isaac,
Isaiah,
Israel,
Jacob,
Jeremiah,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish Apocrypha,
Jews,
Joseph Smith,
Judaism,
King Benjamin,
King(s) Benjamin,
knowledge,
Laban,
Lehi,
libraries,
Lord Raglan,
Manual of Discipline,
metaphors,
Nephi,
newly discovered,
Odes of Solomon,
olive tree,
Origins of Religion,
Paanchi,
path,
Pharaoh,
plan of redemption,
plates,
pre-existence,
pride of the world,
private libraries,
prophet(s),
reality,
Reformed Egyptian,
righteous,
Satan,
scripture(s),
Sons of Darkness,
Sons of Light,
star(s),
testamentary literature,
the Gospel of Philip,
The LORD,
The Pearl,
the plan,
the Redeemer,
the two ways,
the wicked,
the Word of God,
third dimension,
treasures,
wilderness,
will of God,
Wisdom of Solomon,
writing,
Zenos,
[Egyptian] genealogical records
58 pp. d.s. typed transcript of a lecture given on March 17, 1965; CWHN 12:212-263. The imagery and practices found in the Book of Mormon are compared with certain phrases and material concerns found in Jewish and Christian apocryphal writings. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save …
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February 24, 1965 by •
Abraham,
Akkadian,
Amarna discoveries tablets,
Amorites,
Asia Minor,
Assurbanipal library,
Babylonia,
Beirut,
Bible,
biblical,
Biblos,
Bokazkoi,
Book of Mormon,
Canaan,
Canaanite,
Celts,
Chaldean(s),
Chinese,
Christian(s),
creation(s),
cuneiform,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
deluge,
Egypt,
Egyptian Wisdom Literature,
Etruscan,
Genesis Apocryphon,
Gilgamish,
Greece,
Greek,
Hazor,
Hebrew(s),
Hittite(s),
Hurian(s),
Hyksos,
Indo-European,
Israel,
Jerusalem,
Jews,
kingship,
Lebanon,
Mari library,
Melchizedek,
Mesopotamia,
Mettoni,
Midian,
Minoan,
Nuzzi library,
Old Testament,
On (city of),
Palestine,
Pearl of Great Price,
Persia,
Philistines,
Ras Shamra library,
religion,
Sectarians,
Semitic,
Shabako stone,
Sumerian,
Syria,
the Flood,
the Nile,
Ugarit,
uniformity,
Yeb,
Zadok,
Zadokites
33 pp., a typed transcript of a talk given on February 24, 1965. A discussion of the religious and cultural impact of Egypt, Babylon and other neighbors on events in Israel. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 [Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3] This recording is also …
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March 3, 1964 by •
Abraham and the early Christian church,
Axial change Period of history (600 B.C.),
Boghaz-Keui Turkey,
Book of Mormon buried libraries,
Chenoboskian writings,
Christian(s) history,
Christian(s) library,
Coptic church,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
discoveries at Amarna Royal Archives,
Egyptian Egyptian-Christian Library,
Forty Days,
gnosis pre-Christian,
Greeks,
Hittite(s) records and annals,
Isaac,
Jacob,
Jesus Christ time of,
Jewish Library,
Jews,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the early Christian church,
libraries,
manuscript(s),
Martin Luther,
Nag Hammadi codices,
Odes of Solomon,
Palestine,
patternism,
Pearl of Great Price,
pre-mortal existence,
priesthood,
Prof. William Foxwell Albright,
Protestantism,
Pylos,
Ras Shamra,
redemption,
rediscovery,
Reformation,
restoration of all things,
resurrection,
Roman Catholicism,
sacrament,
shewbread,
temple(s) libraries,
the Church,
the Fall,
the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles,
Two Ways doctrine of the
The Early Christian Church in the Light of Some Newly Discovered Papyri from Egypt (Provo: BYU Extension Publications, 1964): 20 pp. An address delivered to the BYU Tri-Stake Fireside, March 3, 1964, which draws attention to the contents of some of the Coptic Nag Hammadi materials. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 [Right-click (cntrl-click for …
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February 12, 1964 by
Lecture given February 12, 1964. Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3 This recording is also found at BYU Speeches. See also “Evangelium Quadraginta Dierum“, a more polished version of “Forty Day Ministry” published in 1966.