Archive: "Journal Article" Category
March 20, 1968 by •
Abraham,
Abraham literature,
Book of Abraham,
Book of Mormon,
Book of the Dead,
cosmological,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian papyri,
Egyptologists,
Enoch,
facsimiles,
Idrisi,
Joseph Smith,
Kirtland,
Mormon(s),
Osiris,
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
scholar(s),
Sen-Sen fragment,
Stone of Righteousness,
symbols,
the critic(s),
Urim and Thummim
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3:2 (Summer 1968): 99-105. This essay concerns the debate over the Joseph Smith Papyri and the bulk of the number contains materials on this issue. — Midgley
July 2, 1967 by •
ancient religious writings,
Arab(s),
Bible,
buried records,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries in 1947 and 1952 and 1956,
desert,
government of Jordan,
Hebrew(s) University,
Jerusalem,
Jews,
Messiah,
Qumran,
Qumran caves,
Teacher of Righteousness,
Wadi Murrabb'at,
wilderness
Instructor 98:7 (July 1963): 233-235; CWHN 1: 245-252. An address originally given on July 5, 1962, to the Seminary and Institute Faculty assembled at Brigham Young University. — Midgley
January 2, 1967 by •
adversary,
apologists,
apostasy,
apostles,
Apostolic Church,
Apostolic Fathers,
betrayal,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
darkness,
defeat,
disciples,
doctrine of Christ,
Early Christians,
eschatology,
eschaton,
failure,
future,
Gentiles,
gnosis,
gnostic,
God,
Great Assembly Gap,
history,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
John Chrysostom,
martyr(s),
martyrdom,
message,
mysteries,
neglect,
passing of the Church,
Paul,
perverters,
prince of this world,
reticence,
scholar(s),
social gospel,
spiritual decline,
survival,
temple(s),
the Church,
the Church history,
the critic(s),
the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Kingdom,
the Light,
The LORD,
the Primitive Church,
the Prophets,
the two ways
Church History 30: 2 (June 1961): 84-85; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001), and later in BYU Studies 16:1 (Autumn 1975): 139-164; and CWHN 4:168-208. Nibley presents forty arguments for the apostasy in an examination of the expectation of early Christian writers of the fading of the Church. Professor Hans J. Hillerbrand …
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February 18, 1966 by •
ancient world,
Apollodorus,
Athens,
Augustus Caesar,
blackmail,
Christianity,
disciples,
education,
Egypt,
Greeks,
idleness,
imposing appendix,
John Chrysostom,
Palaemon,
pseudo-wisemen,
rhetoric,
Rome,
Seven Sages,
Socrates,
Sophists,
Symmachus,
teachers,
the University of Athens,
tyrant(s),
underachievement,
upper-class,
wisdom
BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley
June 2, 1965 by •
ancient civilization,
Arab(s),
Babylonian(s),
Cicero,
conceited,
entertainment,
Hajji Baba,
intellectual,
knowledge,
orators,
persuasion,
philosophy,
Protagoras,
rhetor,
rhetoric,
scholar(s),
self-interest,
Socrates,
Sophistry,
Sophists,
spoiled
“Victoriosa Loquacitas: The Rise of Rhetoric and the Fall of Everything Else,” Western Speech 20:2 (Spring 1956):57-82; CWHN 10:243-286. A study of the rhetoric of the second Sophistic movement and its influence on politics and culture generally, with obvious significance for our own time because of remarkable parallel developments in the current world of business, …
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Instructor 96:3 (March 1961):84-85; CWHN 8:207-211. A fictional account of how Jerusalem might have been in Nephi’s youth, grounded in roughly contemporary sources. — Midgley
June 20, 1960 by •
Aesir,
Alexander the Great,
Almighty,
Anahita,
Ancyra,
anti-Christ,
Asia,
Assyria,
Attila,
Babylonia,
Book of Life,
Britain,
Byzantine,
Caliphs,
Celts,
Central Asia,
China,
Christian(s),
conquerors,
Constantine (Emperor),
coronation,
creation(s),
cruelty,
Delphi,
Egyptian,
Galatians,
Gaul,
Genghis Khan,
God,
Goths,
Great Assembly,
Greek rites,
hierocentric,
hierocentric shrine,
hierocentric state,
Holy logberg,
Holy shrine,
human beginnings race,
Huns,
hunter(s),
Iceland,
Islam,
Jewish,
Justinian,
Kaaba at Mecca,
Khan(s),
King(s),
King(s) of the four quarters,
King(s) of the four regions,
kingdom(s),
kingship,
Kublai Khan,
lapis manalis,
meeting place,
Mongols,
Moslem(s),
mountain of the law,
navel of Sicily,
New Education Year,
Nimrod,
nobility,
nomadic,
panegyris,
Persian Nauroz,
primordial,
refuge,
rites,
ritual,
Roman emperor,
Roman emperor Empire,
Rome,
royal blood court,
Slavic assemblies,
stone circle,
Two Kingdoms,
universal assembly,
universal assembly kingship,
world(s) church,
Xenophon,
Year drama
Western Political Quarterly 4:2 (1951):226-253; CWHN 10:99-147. A study of the role of ritual centers and kingship in ancient regimes. — Midgley
March 24, 1959 by •
Bible,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
church,
consensus,
Egyptian,
evidence,
God,
historian(s),
historical evidence,
history,
Homer,
ignorance,
Iliad,
Jews,
knowledge,
Mormon(s),
order,
philosophers,
prophecy,
religion,
religious,
scholar(s),
secular,
Sophists,
the system
in Great Issues Forum, Series 2 (Religion), No. 5 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, Extension Division, 1955): 22-39; CWHN 12:434-449. This is the published version of the first of several famous exchanges that Nibley has had with Sterling M. McMurrin. This one was held on March 23, 1955, under the sponsorship of the Department …
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Instructor 88:10 (October 1953):319-320; CWHN 8: 49-53. Columbus seems to have believed that he was led to the Indies by divine revelation. — Midgley
Western Political Quarterly 2:3 (1949): 328-344; CWHN 10:1-32. A study of the role of the marked arrow and related practices, institutions and beliefs in founding and maintaining ancient regimes. — Midgley