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Just Another Book?

March 2, 1963 by • anti-Christian, childhood, Christian(s), Coptic church fragment, Dead Sea Scrolls, desert, Egypt, Elizabeth, fables, Infancy Gospels, James Gospel of, James Proto, Jerome Saint, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Joseph (sold into Egypt), lions, Mary, miracle(s) stories, moved, New Education Testament, Pharisees, Proto-Gospel of James, Protoevangelium of Jesus, pseudo-wisemen Matthew, pseudo-wisemen Thomas, Qumran, scandalous reports, scribe(s), Serapion, Serapion Life of John the Baptist, temple(s), the poor, Torine, trouble

CWHN 8:148-169

The Stick of Judah

July 2, 1960 by • Bible, Book of Mormon, covenant(s), Ephraim, Ezekiel, Gentiles, God, Hebrew(s), Israel, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Smith, Judah, Lord Jehovah, Mohammed, New Education Testament, Old Testament, resurrection, scholar(s), scrolls, shevet, shivite, stick of Joseph, stick of Judah, sticks, wood, writing

a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953; CWHN 8:1-48. An examination of the meaning of Ezekiel 37 in the light of the use of tally sticks. — Midgley

Myths and the Scriptures

June 2, 1956 by • Abraham, Adam, altar of pharaoh, ancient world, apocrypha, Babylonian(s), Bible, Book of Abraham, Catholic(s), Christian(s), clergy, coincidence, contaminated, Dante, dispensation(s), Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptologists, fantasy, Greek myths, Heracles, hierocentric, history, Israel, Israelite history, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Joseph Smith, Lefebure, legends, Milton, Moses, murder bed, myth(s), mythology, nature myths, ordinances, pagan(s), Procrustes, Procrustes bed of, religion, resemblances, rites, ritual, ritual beds, scholar(s), scientific, the Fathers, the Flood, the Gospel, theories, Theseus, true teachings

New Era 1:10 (October 1971): 34-38; CWHN 1:37-47

The Way of the Church: The Apocalyptic Background

November 1, 1955 by • apocalyptic, believing, Christian(s) churches, Christian(s) world, Christianity, end of the earth, eschatology, eschaton, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jews, myth(s), mythology, New Education Testament, reality, religion, renewal of the earth, Rudolf Bultman, scholar(s), skepticism

originally appeared as a series in the Improvement Era, 58 (Jan.–Dec. 1955); CWHN 4:209-322

The Way of the Church: Two Views of Church History

July 1, 1955 by • aeon, apostasy, apostolic times, betrayal, Bible, Catholic(s) Church, Christ's church, Christian(s), Christianity, Church of Christ, complacency, Early the Church, evil, evil times, falling away, followers, Gentiles, God, Holy Ghost, iniquity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, judgment(s), kingdom(s) of God, martyr(s), New Education Testament, paganism, Paul, period, Primitive Church, restoration, revelation(s), sects, the Apostles, the Church history, the Comforter, the Gospel, the Light, The LORD, the wicked, Witness, woe

originally appeared as a series in the Improvement Era, 58 (Jan.–Dec. 1955); CWHN 4:209-322

Baptism for the Dead in Ancient Times

January 2, 1952 by • baptism for the dead, Coptic church papyrus, end of all things, eschatology, Gates of Hell, Jesus Christ Forty Days teachings, restoration of all things, salvation for the dead

A series in The Improvement Era during 1948-1949; CWHN 4: 100-167. Portions of Nibley’s position on baptism for the dead were briefly described and then dogmatically rejected by Bernard Mary Foschini, in “

No Ma’am, That’s Not History

January 1, 1946 by • atheism, Bible, Book of Mormon, dream(s), Eduard Meyer, Egyptian texts, Egyptian(s), Eight Witnesses, evolution, evolutionary scheme, Fawn M. Brodie, First Vision, Gold Plates, identical anecdotes, imposter, insinuation, Joseph Smith, King James Bible, kingdom(s), law of parsimony, Mormon(s), Mormonism, original religion, parallels, persecution, plausible, power(s), preconceived ideas, prejudice(d), Rev. Character Caswell, revealed religion, revelation(s), stable doctrine, temple(s) rites, Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen, Walters, witnesses

No Ma’am, That’s Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie’s Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946): 62 pp.; CWHN 11:1. Subsequently reissued without changes at various times. This is a short, witty reply to Fawn M. Brodie’s No Man Knows My History (New York: Knopf, 1945; …

Of Birthdays

June 1, 1926 by • glory, Muses, setting, shadows, Sun

The Improvement Era 29:6 (June1926): 743; and in Petersen, Boyd Jay, Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2002): 55