January 2, 1982 by •
Abraham,
apostles,
Caesar,
Caliphs,
Catholic(s),
Centurion,
Christian(s),
churchmen,
Claudius,
Constantine (Emperor),
economy,
Egypt,
Emperor,
Enoch,
eternal,
Father,
Felix,
Festus,
Gentiles,
God,
Herod Agrippa,
High Priest,
Holy Ghost,
Israel,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
John Chrysostom,
Joseph Smith,
Khan(s),
King(s),
Latter-day Saints,
love,
magistrates,
ministers,
missionary,
Mormonism,
Moses,
party,
Paul the Apostle,
Pharaoh,
polis,
political,
politics,
Popes,
prophet(s),
Protestant(s),
restoration,
Romans,
Rome,
Satan,
Sicarii,
temporal,
the Church,
the Gospel,
the Law,
The LORD,
the press,
the Prince of this World,
the Savior,
Western World,
world(s)
22 pp., typed manuscript for an Academics Lecture given on June 3, 1976 at BYU on politics; CWHN 13:105-137. An examination of how the Saints should understand involvement in politics, among other things drawing upon the examples of Paul and Daniel. — Midgley
BYU Today 34 (August 1980): 12-13
January 2, 1980 by •
A. H. Gardiner,
A. H. Sayce,
Abraham,
Anthon Transcript,
authenticity,
B. H. Roberts,
Berlin dictionary,
Bible,
Book of Abraham,
book of Jarom,
Book of Mormon,
Breasted,
Brigham Young,
Christianity,
criticism,
Deseret News,
Deveria,
Eduard Meyer,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian(s),
Egyptologists,
Egyptology,
evidence,
facsimiles,
fragment(s),
Franklin S. Spalding,
fraud,
God,
Hebrew(s),
hieroglyphics,
hypocephali,
hypocephalus,
ignorance,
interpretation,
J. M. Sjodahl,
Joseph Smith,
Latter-day Saints,
learned doctors,
linguistic,
Lythgoe,
manuscript(s),
Mormon(s),
mummies,
opinion(s),
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
Peters,
Petrie,
Pharaoh,
prophet(s),
Ramesseum Dramatic Text,
Reuben Hedlock,
revelation(s),
Robert C. Webb,
Royal Society,
S. A. B. Mercer,
scholar(s),
scholarship,
text(s),
the characters,
the critic(s),
Thebes,
translation,
translator,
truth,
Urim and Thummim,
writings
a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1968-1970. The following three chapters, “Setting the Stage– The World of Abraham,” “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” and “The Sacrifice of Sarah,” have been reprinted in CWHN 14:163-218, 319-381
Salt Lake Tribune (Sunday, November 25, 1973): 2G. This was a reply to a “Common Carrier” article by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, in the Salt Lake Tribune (November 11, 1973): 6B. Nibley focuses on the debate over the Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri. — Midgley First of all let me make perfectly …
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January 2, 1977 by •
Abraham,
alphabet,
ancient,
apocryphal works,
Babylonia,
Book of Mormon,
Books,
Canonicity,
Chinese,
cosmic,
creation(s),
cryptogram,
Daybooks,
Demotic,
dispensation(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
eternity,
evolution,
evolutionary,
evolutionary hypothesis,
future,
God,
heaven and earth,
heavenly book,
Heavenly Scribe,
Hebrew(s),
Hermetic,
hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
Hittite(s),
Holy books,
hostile,
house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
Jaredites,
Joseph Smith,
libraries,
memoranda books,
Menes,
Mesopotamia,
miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
pictographs,
picture writing,
power(s),
primordial book,
prophet(s),
proto-Elamitic,
proto-Indian,
records,
resurrection,
sacred book,
scripture(s),
Semitic,
Sent One(s),
Seshat,
Shabako stone,
synthesize,
the Book of the Foundation of Temples,
theories,
tools,
Torah,
uniformitarianism,
universe,
universities,
unknown,
view,
vizier of King Zoser,
writing miracle of,
written language,
written record(s)
(Provo: BYU Press, 1973). This was the Commissioner’s Lecture delivered in 1972. Later reprinted (without the complete footnotes) in The New Era 3:9 (September 1973): 38-50; reprinted again in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 101-127; CWHN 12: 450-490. An examination of writing as a gift from God and …
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January 2, 1972 by •
Abraham,
Book of the Dead,
Christianity,
deeper meaning,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptologists,
fragment(s),
hieratic Egyptian,
hieroglyphic Egyptian,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the Book of Abraham,
Khons,
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
pictures symbolic,
symbolic pictures,
the Church Historian's Office,
Trinity,
Wisdom Literature
BYU Studies 8:2 (Winter 1968): 191-194. Reflections on the recovery of the Joseph Smith Papyri from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. — Midgley