January 2, 1972 by •
ancient writings,
apocrypha,
baptism,
Bible,
biblical manuscripts,
Book of Mormon,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
desert,
Essene documents,
Jewish,
John the Baptist,
Manual of Discipline,
New Education Testament,
Old Testament,
Qumran caves,
Sectarian documents,
Septuagint,
the Gospel of John
Instructor 91:3 (March 1956):71-72,74; CWHN 1:239-244. Some brief references to the Dead Sea Scrolls. — Midgley
February 25, 1969 by •
ancient world,
antiquities,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
Christianity,
Eduard Meyer,
God,
investigations,
Islam,
Joseph Smith and Judaism,
Koran,
miracle(s),
Mohammed,
Mormon(s),
Mormonism,
Moslem(s),
Plan of Salvation,
prophet(s),
religion,
religion revealed,
Satan,
Three Witnesses,
Word of Wisdom
The Ensign 2:3 (March 1972): 55-64. Not all of the footnotes containing the citations for the supporting texts and explanations were published with this essay. — 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
July 13, 1965 by •
Alma,
American Indians,
Arab(s) scholar,
arrow divination,
belomancy,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
brass ball,
compass,
direction,
director,
divination,
divinatory sticks,
Ezekiel,
faith,
familiar,
gifts of God,
God,
Indians American,
Jaredites,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish custom,
Joseph Smith,
Lehi,
Liahona,
magic,
magicians,
miracle(s),
miraculous power,
Nephi,
ordinary,
pointers,
power(s) of God,
punctuation,
revelation(s),
round ball,
shaking,
shining stones,
shooting,
s_hamachul (arabic),
T. Fahd,
temporal,
the critic(s),
the Kaabeh,
time of Ignorance,
tossing,
travelers,
type and shadow,
writing,
zalam
The Improvement Era 64:2 (February 1961):87-89, 104-106, 108-111. An examination of the Liahona in the light of Arabic divination arrows. — Midgley
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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May 2, 1963 by •
Abraham,
Abraham Testament of,
anti-Mormon,
Apocalypse of Abraham,
Bible,
Book of Abraham,
Book of Breathings,
Book of Mormon,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian hieroglyphics,
Egyptologists,
facsimiles,
jealousy,
Joseph Smith,
Joseph Smith Papyri,
Kirtland,
meaningless,
Oliver Cowdery,
papryi Joseph Smith,
Testament of Abraham,
the critic(s),
translation,
vignettes,
W.W. Phelps
Judging and Prejudging the Book of Abraham. An appendix in They Lie in Wait to Deceive, vol. 1:236–45, by Robert L. and Rosemary Brown, edited by Barbara Ellsworth, rev. ed. Mesa, AZ: Brownsworth, 1982.
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
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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