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Not to Worry

January 2, 1978 by • adversary, anti-Mormon literature, Bible scholars, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, debate, debating, devil(s), disputation, divine origin, Eduard Meyer, existence, God, Greek, Hebrew(s), Higher Critic, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, literary critic, Mormonism, murmuring, New Education Testament, religion, resurrection, scholar(s), scholarship, schoolmen, Soren Kierkegaard, testimony, the Church, the critic(s), the Higher critic(s), The Terrible Questions, vanity

in Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars, edited by Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996): 139-154. Reprinted from a talk given October 31, 1994

Genesis of the Written Word

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 …

New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study

January 2, 1977 by • Abyssinia, ancient parallels, Anointed One, apocrypha, Arab(s), Assumption of Moses, authenticity, authenticity doubtful, authenticity positive, authenticity possible, Babylon, Bedouin(s), believer, Bible, Book of Jubilees, Book of Mormon, brass, bronze, castles, Catholic(s), China, Christian(s), circumstantial, commentary, complexity, critical examination, criticism, D. W. Thomas, Dead Sea Scrolls, death, deceit, deceiver, discovery, divine power, document discoveries, doubtful authenticity, Eden, Egyptian, Egyptian names, elephants, English, Etruscan, Euphrates, evidence, Ezekiel, forgery, fraud, Friedrich Blass, garden of Eden, Ghumdan, gigunu, God, Godhead, gods, grave, ha-eretz, Hamlet, Hebrew(s), Hebrew(s) Bible, Hem, hermeneutics, hiding up, Hittite(s), hochtempel, Hymn of Thanksgiving, Indo-European, Ishmael, Israel, Israelites, Jacob, Jaredites, Jarmo, Jehoiachim, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph (sold into Egypt), Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Judaeans, Koran, Lachish, Land of Eden, language(s), Lehi, Lehi in the Desert, liberty, limited vocabulary, Manti, Manual of Discipline, Master of Justice, Medieval, Metallic format, Mimmation, Mohammed, Moroni, Moses, Nephi, New Education Testament, New Education World, Noah, nunnation, Old Testament, Old World, Paanchi, philology, plausible story, poet(s) Arab, proof, Pyramid, revelation(s), scholar(s), scholarship, scripture(s), sealed up, Seals of Babylonia, Shakespeare, temples of passage, testimony, the critic(s), the Scrolls, tieftempel, Tigris, Tower of Babel, tower temples, Turamian, Ur-Abraham, Ur-Genesis, weights and measures, witnesses, writing, Zedekiah, Ziggurat

a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953, 1954; CWHN 8:54-126

Ancient Temples: What Do They Signify?

September 2, 1976 by • America ancient, ancient America, Book of Mormon, Central America, Christian(s) church, divine power, Egyptian(s), God, hierocentric, Hopewell culture, Liahona, Messiah, Nephites, New Education World, Old World, powerhouses, religious structures, ruins, sacred centers, temple(s), Urim and Thummim

in The Ensign 2:9 (September 1972): 46-49; reprinted in Parry, Donald W., ed. Temples of the Ancient World (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994), 29-47; CWHN 8: 265-273.

A Strange Thing in the Land

March 27, 1975 by • Abraham, Abyssinia, Adam, angel(s), Apocalypse of Adam, apocalyptic, apocrypha, Bible, Bodleian Library, Book of Adam, Book of Enoch, Book of Jeu, Book of Mormon, celestial law, Christian(s), City of Enoch, cosmology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, God, Greek Enoch, heavenly tablets, James Bruce, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Jude, literature, Mahijah, Mahujah, Methusaleh, Moses, New Education Testament, Noah, Oannes, of Moses, Old Testament, Origen (early church father), Parley P. Pratt, Pearl of Great Price, Prophecy of Enoch, R. H. Charles, Revelation, Richard Laurence, sacred writing, Satan, scholar(s), Slavonic Enoch, The LORD, Watchers, wickedness, Zion

“‘A Strange Thing in the Land’: The Return of the Book of Enoch,” a series of articles in Ensign; CWHN 2:91-301

Our Book of Mormon (book review)

January 2, 1975 by • Book of Mormon, God's dealings, Moroni, Nephite Church, revelation(s), Sidney B. Sperry, Urim and Thummim

Our Book of Mormon by Sidney B. Sperry (Salt Lake City: Stevens & Wallis, 1948), review in The Improvement Era 51:1 (January 1948): 42

Nibley the Scholar

May 21, 1974 by • Book of Mormon, dispensation(s), drama, education, eschatology, eternity, existence, expanding mind, falsehoods, Heavenly Father, Hugh Nibley, ideologies, Joseph Smith, patterns, Perspective, pre-existence, pride, protology, religious hobbies, revelation(s), self-knowledge, Shakespeare, temple(s), testimony, the Church leadership, the Gospel, time, vanity

13 pp., typed transcript of a BYU Forum Assembly in which Nibley was interviewed by Louis Midgley, May 21, 1974

Pearl of Great Price Papyrus Acquisition (Pearl of Great Price Papyri, 14 March 1967)

July 2, 1972 by • Abraham, Abraham literature, Apocalypse of Abraham, Babylonian(s), Bidemon family, Bidemon's heirs, Bishop Spalding, Book of Abraham, Book of Joseph, Book of Mormon, Book of the Dead, Breasted, Chicago fire, conspiracies, conventional, Coptic church document, documents, Dr. Klaus Baer, Egyptian, Egyptian class, Egyptologists, Facsimile, Hebrew(s), Hedlock reproduction, hieratic, hieroglyphics, hypocephali, Jews, Joseph Smith, Lucy Mack picture, manuscript(s), men from Chicago, Mormon(s), mummies, original scribe, Pearl of Great Price, Pharaoh, photographic, President Tanner, Prof. John Wilson, Reorganites, scandal, scribe(s), secret, the Church, the critic(s), unconventional

15 pp., transcript of a talk given on March 14, 1967

More Voices from the Dust

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

Promised Lands

November 28, 1971 by • Ammon, anthropologist, arrow-chain to heaven, Babylon, Bear Chief, Black Elk, Black Mesa, Book of Mormon, Bursum bill, Charles H. Burke, Colorado Plateau, corn, creation(s), culture(s), dance(s), Dawes Act, desolate, desolation, dispensation(s), Ernest L. Wilkinson, Gentiles, God, Hopi Stone, Hopi-Navajo controversy, Hotevilla, Indian Claims Act, Indian Reorganization Act, Indians, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Kachina dolls, Kikmongui, Konistval, Lamanite(s), Life-cycle, National Sacrifice Area, Navajo(s), Nephites, New Education Oraibi, Old Oraibi, patternism, Peabody Corporation, Pedro de Tovar, Religious Crimes Code, religious cultures, Ronald, Shinob, Spencer Palmer, spiritual, sun dance ceremony, technology, Tewaqueptewa, the Gospel, the Great Assembly Spirit, the Hostiles, the Law of Moses, Third Mesa, Tobats, Tom Kuyushva, Tribal Councils, Two Ways, upheavals, uranium, Vertrees, Virgil Bushman, Wanderings, Year drama Rite(s)

CWHN 13:76-101