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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February 19, 1965 by •
angel(s),
angel(s) Moroni,
anti-Mormon writers,
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
Book of Mormon,
Christian(s),
E. D. Howe,
E. L. Lewis,
Edinburgh Review,
Eduard Meyer,
Father,
Fawn M. Brodie,
First Vision,
G. Townsend,
God the Father,
Gold Plates,
Henry Caswell,
Hill Cumorah,
J. D. McMillan,
J.B. Turner,
James T. Cobb,
Jesus Christ and the First Vision,
Jewish sectaries,
John C. Bennett,
John Hyde,
John Quincy Adams,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the First Vision,
Joseph Smith Sr.,
Lehi,
Manchester England,
Martin Harris,
Methodism,
Missouri,
Mohammed,
Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet),
Moroni,
Mr. Lind,
Nephite scripture,
New Education York,
Obadiah Dogberry,
Oliver Cowdery,
Painesville Telegraph,
Palmyra New York,
Palmyra Reflector,
prophet(s),
R. W. Beer,
Rev. Nathaniel Lewis,
Rochester Advertiser and Telegraph,
Rochester Gem,
Sidney Rigdon,
Stone Box,
the Savior,
the Son,
the Spirit of the Almighty,
Transfiguration
33 pp. typed transcript of an address given on February 18, 1961 at a Seminar on Joseph Smith held at BYU. Nibley sets forth various reasons for believing that there had been a suppression of the story of the initial vision of Joseph Smith by his enemies between 1820 and 1838. See also the series …
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October 25, 1963 by •
Catholic(s) Church,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
Christopher Columbus,
Constantine (Emperor),
Crusades,
Emperor,
God,
Gregory,
Holy peace,
Islam,
Jerome,
Jerusalem,
Jerusalem earthly,
Jerusalem heavenly,
Jews,
Justinian,
Mormon(s),
Mosque of Omar,
Omar,
Palestine,
peace holy,
peace pilgrimage,
pilgrimage peace,
Popes,
Protestant(s),
Reformation,
Rome,
Salidan,
temple(s),
the Law,
wealth
18 pp. typed transcript of a talk given on October 25, 1963. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3 This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
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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