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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

Israel’s Neighbors

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 …

The Hierocentric State

June 20, 1960 by • Aesir, Alexander the Great, Almighty, Anahita, Ancyra, anti-Christ, Asia, Assyria, Attila, Babylonia, Book of Life, Britain, Byzantine, Caliphs, Celts, Central Asia, China, Christian(s), conquerors, Constantine (Emperor), coronation, creation(s), cruelty, Delphi, Egyptian, Galatians, Gaul, Genghis Khan, God, Goths, Great Assembly, Greek rites, hierocentric, hierocentric shrine, hierocentric state, Holy logberg, Holy shrine, human beginnings race, Huns, hunter(s), Iceland, Islam, Jewish, Justinian, Kaaba at Mecca, Khan(s), King(s), King(s) of the four quarters, King(s) of the four regions, kingdom(s), kingship, Kublai Khan, lapis manalis, meeting place, Mongols, Moslem(s), mountain of the law, navel of Sicily, New Education Year, Nimrod, nobility, nomadic, panegyris, Persian Nauroz, primordial, refuge, rites, ritual, Roman emperor, Roman emperor Empire, Rome, royal blood court, Slavic assemblies, stone circle, Two Kingdoms, universal assembly, universal assembly kingship, world(s) church, Xenophon, Year drama

Western Political Quarterly 4:2 (1951):226-253; CWHN 10:99-147. A study of the role of ritual centers and kingship in ancient regimes. — Midgley

Evolution: A Convenient Fiction

January 1, 1900 by • Charles Darwin, creation(s), creationism, Darwinism, evolutionary theory, guesswork, higher forms, prehistoric man, probabilities, speculation, systematic theology, teleology, theories

G-2 Report, No. 3 N. Webster: Evolution is “a manifestation of related events or ideas in an orderly succession, as in a process of growth….This theory, according to which the higher forms of animal life are derived from the lower…holds that all animals and plants are descendants of a very few simple organisms (or perhaps …