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It Takes All Kinds

January 1, 1977 by • Abraham, Abram, approaches, Bakhtan, Bakhtan Stele, Bentresh, Book of Abraham, Book of Breathings, Book of the Dead, Chonsu of Thebes, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar, Egyptologists, Egyptology, facsimiles, idol(s), Ishtar of Nineveh, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Papyri, Kirtland, Mormon(s), Naharina, Nimrod, Pharaoh, priesthood, scholar(s), the critic(s), Ur of the Chaldees

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

Fragment Found in Salt Lake City

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

Phase One

March 20, 1968 by • Abraham, Abraham literature, Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, Book of the Dead, cosmological, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar, Egyptian papyri, Egyptologists, Enoch, facsimiles, Idrisi, Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Mormon(s), Osiris, papryi, Pearl of Great Price, scholar(s), Sen-Sen fragment, Stone of Righteousness, symbols, the critic(s), Urim and Thummim

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3:2 (Summer 1968): 99-105. This essay concerns the debate over the Joseph Smith Papyri and the bulk of the number contains materials on this issue. — Midgley

Patriarchy and Matriarchy

June 2, 1965 by • Abraham, Adam, Agamemnon, Akish, angel(s), apostasy, archetypal, ashamed, bridal chamber, Cain, careerism, celestial order, Christian(s) literature, corruption, creation(s) drama(s), daughter of Jared, different natures, disobedience, Egypt, Egyptian, enmity, Enoch, envy, Eve, family, Iliad, Jared, jealousy, Jesus Christ, knowledge, labor, Lamech, light, Maat, Macbeth, marriage, matriarchy, Moses, Mother Earth, Mother of the Living, Nimrod, Odysseus, patriarchal, patriarchy, Penelope, Pharaoh, power(s), Prometheus, Sarah, Satan, Shakespeare, sorrow, temptation(s), the Bridegroom, the Flood, the Gospel, The LORD, The Pearl, Troy, Watchers, Zeus

Address given at annual women’s conference at BYU on 1 Febrary 1980. CWHN 1:87-114

Judging and Prejudging the Book of Abraham

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.

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

Do Religion and History Conflict?

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 …

Myths and the Scriptures

June 2, 1956 by • Abraham, Adam, altar of pharaoh, ancient world, apocrypha, Babylonian(s), Bible, Book of Abraham, Catholic(s), Christian(s), clergy, coincidence, contaminated, Dante, dispensation(s), Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptologists, fantasy, Greek myths, Heracles, hierocentric, history, Israel, Israelite history, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Joseph Smith, Lefebure, legends, Milton, Moses, murder bed, myth(s), mythology, nature myths, ordinances, pagan(s), Procrustes, Procrustes bed of, religion, resemblances, rites, ritual, ritual beds, scholar(s), scientific, the Fathers, the Flood, the Gospel, theories, Theseus, true teachings

New Era 1:10 (October 1971): 34-38; CWHN 1:37-47

Historicity of the Bible

June 2, 1956 by • Amarna, ancient history, Bible, Bible World, biblical books, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christian(s) church, Christian(s) scholars, Christianity, discoveries, Eduard Meyer, Egypt, Egyptian, Eschatoes, eschatological, eschatology, eternal, evidence, existentialism, faith, Fundamentalist, Gentiles, God, God of miracles, Greeks, Hebrew(s) Patriarchs, historicity, history, Hittite(s), Holy Scriptures, Indo-European, infinite, interpretation, Israel, Israelite history, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Jews, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., kingdom(s) of God, liberal, literary, Minoan Script B, miracle(s), Near East, New Education Testament, Old Testament, opinion(s), religion, scholar(s), scholarship, scripture(s), Ugaritic texts

typed transcript of an address given to the Seminary and Institute faculty at BYU on June 19, 1956; CWHN 1: 1-19.