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What is Zion?

December 2, 1983 by • Analiza Brigham Young, apostles, appearances, awesome, Babylon, beauty, Bible, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Christian(s), condition of the heart, darkness, destruction, division, Enoch, equal, eternal life, eternal order, goal, God, Heavenly City, Holy land, Holy place(s), invulnerable, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Joseph Smith, kingdom(s) of God, money, Mormon(s), New Education Jerusalem, obedient, one heart, one mind, peace, perfection, power(s), pure in heart, purity, refuge, rhetoric, Roman, safety, sanctify, Satan, sin, society, temple(s), terror, the Gospel, The LORD, the poor, the Prophets, the Saints, the world, treason, truth, Two Ways, type of, virtue(s), Way of Darkness, Way of Light, wealth, wicked, wickedness, Zion

“What is Zion? A Distant View,” in What Is Zion? Joseph Smith Lecture Series, 1972-1973 (Provo: BYU Press, 1973): 1-21; CWHN 9:25-62. This talk, originally given in 1973, was circulated prior to publication as “Waiting for Zion,” typed typescript, 34 pp., d.s. A passionate treatment of one of Nibley’s favorite themes. — Midgley

Gifts

March 14, 1983 by • Adam, Akish, angel(s), apocryphal works writings, apostles, attributes, authority, Bible, Book of Mormon, Cain, character, church work, darkness, debate, defense, definitive answer, earth, economy, eternal life, farming, free, freemen, Gadianton(s), Gadianton(s) robbers, gain, garden, gifts, gifts of God, God, good and evil, handbook, Heavenly Scribe visitors, Helaman, Holy Ghost, honest heart, idol(s), independent, instruct, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., judges, King Benjamin, king-men, knowledge, Korihor, Lamanite(s), Lamech, Last Dispensation, lawyer(s), light, Living God, Living Lord, love, manna, Master Mahan, money, Moroni, murder(s), mysteries, Nephites, nobility, Old Testament, Pahoran, political science, post-war boom, praise, pride, prophecies, prosperity, prosperous nation, qualities, rank, reality, rejoicing, repent, resentment, resurrection, riches, ruin, sacred, Satan, scripture(s), security, snobs, spiritual, spiritual gifts, study, survival, teaching, temporal, text(s), the Gospel, The LORD, the Son of God, tools, vain things, vicious, violence, war, wealth, wisdom, written record(s), Zoramites

CWHN 9:84-117

In the Party, But Not of the Party

January 2, 1982 by • Abraham, apostles, Caesar, Caliphs, Catholic(s), Centurion, Christian(s), churchmen, Claudius, Constantine (Emperor), economy, Egypt, Emperor, Enoch, eternal, Father, Felix, Festus, Gentiles, God, Herod Agrippa, High Priest, Holy Ghost, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, John Chrysostom, Joseph Smith, Khan(s), King(s), Latter-day Saints, love, magistrates, ministers, missionary, Mormonism, Moses, party, Paul the Apostle, Pharaoh, polis, political, politics, Popes, prophet(s), Protestant(s), restoration, Romans, Rome, Satan, Sicarii, temporal, the Church, the Gospel, the Law, The LORD, the press, the Prince of this World, the Savior, Western World, world(s)

22 pp., typed manuscript for an Academics Lecture given on June 3, 1976 at BYU on politics; CWHN 13:105-137. An examination of how the Saints should understand involvement in politics, among other things drawing upon the examples of Paul and Daniel. — Midgley

Souvenirs from Lehi’s Jerusalem

March 2, 1981 by • Akhabar, apostles, Azekah, Babylonia, Bible, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), cuneiform, desert, deteth, disciples, Egypt, Egyptian, Forty Days texts, God, guardhouse, Hebrew(s), Hosha'yahu, Israel, Israelites, Jehoiakim, Jeremiah, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joshua, Judah, Khabiri, King(s), Laban, Lachish, Lachish Letters, Lehi, Little King, Mulek, Nebuchadnezzar, Nedebiah, Nephi, Nephites, Qumran, R. A. Starkey, Rekhabite(s), resurrection, sacrament, seer, the Prophets, theophany, Third Nephi, Torczyner, Uriah, visionary, wilderness, writing, Yahu, Yaush, Zedekiah

The Unsolved Loyalty Problem

February 1, 1981 by • Agathias, angel(s), aristocracy, Asia, Attila, Augustine, barbarians, Christian(s), Christianity, churchmen, civilized man, conformity, Constantine, culture(s), demands, devil(s), East and West, education, Emperor, Empire, fourth century A.D., free men, freedom, God, Greece, Greek, internal decay, Jesus Christ, Khan(s), landowners, loyalty, opposition, oversimplification, pagan(s), panegyrics, Persia, persuasion, polarized loyalties, Priscus, rhetoric, Romanitas, Romans, Rome, scholar(s), Scythians, society, super-weapon, the Church, the Faith, the nobles, Two Worlds, Vandals, Western civilization

Western Political Quarterly 6:4 (1953):631-657; CWHN 10:195. An examination of the problem of loyalty in the 4th century, with obvious significance for our own time. — Midgley

Candidates for the ‘Search Society’

August 1, 1980 by • Abraham, Adam humans before, cosmic background radiation, creation(s), Dr. Kimball Hansen, earth, God, Hugh Nibley, love principle of

BYU Today 34 (August 1980): 12-13

If There Must Needs Be Offense

June 4, 1980 by • Analiza Brigham Young, Babylon, bloodshed, Brigham Young, conflict, contention, enemy, God, Lamanite(s), Latter-day Saints, Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet), nation(s), Nephi, Nephites, peace, prophecies, war, wicked world, wickedness, world(s), Zion

The Ensign 1:7 (July 1971): 53-55; CWHN 13:270-277. See also Nibley’s anti-war letter of March 29, 1971 in BYU Daily Universe

Mixed Voices

March 12, 1980 by • A. E. Housman, Alexander Campbell, American Anthropologist, American Indians, angel(s) Moroni, anti-Mormon, Armenian, B. H. Roberts, Bible, Book of Mormon, Brooklyn tabernacle, C. S. Braden, C. Sheridan Jones, Charles Francis Dams, Christian(s), Christian(s) duty, comparative method, contemporaries, criticism, Cyril of Jerusalem, D. B. Davis, Daniel P. Kidder, David H. Bays, David Marks, delusion, duty, E. D. Howe, Eduard Meyer, Egyptian hieroglyphics, embarrassment, Ethan Smith, evil, Fawn M. Brodie, Francis Kirkham, George Arbaugh, God, Gold Plates, Golden Bible, H. M. Beardsley, Henry C. Sheldon, hieroglyphics, impossibility, imposter, imposture, Indians American, Israel, J. H. Snowden, J. P. Newman, J. W. Gunnison, J.B. Turner, James H. Hunt, Jews, Joachim of Flora, John Hyde, John Reynolds, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Koran, L. Rumble, Lamanite(s), Latter-day Saints, M. B. Hogan, martyr(s), modern Arianism, Mormon Menace, Mormon(s), Mormonism, Moroni, Mosheim, Moslem(s), Nancy Towle, Nephi, Nephites, objectivity, Oliver Cowdery, Origen Bacheler, P. J. Pierce, peculiar, persecution, Prof. Meinhold Kiel, Prof. Rafinesque, prophet(s), public duty, Rabelais, religion, Rev. Charles Shook, Rev. H. Mattison, Rev. John H. Clark, Rev. Samuel Fallows, revelation(s), Saint Anselm, Satan, scholar(s), sects, semantic, Stevenson H. Spaulding, T. Talmage, T. W. P. Taylder, Ten Tribes, the critic(s), the Union, Thomas F. O'Dea, Thomas Gregg, toleration, uncertainty, unworthy, Utah, vague, View of the Hebrews, W. Cross, W. F. Prince, William A. Linn, William Earl LaRue, William Harris

a series of articles (on so-called Mormon “criticism”), in The Improvement Era, 1959; CWHN 8:127-206.

A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price

January 2, 1980 by • A. H. Gardiner, A. H. Sayce, Abraham, Anthon Transcript, authenticity, B. H. Roberts, Berlin dictionary, Bible, Book of Abraham, book of Jarom, Book of Mormon, Breasted, Brigham Young, Christianity, criticism, Deseret News, Deveria, Eduard Meyer, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar, Egyptian(s), Egyptologists, Egyptology, evidence, facsimiles, fragment(s), Franklin S. Spalding, fraud, God, Hebrew(s), hieroglyphics, hypocephali, hypocephalus, ignorance, interpretation, J. M. Sjodahl, Joseph Smith, Latter-day Saints, learned doctors, linguistic, Lythgoe, manuscript(s), Mormon(s), mummies, opinion(s), papryi, Pearl of Great Price, Peters, Petrie, Pharaoh, prophet(s), Ramesseum Dramatic Text, Reuben Hedlock, revelation(s), Robert C. Webb, Royal Society, S. A. B. Mercer, scholar(s), scholarship, text(s), the characters, the critic(s), Thebes, translation, translator, truth, Urim and Thummim, writings

a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1968-1970. The following three chapters, “Setting the Stage– The World of Abraham,” “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” and “The Sacrifice of Sarah,” have been reprinted in CWHN 14:163-218, 319-381

Enoch the Prophet

November 23, 1979 by • angel(s) adversarial, apocalyptic writings, Apocryphon of John, Bible, Book of Enoch, corruption, cruelty, Daughters of Men, depravity, earth corruption of, earthquakes, Enoch, Enoch Son of Jared, evil, fallen angels, God, God charity of, God wisdom of, heavenly order exploitation of, Holy One, Joseph Smith Jr. and Enoch, mercy, Noah, oaths, ordinances changed, Pearl of Great Price, priestcraft(s), priesthood false, Satan and Enoch, Semiazas, Seth, shame, Sons of Heaven, Syriac Apocalypse of Paul, the Flood, The LORD, theodicy, violence, Watchers, Zohar

in Pearl of Great Price Symposium, held at Brigham Young University on November 22, 1975: 76-85, 93-96. Reprinted in CWHN 2:1-18