September 9, 1992 by •
Adam,
ancient world,
Ark of the Covenant,
Asiatic(s),
camp,
ceremonial camp,
Christian(s),
combat,
cosmology,
Egypt,
epic hero,
epic literature,
feudalism,
Greeks,
hierocentric state,
Holy Camp,
Holy City,
Jerusalem,
Jews,
King(s),
Mesopotamia,
migration(s),
monarchs,
Near East,
nomads,
Oriental,
outer space,
palace,
Paradise,
pharaohs,
philosophy,
political philosophy,
refuge,
ritual,
Romans,
Royal Progress,
sacred shrine,
sacred tent,
shrine,
State,
tax,
tent(s),
the Flood,
The LORD,
the Temple,
toll,
underworld,
war,
Windflood
Western Political Quarterly 29:4 (December 1966): 599-630; CWHN 10:33-98. An historical study of the roots of taxation, property and political dominion. — Midgley
September 2, 1978 by •
Babylon,
Greeks,
Last Days,
Plan of Salvation,
politics,
politics and the Gospel,
politics and war,
politics and work,
repentance,
restoration of all things,
Satan,
Zion
In BYU Studies 15:1 (Autumn 1974): 3-28. A talk originally given on October 26, 1973, to the Pi Sigma Alpha society in the Political Science Department at BYU. Reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 2004): 279-305. An argument that political action is desirable, even in an imperfect world, …
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February 18, 1966 by •
ancient world,
Apollodorus,
Athens,
Augustus Caesar,
blackmail,
Christianity,
disciples,
education,
Egypt,
Greeks,
idleness,
imposing appendix,
John Chrysostom,
Palaemon,
pseudo-wisemen,
rhetoric,
Rome,
Seven Sages,
Socrates,
Sophists,
Symmachus,
teachers,
the University of Athens,
tyrant(s),
underachievement,
upper-class,
wisdom
BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley
March 3, 1964 by •
Abraham and the early Christian church,
Axial change Period of history (600 B.C.),
Boghaz-Keui Turkey,
Book of Mormon buried libraries,
Chenoboskian writings,
Christian(s) history,
Christian(s) library,
Coptic church,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
discoveries at Amarna Royal Archives,
Egyptian Egyptian-Christian Library,
Forty Days,
gnosis pre-Christian,
Greeks,
Hittite(s) records and annals,
Isaac,
Jacob,
Jesus Christ time of,
Jewish Library,
Jews,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the early Christian church,
libraries,
manuscript(s),
Martin Luther,
Nag Hammadi codices,
Odes of Solomon,
Palestine,
patternism,
Pearl of Great Price,
pre-mortal existence,
priesthood,
Prof. William Foxwell Albright,
Protestantism,
Pylos,
Ras Shamra,
redemption,
rediscovery,
Reformation,
restoration of all things,
resurrection,
Roman Catholicism,
sacrament,
shewbread,
temple(s) libraries,
the Church,
the Fall,
the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles,
Two Ways doctrine of the
The Early Christian Church in the Light of Some Newly Discovered Papyri from Egypt (Provo: BYU Extension Publications, 1964): 20 pp. An address delivered to the BYU Tri-Stake Fireside, March 3, 1964, which draws attention to the contents of some of the Coptic Nag Hammadi materials. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 [Right-click (cntrl-click for …
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