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Not to Worry

January 2, 1978 by • adversary, anti-Mormon literature, Bible scholars, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, debate, debating, devil(s), disputation, divine origin, Eduard Meyer, existence, God, Greek, Hebrew(s), Higher Critic, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, literary critic, Mormonism, murmuring, New Education Testament, religion, resurrection, scholar(s), scholarship, schoolmen, Soren Kierkegaard, testimony, the Church, the critic(s), the Higher critic(s), The Terrible Questions, vanity

in Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars, edited by Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996): 139-154. Reprinted from a talk given October 31, 1994

Genesis of the Written Word

January 2, 1977 by • Abraham, alphabet, ancient, apocryphal works, Babylonia, Book of Mormon, Books, Canonicity, Chinese, cosmic, creation(s), cryptogram, Daybooks, Demotic, dispensation(s), Egypt, Egyptian, Enoch, eternity, evolution, evolutionary, evolutionary hypothesis, future, God, heaven and earth, heavenly book, Heavenly Scribe, Hebrew(s), Hermetic, hieratic, hieroglyphics, Hittite(s), Holy books, hostile, house boat Life, Imhotep, inscriptions, Jaredites, Joseph Smith, libraries, memoranda books, Menes, Mesopotamia, miracle of writing, Moses, Nephites, past, Pearl of Great Price, Pharaoh, pictographs, picture writing, power(s), primordial book, prophet(s), proto-Elamitic, proto-Indian, records, resurrection, sacred book, scripture(s), Semitic, Sent One(s), Seshat, Shabako stone, synthesize, the Book of the Foundation of Temples, theories, tools, Torah, uniformitarianism, universe, universities, unknown, view, vizier of King Zoser, writing miracle of, written language, written record(s)

(Provo: BYU Press, 1973). This was the Commissioner’s Lecture delivered in 1972. Later reprinted (without the complete footnotes) in The New Era 3:9 (September 1973): 38-50; reprinted again in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 101-127; CWHN 12: 450-490. An examination of writing as a gift from God and …

New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study

January 2, 1977 by • Abyssinia, ancient parallels, Anointed One, apocrypha, Arab(s), Assumption of Moses, authenticity, authenticity doubtful, authenticity positive, authenticity possible, Babylon, Bedouin(s), believer, Bible, Book of Jubilees, Book of Mormon, brass, bronze, castles, Catholic(s), China, Christian(s), circumstantial, commentary, complexity, critical examination, criticism, D. W. Thomas, Dead Sea Scrolls, death, deceit, deceiver, discovery, divine power, document discoveries, doubtful authenticity, Eden, Egyptian, Egyptian names, elephants, English, Etruscan, Euphrates, evidence, Ezekiel, forgery, fraud, Friedrich Blass, garden of Eden, Ghumdan, gigunu, God, Godhead, gods, grave, ha-eretz, Hamlet, Hebrew(s), Hebrew(s) Bible, Hem, hermeneutics, hiding up, Hittite(s), hochtempel, Hymn of Thanksgiving, Indo-European, Ishmael, Israel, Israelites, Jacob, Jaredites, Jarmo, Jehoiachim, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph (sold into Egypt), Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Judaeans, Koran, Lachish, Land of Eden, language(s), Lehi, Lehi in the Desert, liberty, limited vocabulary, Manti, Manual of Discipline, Master of Justice, Medieval, Metallic format, Mimmation, Mohammed, Moroni, Moses, Nephi, New Education Testament, New Education World, Noah, nunnation, Old Testament, Old World, Paanchi, philology, plausible story, poet(s) Arab, proof, Pyramid, revelation(s), scholar(s), scholarship, scripture(s), sealed up, Seals of Babylonia, Shakespeare, temples of passage, testimony, the critic(s), the Scrolls, tieftempel, Tigris, Tower of Babel, tower temples, Turamian, Ur-Abraham, Ur-Genesis, weights and measures, witnesses, writing, Zedekiah, Ziggurat

a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953, 1954; CWHN 8:54-126

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

More Brigham Young on Education

March 11, 1976 by • accumulation, Brigham Young, character, computers, customs and fashions, degree, Dialogue, discipline, economy, education, eternal progression, eternity, experience, false doctrine, false ideas, fashion(s), glory of God, god of this world, Holy Spirit, honest heart, ignorance, intelligence, Joseph Smith, kingdom(s), kitsch, knowledge, ladder, learning, light, mediocre, message, moral(s) quality, perishable objects, practical knowledge, principles, real work, revelation(s), rhetoric, riches, security, sensibility, Shakespeare, success, talents, taste, teaching, the Gospel, the mind, the Spirit, truth, vision, wisdom, work

Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo: BYU Press, 1976): 2-20. A talk given on March 11, 1976 at the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University; CWHN 13: 346-379. 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.

A Strange Thing in the Land

March 27, 1975 by • Abraham, Abyssinia, Adam, angel(s), Apocalypse of Adam, apocalyptic, apocrypha, Bible, Bodleian Library, Book of Adam, Book of Enoch, Book of Jeu, Book of Mormon, celestial law, Christian(s), City of Enoch, cosmology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, God, Greek Enoch, heavenly tablets, James Bruce, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Jude, literature, Mahijah, Mahujah, Methusaleh, Moses, New Education Testament, Noah, Oannes, of Moses, Old Testament, Origen (early church father), Parley P. Pratt, Pearl of Great Price, Prophecy of Enoch, R. H. Charles, Revelation, Richard Laurence, sacred writing, Satan, scholar(s), Slavonic Enoch, The LORD, Watchers, wickedness, Zion

“‘A Strange Thing in the Land’: The Return of the Book of Enoch,” a series of articles in Ensign; CWHN 2:91-301

We Will Still Weep for Zion

January 2, 1975 by • affluence, Analiza Brigham Young, Babylon, Brigham Young, business, celestial law, consecrate, corrupt, Covenant People, covenant(s), covetousness, dishonest men, economy, environment, equal, eternity, evil, faithfulness, Far West, gain, generosity, Gentiles, God, Heber C. Kimball, idolatry, independence, integrity, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, land, Lord's, luxuries, money, Nauvoo, obedient, pride, property, repent, revelation(s), riches, sacrifice, Satan, self-justification, selfishness, Sophistry, speculation, test, the Church, the Gospel, the Law of Consecration, The LORD, the Prophet, the Saints, transgression, Two Ways, United Order, wisdom, world(s), Zion

CWHN 9:341-377

Nibley the Scholar

May 21, 1974 by • Book of Mormon, dispensation(s), drama, education, eschatology, eternity, existence, expanding mind, falsehoods, Heavenly Father, Hugh Nibley, ideologies, Joseph Smith, patterns, Perspective, pre-existence, pride, protology, religious hobbies, revelation(s), self-knowledge, Shakespeare, temple(s), testimony, the Church leadership, the Gospel, time, vanity

13 pp., typed transcript of a BYU Forum Assembly in which Nibley was interviewed by Louis Midgley, May 21, 1974

Getting Ready to Being, an Editorial

September 2, 1972 by • boat, Book of Abraham, Book of Breathings, Book of the Dead, classical sources, Dee Jay Nelson, Dr. Budge, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian sources, facsimiles, Fall of the Book of Abraham, funerary literature, Grant S. Heward, Horus, Jewish sources, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Joseph Smith Papyri, LDS papyrus, papyrus, papyrus of Ani, Pearl of Great Price, R. Anthes, sacred bark, spells, translation

BYU Studies 9:3 (Autumn 1968): 245-254. A contribution to the continuing debate over the Joseph Smith Papyri and the historical authenticity of the Book of Abraham. — Midgley

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