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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

Temples Everywhere

December 2, 1970 by • Abraham, American Prophet, Avebury, Book of Mormon, cosmos, Eduard Meyer, Egyptian(s), Eric Hornung, Hopi, Hotevilla, Joseph Smith, ordinances, scholar(s), temple(s), Year-Rite

Address given on 4 December 1999 at BYU.

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

A House of Glory

February 2, 1967 by • angel(s), anointing, apostles, binding, binding link, celestial, chastity, consecrated, covenant(s), earth ends of, education, eternal, eternity, exaltation, faith, Father, feeling(s), fulness, Gentiles, house boat faith, house boat fasting, house boat glory, house boat God, house boat learning, House of Fasting, immortality, intelligence, Israel, Israel gathering of, Jacob, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Smith, judgment(s), Kirtland dedicatory prayer, Kirtland Temple, Lamanite(s), Last Days, learning House of, Manti, meeting place, order, pollution, power(s), prayer, prayer House of, repent, resurrection, righteous, rites of passage, salvation, sanctified, school, sealing, seek, self-discipline, Solemn Assembly, space, study, symbolic, Terrestrial, the Law of Consecration, the Law of God, the Law of sacrifice, the Law of the Gospel, The LORD, the Most High, time, training, tribulation, wisdom, world(s), worship, Zion

A House of Glory. In Temples of the Ancient World, edited by Donald W. Parry, 29–47. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1994.

Intre-Ancient Records

November 11, 1965 by • anthropologist, Aristotle, belief(s), Book of Mormon, Carl Popper, Charles Darwin, empirical, evidence, evolution, fact(s), God, Handsome Lake, hypothesis, hypothetical, imagination, induction, inspiration, interpretation, investigations, Iroquois, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, judgment(s), mistakes, observation, opinion(s), Paanchi, probabilities, records, revelation(s), scholar(s), science, scientific, scientist(s), spirit (and matter), test, testimony, The LORD, theories, truth

(See “Fact and Fancy in the Interpretation of Ancient Records”)

The Liahona’s Cousins

July 13, 1965 by • Alma, American Indians, Arab(s) scholar, arrow divination, belomancy, Bible, Book of Mormon, brass ball, compass, direction, director, divination, divinatory sticks, Ezekiel, faith, familiar, gifts of God, God, Indians American, Jaredites, Jesus Christ, Jewish custom, Joseph Smith, Lehi, Liahona, magic, magicians, miracle(s), miraculous power, Nephi, ordinary, pointers, power(s) of God, punctuation, revelation(s), round ball, shaking, shining stones, shooting, s_hamachul (arabic), T. Fahd, temporal, the critic(s), the Kaabeh, time of Ignorance, tossing, travelers, type and shadow, writing, zalam

The Improvement Era 64:2 (February 1961):87-89, 104-106, 108-111. An examination of the Liahona in the light of Arabic divination arrows. — Midgley

Rediscovery of the Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon

March 17, 1965 by • Abraham, Alma, ancient Israel practice, anti-gnostic, apocrypha, apocryphal works writings, Babylonian(s), Baruch, Bible, Book of Jubilees, Book of Mormon, buried up unto the Lord, Cain, Christian(s), Christianity, Coffin texts, Copper Scroll, Creation Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Demotic, devil(s), doctrine(s), Egypt, Egyptian(s), ephod of Cia, false teachers, filthy water, Gentiles, Gilgamish, God, Helaman, hidden book, hieratic, hieroglyphics, house boat Israel, images, iron rod, Isaac, Isaiah, Israel, Jacob, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Jewish Apocrypha, Jews, Joseph Smith, Judaism, King Benjamin, King(s) Benjamin, knowledge, Laban, Lehi, libraries, Lord Raglan, Manual of Discipline, metaphors, Nephi, newly discovered, Odes of Solomon, olive tree, Origins of Religion, Paanchi, path, Pharaoh, plan of redemption, plates, pre-existence, pride of the world, private libraries, prophet(s), reality, Reformed Egyptian, righteous, Satan, scripture(s), Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, star(s), testamentary literature, the Gospel of Philip, The LORD, The Pearl, the plan, the Redeemer, the two ways, the wicked, the Word of God, third dimension, treasures, wilderness, will of God, Wisdom of Solomon, writing, Zenos, [Egyptian] genealogical records

58 pp. d.s. typed transcript of a lecture given on March 17, 1965; CWHN 12:212-263. The imagery and practices found in the Book of Mormon are compared with certain phrases and material concerns found in Jewish and Christian apocryphal writings. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save …

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.

Howlers in the Book of Mormon

August 2, 1962 by • Asiatic(s), Book of Mormon, coronation, cultural patterns, Dead Sea Scrolls, elephants, Ether book of, Gold Plates, hanging, howlers, Jaredites, Joseph Smith, Joseph's garment, kingship, legendary consistency, Liahona, money, names proper, Nephites, Pyrophilus, revelation(s), ship(s), steel, stones shining, the Ark, tradition(s) vertical, Vertical, Vertical Judaism, white robe, Zohar

Millennial Star 125:2 (February 1963): 28-34; CWHN 8: 243-258. Nibley shows that a long list of mistakes presumably made by Joseph Smith may actually turn out to be, on closer inspection and with fuller understanding, vindications of its authenticity. — Midgley

How to Write an Anti-Mormon Book

February 17, 1962 by • alternative, Analiza Ann Eliza Young, Analiza Brigham Young, Analiza Young, Ann Eliza Young, anti-Mormon, argument, association, attack, bargain, Brigham Young, controversy, credentials, criminal charges, education, evidence, exploit, Fawn M. Brodie, folksy, geographical gap, homey, images, imposing appendix, intrigue, Irving Wallace, Joseph Smith, Mormon(s), Mormonism, mysteries, name-dropper, pictures, polemic, probabilities, purity, purity of motives, rhetoric, rules of advertising, scholar(s), schoolmen, sources, Stenhouse, thesis

Lecture II, February 17, 1962 in Seminar on the Prophet Joseph Smith (BYU Extension Publications, 1962): 30-41. This was reprinted (1964), pp. 31-42. Essentially a preview of Sounding Brass (1963). A long satirical list of informal rules commonly followed by those anxious to attack Mormon things. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for …