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The Stick of Judah

July 2, 1960 by • Bible, Book of Mormon, covenant(s), Ephraim, Ezekiel, Gentiles, God, Hebrew(s), Israel, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Smith, Judah, Lord Jehovah, Mohammed, New Education Testament, Old Testament, resurrection, scholar(s), scrolls, shevet, shivite, stick of Joseph, stick of Judah, sticks, wood, writing

a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953; CWHN 8:1-48. An examination of the meaning of Ezekiel 37 in the light of the use of tally sticks. — Midgley

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.

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

The Lesson of the Sixth Century B.C.

March 20, 1956 by • antiquities, apocalyptic vision, Aristotle, Athenians, Book of Mormon, colonizer, contemplation, Cresus, Cyrus the Great, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian culture, Greek, Greek studies, history, Jerusalem, Joseph Smith, Laman, leadership, Lehi, Mediterranean, merchants, Near East, Nephi, Palestine, Phalees, Phoenician, prayer, repentance, Roman emperor studies, Semitic merchants, sixth century, Solon, the Nile, Travelian

Devotional given March 20, 1956. 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.

On the Pearl of Great Price

January 2, 1952 by • Abraham, altar, ancient documents, angel(s) of the Lord, Anubis, archaeologist(s), Babylonia, bedstead, Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, Brested, Chaldean(s), Chaldees, crocodile, Dead Sea Scrolls, Deveria, Eduard Meyer, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian drawings, Egyptian papyrus, Egyptologists, engraver, ephod, explanations, Facsimile No. 1, Facsimile No. 2, Facsimile No. 3, facsimiles, figures, fraudulent, funerary, God, gods, hand-picked experts, hawk, Hebrew(s), hieroglyphs, human beginnings sacrifice(s), hypocephali, idolatrous gods, influence, interpretation, Jews, Joseph Smith, Korash, Libnah, lion couch, lotus, Lucy Mack Smith, Mace, Mahmackrah, Mercer, Mesopotamia, Mormon(s), mummies, Nefertum, Nimrod, of the Spirit, original texts, Osiris, Pearl of Great Price, Peters, Petrie, Pharaoh, prejudice(d), Professor, representations, reproductions, Reuben Hedlock, Rev. F. S. Spaulding, revelation(s), sacred crocodile, Sais, Satan, scepter, scholar(s), Serik, Sobec, sword, symbolic drawings, Syria, the critic(s), the four directions, theory, translator, Ur, Urim and Thummim, Vigal, von Bissing, Wepwawet

34 pp., typed transcript of a lecture given on May 13, 1965

Sounding Brass

January 2, 1949 by • Analiza Brigham Young, anti-Mormon, Brigham Young, Fawn M. Brodie, gossip, Gregg Thomas Larson, John H. Beadle, Joseph Smith, Mrs. A. E., Stenhouse Mrs., tales

(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963): 249 pp.; CWHN 11:407-727. This book carries the subtitle “Informal Studies in the Lucrative Art of Telling Stories About Brigham Young and the Mormons” and is a response to Irving Wallace’s The Twenty-seventh Wife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961). A few historians have been annoyed because Nibley pointed out …

No Ma’am, That’s Not History

January 1, 1946 by • atheism, Bible, Book of Mormon, dream(s), Eduard Meyer, Egyptian texts, Egyptian(s), Eight Witnesses, evolution, evolutionary scheme, Fawn M. Brodie, First Vision, Gold Plates, identical anecdotes, imposter, insinuation, Joseph Smith, King James Bible, kingdom(s), law of parsimony, Mormon(s), Mormonism, original religion, parallels, persecution, plausible, power(s), preconceived ideas, prejudice(d), Rev. Character Caswell, revealed religion, revelation(s), stable doctrine, temple(s) rites, Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen, Walters, witnesses

No Ma’am, That’s Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie’s Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946): 62 pp.; CWHN 11:1. Subsequently reissued without changes at various times. This is a short, witty reply to Fawn M. Brodie’s No Man Knows My History (New York: Knopf, 1945; …

Peter

January 1, 1900 by • Abraham, Acts of Paul -- false, anti-Christ, apocalyptic literature, apocrypha, apostles, biblical scholars, Catholic(s), Cepheous, Christian(s), Christian(s) literature, Christianity, Clement, Clementine Recognitions, Dead Sea Scrolls, devil(s), dispensation(s), Egypt, Elder, Elias, eschatology, evil, false priesthood, God, Holy prophets, James, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, John, Joseph Smith, knowledge, Last Dispensation, Nag Hammadi Library, New Education Testament, Paul, Peter, Pharaoh, pharaohs of Egypt, pillars of the Church, priesthood, prophet(s), Protestant(s), restitution of all things, restoration time of, resurrection, Satan, Simon Magus, the Church, the Gospel, the keys, The LORD, the plan, true kingdom, true prophet, truth

Prayer, Devotional Assembly

January 1, 1900 by • fragmentary knowledge, Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith, kingdom(s) things of the, knowledge, leaky memories, prayer, the Gospel, unreliable memories