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The Way of the Church: Controlling the Past

February 1, 1988 by • Apostolic Church, Arab(s), ben Chaiyim, Bible, Catholic(s), censorship, Christian(s) church, churchmen, Constantine, control, darkness, deception, destruction of documents, documents, emendation, Eusebius, evidence, evolution, Ezekiel, fact(s), fair deception, falsification, fiction, follies of translation, forgery, George Orwell, God, Greek, historian(s), history, idioms, illusion, interpreting, Jerome, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jews, kale apate, knowledge, Koran, language(s), lie, lying, Masoretic text, Middle Ages, New Education Testament, Odes of Solomon, opinion(s), Origen (early church father), Patrologiae, Protestant(s), Roman emperor church, Romans, rule of, salvation, scholar(s), scholarship, scientific, scripture(s), selecting, Septuagint, shortcuts, substitution, the ancients, the Church history, translations, translator, unfavorable, Unquenchable Light, Vatican excavations Library, writing

a series of articles in three parts in The Improvement Era. This series was to have been continued, but was actually abandoned. The materials were eventually used in “The Passing of the Church,” Church History 30: 2 (June 1961): 131-154; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001): 1-32; and in BYU Studies 16:1 …

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.

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

Islam and Mormonism: A Comparison

February 25, 1969 by • ancient world, antiquities, Bible, Book of Mormon, Christianity, Eduard Meyer, God, investigations, Islam, Joseph Smith and Judaism, Koran, miracle(s), Mohammed, Mormon(s), Mormonism, Moslem(s), Plan of Salvation, prophet(s), religion, religion revealed, Satan, Three Witnesses, Word of Wisdom

The Ensign 2:3 (March 1972): 55-64. Not all of the footnotes containing the citations for the supporting texts and explanations were published with this essay. — Midgley