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One Eternal Round

January 2, 1998 by • Abraham, Acadia, Adam, Adam-Ondi-Ahman, Alexandria, Ancient of Days, apostasy, Aristotle, atonement, Avebury, Bible, Book of Ether, Book of Mormon, Book of Moses, Book of the Dead, Brigham Young, carnal, celestial, center drama, ceremonial centers, civilization, cosmos, devil(s), devilish, dungeons and dragons, Egypt, Egyptian, esoteric, Ether book of, exoteric, Faust, Freemasonry, gnosticism, God, Golden Age, Great Assembly Migrations, Great Assembly Pyramid, Greece, Greek philosophy, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetic, hermeticism, Hermetism, ignorance, Imhotep, intelligence, Iran, Israel, Joseph Smith, Kabbalah, Lord Raglan, Morris Kline, Moses, Moses book of, mysteries, mythical, Neo-Platonists, Nephi, Newton, Noah, One Eternal Round, Origen (early church father), philosophy, Plato, prehistoric, priesthood, prophet(s), Pythagoras, religion, revelation(s), rites, ritual, sacred place, Satan, science, Sefer Yetzirah, sensual, Silbury Hill, Sophists, soul(s), Stonehenge, temple(s), the Church, the Gospel, the Law of Moses, the Sacred Marriage, truth, unbelief, unrighteous dominion, wickedness, wise and wholesome laws, Zoroaster

CWHN 12:379-433

The Last Days, Then and Now

February 7, 1990 by • Abraham, Achsenzeit, Adam, apocalyptic, aporia, Axial change, Axial change crises, Axial change Period of history (600 B.C.), Axial change system, bloodshed, Book of Enoch, charity, Christian(s), civilization, cosmos, creation(s), David, devil(s), dispensation(s), earth, Egypt, Egyptian, Enoch, evolution, extermination periods, Ezra, fear, gangs, Gardiner, Genesis, God, Heracleitus, Hezekiah, humanity, imago mundi, Jan Assmann, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Smith, Josiah, Karl Jaspers, kingship, knowledge, Laman, Last Dispensation, Lehi, Lemuel, literature, love, mercy, Messiah, Moses, Neo-catastrophism, Nephi, Noah, Paradise, Pearl of Great Price, Plan of Progression, Plato, pre-existence, priesthood, prophet(s), proving ground, purpose, quantum leap, Real World, repent, repentance, scripture(s), secret combinations, single creation theory, Solomon, Soren Kierkegaard, the Flood, the Gospel plan, The LORD, the Savior, theoria, time, tremble, turning point, upheavals, violence, war, Watchers, wickedness, world(s), Zarahemla, Zion

(Nov. 8, 1996, for Richard L. Anderson Festschrift)

Work We Must, but the Lunch is Free

April 21, 1986 by • Abraham, Adam, Analiza Brigham Young, astronomy, beggar, biological system, biology, bounty, Brigham Young, children, Darwin, dependence, earth, earthly possessions, equality, evolution, free gift, free lunch, gift, God, God's gifts, humanity, idler, Israel, Jehovah, King Benjamin, King(s) Benjamin, kingdom(s) of God, knowledge, labor, life, lunch, lunches, lunching, mammon, manna, materialism, money, Mosaic Law, Moses, need, peaceably, private property, probation, Promised Land, random, righteousness, science, sin, spiritual gifts, survival, temporal gifts, tests, the Law, The LORD, the world

CWHN 9:202-251

In the Party, But Not of the Party

January 2, 1982 by • Abraham, apostles, Caesar, Caliphs, Catholic(s), Centurion, Christian(s), churchmen, Claudius, Constantine (Emperor), economy, Egypt, Emperor, Enoch, eternal, Father, Felix, Festus, Gentiles, God, Herod Agrippa, High Priest, Holy Ghost, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, John Chrysostom, Joseph Smith, Khan(s), King(s), Latter-day Saints, love, magistrates, ministers, missionary, Mormonism, Moses, party, Paul the Apostle, Pharaoh, polis, political, politics, Popes, prophet(s), Protestant(s), restoration, Romans, Rome, Satan, Sicarii, temporal, the Church, the Gospel, the Law, The LORD, the press, the Prince of this World, the Savior, Western World, world(s)

22 pp., typed manuscript for an Academics Lecture given on June 3, 1976 at BYU on politics; CWHN 13:105-137. An examination of how the Saints should understand involvement in politics, among other things drawing upon the examples of Paul and Daniel. — Midgley

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

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

Patriarchy and Matriarchy

June 2, 1965 by • Abraham, Adam, Agamemnon, Akish, angel(s), apostasy, archetypal, ashamed, bridal chamber, Cain, careerism, celestial order, Christian(s) literature, corruption, creation(s) drama(s), daughter of Jared, different natures, disobedience, Egypt, Egyptian, enmity, Enoch, envy, Eve, family, Iliad, Jared, jealousy, Jesus Christ, knowledge, labor, Lamech, light, Maat, Macbeth, marriage, matriarchy, Moses, Mother Earth, Mother of the Living, Nimrod, Odysseus, patriarchal, patriarchy, Penelope, Pharaoh, power(s), Prometheus, Sarah, Satan, Shakespeare, sorrow, temptation(s), the Bridegroom, the Flood, the Gospel, The LORD, The Pearl, Troy, Watchers, Zeus

Address given at annual women’s conference at BYU on 1 Febrary 1980. CWHN 1:87-114

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