June 14, 1995 by •
Abraham,
Adam,
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Book of Mormon,
Book of Moses,
Canaan,
Creator,
cycle,
dispensation(s),
Enoch,
extermination,
God,
Hagar,
Haran (father of Abraham),
High Priest,
idol(s),
Isaac,
Joseph Smith,
Joseph Smith Jr.,
Lot,
migration(s),
Noah,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
Procrustean device,
righteousness,
Sarah,
Sefer ha-Yashar,
seven ages of man,
Sodom and Gomorrah,
the Gospel,
The LORD,
the needy,
the poor,
wealth
18 p. unpublished typescript. Lecture at the LDS Institute, Utah Valley State College, on June 14, 1995.
January 2, 1993 by •
Abraham Book of,
angel,
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Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
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facsimiles,
God,
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James E. Talmage,
Joseph Smith,
Joseph Smith Kircher,
learn,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Mormon(s),
Mormon(s) scholarship,
mummies,
Pearl of Great Price,
schoolmen,
the Church,
the schoolman
BYU Studies 8:2 (Winter 1968): 171-178. On November 27, 1967 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City made available to the Church certain papyri fragments that had once been in the possession of Joseph Smith. These generated considerable interest and also much controversy over the Book of Abraham and what came to be …
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January 2, 1980 by •
A. H. Gardiner,
A. H. Sayce,
Abraham,
Anthon Transcript,
authenticity,
B. H. Roberts,
Berlin dictionary,
Bible,
Book of Abraham,
book of Jarom,
Book of Mormon,
Breasted,
Brigham Young,
Christianity,
criticism,
Deseret News,
Deveria,
Eduard Meyer,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian(s),
Egyptologists,
Egyptology,
evidence,
facsimiles,
fragment(s),
Franklin S. Spalding,
fraud,
God,
Hebrew(s),
hieroglyphics,
hypocephali,
hypocephalus,
ignorance,
interpretation,
J. M. Sjodahl,
Joseph Smith,
Latter-day Saints,
learned doctors,
linguistic,
Lythgoe,
manuscript(s),
Mormon(s),
mummies,
opinion(s),
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
Peters,
Petrie,
Pharaoh,
prophet(s),
Ramesseum Dramatic Text,
Reuben Hedlock,
revelation(s),
Robert C. Webb,
Royal Society,
S. A. B. Mercer,
scholar(s),
scholarship,
text(s),
the characters,
the critic(s),
Thebes,
translation,
translator,
truth,
Urim and Thummim,
writings
a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1968-1970. The following three chapters, “Setting the Stage– The World of Abraham,” “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” and “The Sacrifice of Sarah,” have been reprinted in CWHN 14:163-218, 319-381
November 23, 1979 by •
angel(s) adversarial,
apocalyptic writings,
Apocryphon of John,
Bible,
Book of Enoch,
corruption,
cruelty,
Daughters of Men,
depravity,
earth corruption of,
earthquakes,
Enoch,
Enoch Son of Jared,
evil,
fallen angels,
God,
God charity of,
God wisdom of,
heavenly order exploitation of,
Holy One,
Joseph Smith Jr. and Enoch,
mercy,
Noah,
oaths,
ordinances changed,
Pearl of Great Price,
priestcraft(s),
priesthood false,
Satan and Enoch,
Semiazas,
Seth,
shame,
Sons of Heaven,
Syriac Apocalypse of Paul,
the Flood,
The LORD,
theodicy,
violence,
Watchers,
Zohar
in Pearl of Great Price Symposium, held at Brigham Young University on November 22, 1975: 76-85, 93-96. Reprinted in CWHN 2:1-18
January 2, 1977 by •
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Egyptian,
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evolutionary hypothesis,
future,
God,
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hieroglyphics,
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house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
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Joseph Smith,
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memoranda books,
Menes,
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miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
pictographs,
picture writing,
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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 …
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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
January 2, 1972 by •
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hieroglyphic Egyptian,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the Book of Abraham,
Khons,
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
pictures symbolic,
symbolic pictures,
the Church Historian's Office,
Trinity,
Wisdom Literature
BYU Studies 8:2 (Winter 1968): 191-194. Reflections on the recovery of the Joseph Smith Papyri from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. — Midgley