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Abraham

18 p. unpublished typescript. Lecture at the LDS Institute, Utah Valley State College, on June 14, 1995.

Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham

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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The Last Days, Then and Now

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

A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price

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

Enoch the Prophet

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

Genesis of the Written Word

(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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A Strange Thing in the Land

“‘A Strange Thing in the Land’: The Return of the Book of Enoch,” a series of articles in Ensign; CWHN 2:91-301

Getting Ready to Being, an Editorial

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

Pearl of Great Price Papyrus Acquisition (Pearl of Great Price Papyri, 14 March 1967)

15 pp., transcript of a talk given on March 14, 1967

Fragment Found in Salt Lake City

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

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