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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 …

Looking Backward

January 2, 1985 by • British actio, C. G. Jung, C. P. Thiele, ceremonial centers, Christian(s), culture(s), Druids, Egypt, evolution, governments, Holy center, Israel, Jacob Grimm, Jerusalem, Jews, libraries, London Temple, M. Eliade, Max Mueller, megalithic complexes and rings, Moslem(s), mounds, myth(s), philology, poema, prehistoric, religion, religious belief, rites, ritual, sacred, sacred place, scholar(s), secular, stone circle, Temple of Juno Moneta, temple(s), temple(s) London, temple(s) of Juno Moneta, temple(s) records, the Law, Theodor Gaster, Year drama Rite(s)

Looking Backward. In The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, edited by Truman G. Madsen, 39–51. Provo, UT: RSC, 1984.

The Unsolved Loyalty Problem

February 1, 1981 by • Agathias, angel(s), aristocracy, Asia, Attila, Augustine, barbarians, Christian(s), Christianity, churchmen, civilized man, conformity, Constantine, culture(s), demands, devil(s), East and West, education, Emperor, Empire, fourth century A.D., free men, freedom, God, Greece, Greek, internal decay, Jesus Christ, Khan(s), landowners, loyalty, opposition, oversimplification, pagan(s), panegyrics, Persia, persuasion, polarized loyalties, Priscus, rhetoric, Romanitas, Romans, Rome, scholar(s), Scythians, society, super-weapon, the Church, the Faith, the nobles, Two Worlds, Vandals, Western civilization

Western Political Quarterly 6:4 (1953):631-657; CWHN 10:195. An examination of the problem of loyalty in the 4th century, with obvious significance for our own time. — Midgley

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.

A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price

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

Writing and Publication in Graduate School

June 27, 1979 by • accuracy, appointment, authentic, completeness, evidence, excellence, excitement, exploration, explore, graduate school, information, integrity, interest, interpretation, language(s), meticulous, opinion(s), original, patient, polemic religious, prestige schools, production results, publication, publish, read, religious polemic, research, scholar(s), scholarly writing, school, scientific interest, significant, vested interest, writing

(Provo: Mimeographed by the BYU Graduate School, 1966), 11 pp. An address on the rudiments of scholarship given on May 12, 1965 to the BYU History Department Honors Banquet. Presented in the form of a series of answers to hypothetical questions. — Midgley Q. Why is such overwhelming stress laid on publication at the so-called …

Portland Institute Symposium

January 1, 1979 by • Analiza Brigham Young, ancient documents, ancient world, angel(s), attack, Bible, big book, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, C. S. Lewis, consistent, copyists, Eduard Meyer, external evidence, faking, first edition, forgery, Friedrich Blass, Gary Willis, ignorance, inspired, internal evidence, Joseph Smith, Mormon(s), most correct book, Mrs. Brodie, Portland [Oregon], Prof. Bresnich, quality, revealed, revelation(s), scholar(s), test, the critic(s), The LORD, tolken, Walter Scott, [Thomas] Jefferson

Symposium held in Portland, Oregon in 1979.

Not to Worry

January 2, 1978 by • adversary, anti-Mormon literature, Bible scholars, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, debate, debating, devil(s), disputation, divine origin, Eduard Meyer, existence, God, Greek, Hebrew(s), Higher Critic, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, literary critic, Mormonism, murmuring, New Education Testament, religion, resurrection, scholar(s), scholarship, schoolmen, Soren Kierkegaard, testimony, the Church, the critic(s), the Higher critic(s), The Terrible Questions, vanity

in Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars, edited by Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996): 139-154. Reprinted from a talk given October 31, 1994

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

It Takes All Kinds

January 1, 1977 by • Abraham, Abram, approaches, Bakhtan, Bakhtan Stele, Bentresh, Book of Abraham, Book of Breathings, Book of the Dead, Chonsu of Thebes, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar, Egyptologists, Egyptology, facsimiles, idol(s), Ishtar of Nineveh, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Papyri, Kirtland, Mormon(s), Naharina, Nimrod, Pharaoh, priesthood, scholar(s), the critic(s), Ur of the Chaldees

BYU Harold B. Lee Library