3 pp., s.s., typed transcript of a lecture given on March 19, 1964 Listening to Mr. Huff is like listening to Casals play the Bach Unaccompanied on the cello. So I’ll give you a bar of “Chopsticks,” and then we can get back to Hoffer. Now, what he said is entirely in line with what …
18 p. unpublished typescript. Lecture at the LDS Institute, Utah Valley State College, on June 14, 1995.
1 page typescript, Provo, Ut., May 7, 1986 May 7, 1986 I moved to Utah from California many years ago expressly because I had found the last authentic habitable wilderness in the temperate zone, i.e. in the entire world within reach of pleasant dwelling-places. The rest of the world has already become overrun or uninhabitable …
THE RUINS – Who can account for them? Answer: Nobody! The elementary questions remain unanswered. At every step students confess their helplessness before a complete MYSTERY.
(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 …
I. The Jewish Doctors: From Philo to Plotinus the Jewish teachers steadily deeschatologized and de-literalized the Scriptures. (N. Bentwich, Jewish Quarterly Review 4:1-21). “…the initiative in the attempt to stamp out orthodox Judaism and to hellenize the Jews was not taken by Antiochus, but by the influential body of hellenistic Jews.” (Oesterley, Apoc., 29). The …
Salt Lake Tribune (Sunday, November 25, 1973): 2G. This was a reply to a “Common Carrier” article by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, in the Salt Lake Tribune (November 11, 1973): 6B. Nibley focuses on the debate over the Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri. — Midgley First of all let me make perfectly …
“Secrets of the Scriptures — The Creation,” 29 pp., typed transcript of a talk given in Glendale, California in 1969. One of the best examples of Nibley’s use of ancient apocryphal writings. The talk was also unusual in that he expressed gratitude that it was being recorded. Brothers and Sisters, I am actually glad that …
a typed transcript of a talk given at a Long Beach, California, Seminar graduation, late in 1967; 27 pp. s.s.; 44 pp. d.s. Also circulated as “Teachings from the Dead Sea Scrolls.” A survey of teachings in a large number of apocryphal, pseudepigraphal and patristic writings. — Midgley The Status of Apocalyptic Oseterley: “Apocalyptic Literature” …
excerpts from E. L. Cherbonnier, “The Logic of Biblical Anthropomorphism,” in Harvard Theological Review IV (1962): 187-206. 187: “By anthropomorphism I mean any theology that conceives of God in terms of those characteristics which are distinctly human ….” “The prophets do not charge the pagan deities with being anthropomorphic, but with being insufficiently anthropomorphic. At …