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In the Party, But Not of the Party

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

Souvenirs from Lehi’s Jerusalem

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

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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The Idea of the Temple in History

Millennial Star 120:8 (August 1958):228-237, 247-249. Reprinted as What Is a Temple? The Idea of the Temple in History (1963 and 1968); and under the title “What is a Temple?” in The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, ed. by Truman G. Madsen (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1984), 19-37; and in CWHN 4: …

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Questions on Authority

23 pp., mimeographed class handout, ca.1952. A compendium of passages from the New Testament, the early fathers of the Church, and from historians of Christian antiquity on the question of the apostasy. — Midgley

Phase One

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3:2 (Summer 1968): 99-105. This essay concerns the debate over the Joseph Smith Papyri and the bulk of the number contains materials on this issue. — Midgley

How to Have a Quiet Campus, Antique Style

BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley

Patriarchy and Matriarchy

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

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