Archive: "Egypt" Tag
January 2, 1982 by •
Abraham,
apostles,
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Sicarii,
temporal,
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the press,
the Prince of this World,
the Savior,
Western World,
world(s)
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
March 2, 1981 by •
Akhabar,
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Babylonia,
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Egypt,
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R. A. Starkey,
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the Prophets,
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visionary,
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writing,
Yahu,
Yaush,
Zedekiah
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,
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Deseret News,
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Eduard Meyer,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian(s),
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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
January 2, 1977 by •
Abraham,
alphabet,
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apocryphal works,
Babylonia,
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Canonicity,
Chinese,
cosmic,
creation(s),
cryptogram,
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dispensation(s),
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Enoch,
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future,
God,
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hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
Hittite(s),
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house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
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Joseph Smith,
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Menes,
Mesopotamia,
miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
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picture writing,
power(s),
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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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
July 2, 1975 by •
baptism,
bishop(s),
center,
center drama,
Christian(s),
Christian(s) church,
Christianity,
corrupt,
creation(s) drama(s),
Cyril,
earth,
Egypt,
Elijah,
fourth century,
Gentile rites,
God,
heaven,
Holy Sepulcher,
interpretation,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish rites,
Jews,
Kaaba,
Mormon(s),
Moslem(s),
motif,
mythology,
Nimrod,
North Star,
of the earth,
Old Law,
ordinances,
Osiris,
pagan(s),
Patrologiae,
place of contact,
Plan of Salvation,
Primitive Church,
religious ritual,
rites,
Salt Lake Temple,
salvation,
sanctuary,
scholar(s),
secrecy,
symbolic,
synagogue,
Talmud,
Temple,
temple(s),
temple(s) rites,
the Church,
the Initiation,
three levels,
tradition(s),
universe,
usurper,
Year drama,
Ziggurat
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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January 2, 1969 by •
Abraham,
anti-Christ,
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
baptism,
Cain,
Catholic(s),
central lack of authority,
Christian(s) church,
Christian(s) Early,
Christian(s) philosophers,
Clement,
Clementine Recognitions,
Constantine,
Consubstantial",
Council of Nicea,
dispensation(s),
doctrinal vacuum,
doctrine,
doctrine(s),
Early Christian philosophers,
Egypt,
Emperor,
Eusebius,
evolution,
falsified,
forged,
fulfillment,
Gnostics,
God,
Great Assembly Gap,
Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity,
Ignatius,
Israel,
James the Just,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Justinian,
manuscript(s),
nation(s),
New Education Testament,
Noah,
Origen (early church father),
Paul,
Peter,
philosophers,
philosophy,
prediction,
Pseudo-Gospels,
rejected,
repentance,
scholar(s),
scripture(s),
Secrets of the Kingdom,
servants,
Socrates,
St. Augustine,
teaching,
Tertullian,
the Church Fathers,
The LORD,
the Primitive Church,
tribe(s),
Two Ways
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
March 20, 1968 by •
Abraham,
Abraham literature,
Book of Abraham,
Book of Mormon,
Book of the Dead,
cosmological,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian papyri,
Egyptologists,
Enoch,
facsimiles,
Idrisi,
Joseph Smith,
Kirtland,
Mormon(s),
Osiris,
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
scholar(s),
Sen-Sen fragment,
Stone of Righteousness,
symbols,
the critic(s),
Urim and Thummim
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
February 18, 1966 by •
ancient world,
Apollodorus,
Athens,
Augustus Caesar,
blackmail,
Christianity,
disciples,
education,
Egypt,
Greeks,
idleness,
imposing appendix,
John Chrysostom,
Palaemon,
pseudo-wisemen,
rhetoric,
Rome,
Seven Sages,
Socrates,
Sophists,
Symmachus,
teachers,
the University of Athens,
tyrant(s),
underachievement,
upper-class,
wisdom
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
June 2, 1965 by •
Abraham,
Adam,
Agamemnon,
Akish,
angel(s),
apostasy,
archetypal,
ashamed,
bridal chamber,
Cain,
careerism,
celestial order,
Christian(s) literature,
corruption,
creation(s) drama(s),
daughter of Jared,
different natures,
disobedience,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
enmity,
Enoch,
envy,
Eve,
family,
Iliad,
Jared,
jealousy,
Jesus Christ,
knowledge,
labor,
Lamech,
light,
Maat,
Macbeth,
marriage,
matriarchy,
Moses,
Mother Earth,
Mother of the Living,
Nimrod,
Odysseus,
patriarchal,
patriarchy,
Penelope,
Pharaoh,
power(s),
Prometheus,
Sarah,
Satan,
Shakespeare,
sorrow,
temptation(s),
the Bridegroom,
the Flood,
the Gospel,
The LORD,
The Pearl,
Troy,
Watchers,
Zeus
Address given at annual women’s conference at BYU on 1 Febrary 1980. CWHN 1:87-114