January 2, 1993 by •
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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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January 12, 1988 by •
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Rekhabite(s),
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the Law,
Title of Liberty,
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unbelief,
war,
weaknesses,
wilderness
CWHN 8:498-532 This article is based on a transcript of a talk given at the 1986 Sunstone Theological Symposium in Salt Lake City. It was published in Sunstone 12 (January 1988): 14—25.
January 2, 1980 by •
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Reuben Hedlock,
revelation(s),
Robert C. Webb,
Royal Society,
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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 •
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Shabako stone,
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Torah,
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view,
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(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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