January 2, 1977 by •
Abraham,
alphabet,
ancient,
apocryphal works,
Babylonia,
Book of Mormon,
Books,
Canonicity,
Chinese,
cosmic,
creation(s),
cryptogram,
Daybooks,
Demotic,
dispensation(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
eternity,
evolution,
evolutionary,
evolutionary hypothesis,
future,
God,
heaven and earth,
heavenly book,
Heavenly Scribe,
Hebrew(s),
Hermetic,
hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
Hittite(s),
Holy books,
hostile,
house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
Jaredites,
Joseph Smith,
libraries,
memoranda books,
Menes,
Mesopotamia,
miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
pictographs,
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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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