December 21, 2003 by •
apocalyptic nightmares,
forewarned,
Jaredites,
Jews,
mandate,
military,
peace,
perish,
renounce war,
salvation,
seek diligently,
sword,
victory,
war,
warned
an anti-war letter of March 26
January 12, 1988 by •
Abraham,
Alma,
America,
apocalyptic,
Book of Mormon,
Captain Moroni,
charity,
crime,
Cumorah,
cursing and blessing,
desert,
destruction,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
evil,
freedom,
Gadianton(s) robbers,
gain,
Gentiles,
God,
history,
Indians American,
inequality,
iniquity,
Jacob,
Jaredites,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Joseph Smith,
judges,
judgment(s),
King Mosiah,
Laman,
Lamanite(s),
Lehi,
liberty,
money,
Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet),
Moroni,
Nephi,
Nephites,
New Education World,
Old World,
popularity,
power(s),
pride,
priestcraft(s),
probation,
rebellion,
Rekhabite(s),
repent,
repentance,
riches,
righteous,
righteous society,
righteousness,
robbers,
Satan,
secret abominations,
sin,
the Gospel,
the Law,
Title of Liberty,
transgression,
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.
July 13, 1980 by •
archaeology,
collapse of civilization,
Hopi,
Inca,
iniquity followers of,
Jaredites,
Maya,
Nephites,
Nephites people before,
Olmecs,
Quetzalcoatl,
ruins
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.
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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July 13, 1965 by •
Alma,
American Indians,
Arab(s) scholar,
arrow divination,
belomancy,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
brass ball,
compass,
direction,
director,
divination,
divinatory sticks,
Ezekiel,
faith,
familiar,
gifts of God,
God,
Indians American,
Jaredites,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish custom,
Joseph Smith,
Lehi,
Liahona,
magic,
magicians,
miracle(s),
miraculous power,
Nephi,
ordinary,
pointers,
power(s) of God,
punctuation,
revelation(s),
round ball,
shaking,
shining stones,
shooting,
s_hamachul (arabic),
T. Fahd,
temporal,
the critic(s),
the Kaabeh,
time of Ignorance,
tossing,
travelers,
type and shadow,
writing,
zalam
The Improvement Era 64:2 (February 1961):87-89, 104-106, 108-111. An examination of the Liahona in the light of Arabic divination arrows. — Midgley
August 2, 1962 by •
Asiatic(s),
Book of Mormon,
coronation,
cultural patterns,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
elephants,
Ether book of,
Gold Plates,
hanging,
howlers,
Jaredites,
Joseph Smith,
Joseph's garment,
kingship,
legendary consistency,
Liahona,
money,
names proper,
Nephites,
Pyrophilus,
revelation(s),
ship(s),
steel,
stones shining,
the Ark,
tradition(s) vertical,
Vertical,
Vertical Judaism,
white robe,
Zohar
Millennial Star 125:2 (February 1963): 28-34; CWHN 8: 243-258. Nibley shows that a long list of mistakes presumably made by Joseph Smith may actually turn out to be, on closer inspection and with fuller understanding, vindications of its authenticity. — Midgley