Learn Greek

November 1, 1984 by • ancient Near East, apocrypha, apostles, Egypt, foundation, Greek, Greek Septuagint, inspired translation, Jews, New Education Testament, Old Testament, principal informant, scripture(s), translation

Learn Greek through the New Testament, by C. Wilfred Griggs and Randall Stewart, Foreword, (Provo: The Interlinguistica Series in Foreign Languages, 1981): I, ia.

In the Party, But Not of the Party

January 2, 1982 by • Abraham, apostles, Caesar, Caliphs, Catholic(s), Centurion, Christian(s), churchmen, Claudius, Constantine (Emperor), economy, Egypt, Emperor, Enoch, eternal, Father, Felix, Festus, Gentiles, God, Herod Agrippa, High Priest, Holy Ghost, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, John Chrysostom, Joseph Smith, Khan(s), King(s), Latter-day Saints, love, magistrates, ministers, missionary, Mormonism, Moses, party, Paul the Apostle, Pharaoh, polis, political, politics, Popes, prophet(s), Protestant(s), restoration, Romans, Rome, Satan, Sicarii, temporal, the Church, the Gospel, the Law, The LORD, 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

Mixed Voices

March 12, 1980 by • A. E. Housman, Alexander Campbell, American Anthropologist, American Indians, angel(s) Moroni, anti-Mormon, Armenian, B. H. Roberts, Bible, Book of Mormon, Brooklyn tabernacle, C. S. Braden, C. Sheridan Jones, Charles Francis Dams, Christian(s), Christian(s) duty, comparative method, contemporaries, criticism, Cyril of Jerusalem, D. B. Davis, Daniel P. Kidder, David H. Bays, David Marks, delusion, duty, E. D. Howe, Eduard Meyer, Egyptian hieroglyphics, embarrassment, Ethan Smith, evil, Fawn M. Brodie, Francis Kirkham, George Arbaugh, God, Gold Plates, Golden Bible, H. M. Beardsley, Henry C. Sheldon, hieroglyphics, impossibility, imposter, imposture, Indians American, Israel, J. H. Snowden, J. P. Newman, J. W. Gunnison, J.B. Turner, James H. Hunt, Jews, Joachim of Flora, John Hyde, John Reynolds, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Koran, L. Rumble, Lamanite(s), Latter-day Saints, M. B. Hogan, martyr(s), modern Arianism, Mormon Menace, Mormon(s), Mormonism, Moroni, Mosheim, Moslem(s), Nancy Towle, Nephi, Nephites, objectivity, Oliver Cowdery, Origen Bacheler, P. J. Pierce, peculiar, persecution, Prof. Meinhold Kiel, Prof. Rafinesque, prophet(s), public duty, Rabelais, religion, Rev. Charles Shook, Rev. H. Mattison, Rev. John H. Clark, Rev. Samuel Fallows, revelation(s), Saint Anselm, Satan, scholar(s), sects, semantic, Stevenson H. Spaulding, T. Talmage, T. W. P. Taylder, Ten Tribes, the critic(s), the Union, Thomas F. O'Dea, Thomas Gregg, toleration, uncertainty, unworthy, Utah, vague, View of the Hebrews, W. Cross, W. F. Prince, William A. Linn, William Earl LaRue, William Harris

a series of articles (on so-called Mormon “criticism”), in The Improvement Era, 1959; CWHN 8:127-206.

Conflict in the Churches between the God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers

January 1, 1979 by • Christian(s) church, Clement of Alexandria, gnosticism, God as described by philosophers, Holy Ghost, Jews, man in God's image, Rabbis, Tertullian

I. The Jewish Doctors: From Philo to Plotinus the Jewish teachers steadily deeschatologized and de-literalized the Scriptures. (N. Bentwich, Jewish Quarterly Review 4:1-21). “…the initiative in the attempt to stamp out orthodox Judaism and to hellenize the Jews was not taken by Antiochus, but by the influential body of hellenistic Jews.” (Oesterley, Apoc., 29). The …

New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study

January 2, 1977 by • Abyssinia, ancient parallels, Anointed One, apocrypha, Arab(s), Assumption of Moses, authenticity, authenticity doubtful, authenticity positive, authenticity possible, Babylon, Bedouin(s), believer, Bible, Book of Jubilees, Book of Mormon, brass, bronze, castles, Catholic(s), China, Christian(s), circumstantial, commentary, complexity, critical examination, criticism, D. W. Thomas, Dead Sea Scrolls, death, deceit, deceiver, discovery, divine power, document discoveries, doubtful authenticity, Eden, Egyptian, Egyptian names, elephants, English, Etruscan, Euphrates, evidence, Ezekiel, forgery, fraud, Friedrich Blass, garden of Eden, Ghumdan, gigunu, God, Godhead, gods, grave, ha-eretz, Hamlet, Hebrew(s), Hebrew(s) Bible, Hem, hermeneutics, hiding up, Hittite(s), hochtempel, Hymn of Thanksgiving, Indo-European, Ishmael, Israel, Israelites, Jacob, Jaredites, Jarmo, Jehoiachim, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph (sold into Egypt), Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Judaeans, Koran, Lachish, Land of Eden, language(s), Lehi, Lehi in the Desert, liberty, limited vocabulary, Manti, Manual of Discipline, Master of Justice, Medieval, Metallic format, Mimmation, Mohammed, Moroni, Moses, Nephi, New Education Testament, New Education World, Noah, nunnation, Old Testament, Old World, Paanchi, philology, plausible story, poet(s) Arab, proof, Pyramid, revelation(s), scholar(s), scholarship, scripture(s), sealed up, Seals of Babylonia, Shakespeare, temples of passage, testimony, the critic(s), the Scrolls, tieftempel, Tigris, Tower of Babel, tower temples, Turamian, Ur-Abraham, Ur-Genesis, weights and measures, witnesses, writing, Zedekiah, Ziggurat

a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953, 1954; CWHN 8:54-126

The Idea of the Temple in History

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: …

A Strange Thing in the Land

March 27, 1975 by • Abraham, Abyssinia, Adam, angel(s), Apocalypse of Adam, apocalyptic, apocrypha, Bible, Bodleian Library, Book of Adam, Book of Enoch, Book of Jeu, Book of Mormon, celestial law, Christian(s), City of Enoch, cosmology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, God, Greek Enoch, heavenly tablets, James Bruce, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Justin Scaliger, Joseph Smith, Jude, literature, Mahijah, Mahujah, Methusaleh, Moses, New Education Testament, Noah, Oannes, of Moses, Old Testament, Origen (early church father), Parley P. Pratt, Pearl of Great Price, Prophecy of Enoch, R. H. Charles, Revelation, Richard Laurence, sacred writing, Satan, scholar(s), Slavonic Enoch, The LORD, Watchers, wickedness, Zion

“‘A Strange Thing in the Land’: The Return of the Book of Enoch,” a series of articles in Ensign; CWHN 2:91-301

Pearl of Great Price Papyrus Acquisition (Pearl of Great Price Papyri, 14 March 1967)

July 2, 1972 by • Abraham, Abraham literature, Apocalypse of Abraham, Babylonian(s), Bidemon family, Bidemon's heirs, Bishop Spalding, Book of Abraham, Book of Joseph, Book of Mormon, Book of the Dead, Breasted, Chicago fire, conspiracies, conventional, Coptic church document, documents, Dr. Klaus Baer, Egyptian, Egyptian class, Egyptologists, Facsimile, Hebrew(s), Hedlock reproduction, hieratic, hieroglyphics, hypocephali, Jews, Joseph Smith, Lucy Mack picture, manuscript(s), men from Chicago, Mormon(s), mummies, original scribe, Pearl of Great Price, Pharaoh, photographic, President Tanner, Prof. John Wilson, Reorganites, scandal, scribe(s), secret, the Church, the critic(s), unconventional

15 pp., transcript of a talk given on March 14, 1967

Christian Envy of the Temple

January 2, 1970 by • Christian(s) church, Crusades, divine plan, God, Islam, Jerusalem, Jews, Mormonism, Reformation, Roman Catholicism, scholasticism, schoolmen, synagogue, temple(s)

a two-part essay in the Jewish Quarterly Review 50:2,3/97-123 and 229-240. Reprinted with the same title in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001):55-58; 91-142; CWHN 4:391-434. A detailed study of the reaction of early Christian writers to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. — Midgley

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