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 18, 1969 by •
Adam,
Aeons of Peace,
angel(s) first,
apocryphal works writings,
baptism Christian,
Christianity,
darkness Watchers of,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
drama,
Egypt First Dynasty,
evil One,
God,
good,
Horus,
Jews,
King(s),
knowledge,
light Sons of Light,
Marduk,
matter,
Memphite theology,
Menes,
Messiah,
ordinances,
Plan of Salvation,
Ptah,
resurrection,
salvation,
Satan,
Seth,
Shabako stone,
Sons of Darkness,
Sons of God,
Sons of Heaven,
Sons of Light,
spirit (and matter),
spirituality,
Teti,
the Gospel,
Tiamat,
Two Ways doctrine of the,
Watchers,
Watchers of Darkness
BYU Studies 7:1 (Autumn 1965): 3-27; reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Prov: Religious Studies Center, 1978):21-47; CWHN 12:177-211. A talk given as the Second Annual BYU Faculty Lecture on March 17, 1965. — Midgley