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We Will Still Weep for Zion

January 2, 1975 by • affluence, Analiza Brigham Young, Babylon, Brigham Young, business, celestial law, consecrate, corrupt, Covenant People, covenant(s), covetousness, dishonest men, economy, environment, equal, eternity, evil, faithfulness, Far West, gain, generosity, Gentiles, God, Heber C. Kimball, idolatry, independence, integrity, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, land, Lord's, luxuries, money, Nauvoo, obedient, pride, property, repent, revelation(s), riches, sacrifice, Satan, self-justification, selfishness, Sophistry, speculation, test, the Church, the Gospel, the Law of Consecration, The LORD, the Prophet, the Saints, transgression, Two Ways, United Order, wisdom, world(s), Zion

CWHN 9:341-377

Our Book of Mormon (book review)

January 2, 1975 by • Book of Mormon, God's dealings, Moroni, Nephite Church, revelation(s), Sidney B. Sperry, Urim and Thummim

Our Book of Mormon by Sidney B. Sperry (Salt Lake City: Stevens & Wallis, 1948), review in The Improvement Era 51:1 (January 1948): 42

Nibley the Scholar

May 21, 1974 by • Book of Mormon, dispensation(s), drama, education, eschatology, eternity, existence, expanding mind, falsehoods, Heavenly Father, Hugh Nibley, ideologies, Joseph Smith, patterns, Perspective, pre-existence, pride, protology, religious hobbies, revelation(s), self-knowledge, Shakespeare, temple(s), testimony, the Church leadership, the Gospel, time, vanity

13 pp., typed transcript of a BYU Forum Assembly in which Nibley was interviewed by Louis Midgley, May 21, 1974

Educating the Saints

June 2, 1971 by • Analiza Brigham Young on education, Book of Mormon and education, celestial Learning, Contracted Mind, education, eternal things, expanding mind, Holy Ghost, intelligence, knowledge, learning, moral(s) life, priorities, revelation(s), the expanding mind, the Gospel, Treasures of the Earth, truth, universal assembly curriculum, universal curriculum

BYU Studies 11:1 (Autumn 1970):61-87; Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978):229-260; CWHN 13:306-345. Comparisons might be made with Nibley’s talks on Brigham Young delivered in June, 1967. — Midgley

Intre-Ancient Records

November 11, 1965 by • anthropologist, Aristotle, belief(s), Book of Mormon, Carl Popper, Charles Darwin, empirical, evidence, evolution, fact(s), God, Handsome Lake, hypothesis, hypothetical, imagination, induction, inspiration, interpretation, investigations, Iroquois, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, judgment(s), mistakes, observation, opinion(s), Paanchi, probabilities, records, revelation(s), scholar(s), science, scientific, scientist(s), spirit (and matter), test, testimony, The LORD, theories, truth

(See “Fact and Fancy in the Interpretation of Ancient Records”)

The Liahona’s Cousins

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

Howlers in the Book of Mormon

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

The Way of the Church: Two Views of Church History

July 1, 1955 by • aeon, apostasy, apostolic times, betrayal, Bible, Catholic(s) Church, Christ's church, Christian(s), Christianity, Church of Christ, complacency, Early the Church, evil, evil times, falling away, followers, Gentiles, God, Holy Ghost, iniquity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, judgment(s), kingdom(s) of God, martyr(s), New Education Testament, paganism, Paul, period, Primitive Church, restoration, revelation(s), sects, the Apostles, the Church history, the Comforter, the Gospel, the Light, The LORD, the wicked, Witness, woe

originally appeared as a series in the Improvement Era, 58 (Jan.–Dec. 1955); CWHN 4:209-322

On the Pearl of Great Price

January 2, 1952 by • Abraham, altar, ancient documents, angel(s) of the Lord, Anubis, archaeologist(s), Babylonia, bedstead, Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon, Brested, Chaldean(s), Chaldees, crocodile, Dead Sea Scrolls, Deveria, Eduard Meyer, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian drawings, Egyptian papyrus, Egyptologists, engraver, ephod, explanations, Facsimile No. 1, Facsimile No. 2, Facsimile No. 3, facsimiles, figures, fraudulent, funerary, God, gods, hand-picked experts, hawk, Hebrew(s), hieroglyphs, human beginnings sacrifice(s), hypocephali, idolatrous gods, influence, interpretation, Jews, Joseph Smith, Korash, Libnah, lion couch, lotus, Lucy Mack Smith, Mace, Mahmackrah, Mercer, Mesopotamia, Mormon(s), mummies, Nefertum, Nimrod, of the Spirit, original texts, Osiris, Pearl of Great Price, Peters, Petrie, Pharaoh, prejudice(d), Professor, representations, reproductions, Reuben Hedlock, Rev. F. S. Spaulding, revelation(s), sacred crocodile, Sais, Satan, scepter, scholar(s), Serik, Sobec, sword, symbolic drawings, Syria, the critic(s), the four directions, theory, translator, Ur, Urim and Thummim, Vigal, von Bissing, Wepwawet

34 pp., typed transcript of a lecture given on May 13, 1965

New Discoveries Concering the Bible and Church History

February 2, 1946 by • A. Haldar, A. Leaney, A. Nygren, A. Parrot, A. Van den Born, archaeology, B. M. B. Reardon, Bible, Bible church history, Bible new discoveries, Bible scholars, C. C. McCown, C. F. Moule, C. H. Dodd, C. L. Woolley, C. N. Cochrane, C. S. Lewis, C. Torrey, Canaan, Christian(s) scholars, Christianity, Christology, Cyrus Gordon, E. A. Speiser, E. C. Blackman, E. G. Selwyn, E. Kraeling, E. M. Good, eschatological, F. A. M. Spencer, F. C. Grant, G. C. Berkouwer, G. E. Wright, G. W. Bromiley, God, H. Cadbury, H. J. Schoeps, H. Riesenfeld, H. Rowley, H. Wildberger, inspiration, Israel, J. F. Walvoord, J. H. Eaton, J. Muilenburg, J. R. W. Scott, J. Reider, Jesus Christ, Jewish, K. Stendahl, M. Burrows, M. Simon, Mari tablets, McDonald, Mormonism, N. A. Dahl, New Education Testament, O. Cullman, Old Testament, Patriarchs, Prof. William Foxwell Albright, protology, R. M. Grant, Ras Shamra texts, revelation(s), S. Brandon, S. Mowinckel, S. V. McCasland, scripture(s), T. W. Manson, V. Taylor, W. C. Van Unnik, W. Dobschutz, W. Pauck

(Provo: BYU Extension Publications, 1963): 12 pp. A series of quotations by various writers on six general topics. — Midgley