Discusses the eschatological theories of the early Christian church. Intended to be included in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley.

Virtually all that is known of the world in which Lehi is purported to have lived has been discovered within the last hundred years, mostly within the last thirty. How does this information check with that in the book of 1 Nephi? A classic reflection on Lehi’s world in Arabia: poetry, tree of life, family affairs, politics, imagery, travel, tents, and foods. One of the first attempts to test the Book of Mormon against known geographical and cultural details in the regions where Lehi probably traveled in the Old World.

Scattering and gathering of Israel

Reprinted in Eloquent Witness: Nibley on Himself, Others, and the Temple, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 17.

EDITORS NOTE: With Christmas still fresh in our memories, Professor Hugh Nibley, in this article especially prepared for the readers of the Millennial Star, gives us an interesting insight into what the world looks for in the celebration of Christmas. Nibley briefly looked into the question of whether it is possible that the bewildering profusion of Christmas observances might contain, among other things, a latent longing for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Textbook with review questions

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Tests the story of Lehi against various markers certain Egyptologists use to test the authenticity of other Egyptian stories.

This talks about the teaching of the Lord after his resurrection.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Looks at the various dreams of prophets and how they related to the prophets’ lives at the time they had them.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Discusses the distinction that Lehi dwelt in a tent as showing him of a different class as those who dwelt in sturdier houses.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

States that Lehi’s family did not run into any important contacts throughout their eight years of wandering the desert because they didn’t light fires. It discusses this being a common practice even today so as to not attract the attention of prowling raiding parties.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Discusses Middle Eastern traditions of naming a place you have discovered after you and how that relates to the names of places within the Book of Mormon.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

A study of early desert poems.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

States that the actions of Lehi’s sons when they go back for the brass plates are typical of people from that time and even from today in the Middle East.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

A discussion about the history of using metal plates for more important records.

Draws the conclusion that Lehi took the shortest and safest route through the desert during his journeys in the Book of Mormon.

This article states that Church members (and those in the world if they only knew) should be grateful that the Lord has given further and clearer light of revelation in the Book of Mormon and other modern scriptures.

G-2 Reports—a series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences. “Years ago it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called “G-2 Report”) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

Reprinted in Eloquent Witness, in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley.

Reprinted in Ancient State: The Rulers and the Ruled, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 10.

How most modern traditions come from ancient ones, and why and how.

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

“The Religious Picture”: Changes in the religious world and in scholarship concerning religion are illustrated by numerous quotations from various writers.“

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

Changes in religious scholarship further illustrated. Quotations are arranged under headings such as “Revelation,” No Longer a Dirty Word,” “Neo-orthodoxy,” and “Science.”“

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

“Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

“Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

This report is a summary of the teachings of the early church fathers on the nature of God.“

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

“Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

Including such topics as no more infallible books, more revelation needed, the language problem, the textual problem, Paul quotes the ancients, the statue of John, the historical Jesus, and the present impasse.“

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences. This report includes excerpts from the Expository Times by Nibley in the form of a G-2 Report. 14 pages, s.s., 1984. Most excerpts deal with the state of Christianity in 1983 and 1984.

““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

Two topics or reports are included. Includes various quotations from the Expository Times on Old Testament biblical research. See “New Age of Discovery” in Since Cumorah, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 7.“

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

“Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

Topics include the flood, the patriarchal age, the Old Testament as history, the Old Testament in its Near Eastern setting, patterning, language of the Old Testament, and the integrity of the text.“

A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.

“Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

A comparison of the building of Solomon’s temple with the Saints’ building of the Salt Lake Temple

Reprinted as the second half of Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952); and reprinted in Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites. These articles were written in the form of expository letters to a fictitious “Professor F.”

A detailed reconstruction of the epic milieu and ancient historical setting in the third millennium B.C. in Mesopotamia and Asia relative to details about the Jaredites: their ships, shining stones, government, wars, society, and worldview.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

The epistolary form of this series of articles, is the style in which the writer most commonly expounds his views. Although “Professor F.” to whom these letters are addressed is a purely fictitious anthropologist in an eastern university, he is typical of many a real correspondent, and the letters themselves are no less typical. If “F.” seems unduly meek and teachable, that is because with the limited space at our disposal it would be folly to engage in long and needless controversies.

This talks about the teaching of the Lord after his resurrection.

This talked about how the dead received baptism.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Gives a historical parallel to the Big Wind to show that it such a thing was possible.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

A study into the deseret, or honeybee.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Studies the Jaredite practice of “drawing off” followers to an army to builds its forces and bides its time to show that this was a normal practice at the time.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Looks at ancient thrones and suggests that they all go back to the old Asiatic pattern.

The purpose of these articles is to (1) call attention to some of the long-ignored aspects of the Joseph Smith account of Enoch in the book of Moses and in the Inspired Version of Genesis and (2) provide at the same time some of the evidence that establishes the authenticity of that remarkable text. Contemporary learning offered few checks to the imagination of Joseph Smith; the enthusiasm of his followers presented none.

Addresses the dangers of oversimplifying the scriptures and attempts to look at the Book of Mormon without such oversimplification.

This exciting and penetrating comparison of the Joseph Smith book of Enoch, with four known variant manuscripts of that ancient work, provides yet another evidence of the Prophet’s inspiration and the scope of his vision in the great work of the Restoration.

A conclusion to the World of the Jaredites series.

Reprinted in LDS Views on Early Christianity and Apocrypha: Articles from BYU Studies, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.

A compendium of passages from the New Testament, from the early fathers of the church and from historians of Christian antiquity on the question of the apostasy. The issues raised in this handout were eventually dealt with systematically in the series that appeared in the Improvement Era between January and December 1955 called “The Way of the Church,” and also in the essay entitled “The Passing of the Church,” Church History 30, no. 2 (June 1961): 131–54; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970), 1–32; and in “The Passing of the Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme,” BYU Studies 16, no. 1 (1975): 135–64; “The Passing of the Primitive Church,” in Mormonism and Early Christianity, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 4. 209–322; and “The Passing of the Primitive Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme,” in When the Lights Went Out (2001), 1–47.

An edited version of The Message of the Twelve Prophets along with additional commentary on the Major Prophets

Commentary on the Old Testament with study questions

The bulk of these materials appeared in the Improvement Era between 1950 and 1952. The original illustrations and some other materials were not included in the book.

Reprinted in Eloquent Witness, in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley.

Reprinted in Eloquent Witness, in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley.

Includes a description of patriarchal blessings

Unpublished.

Discussion of Nibley’s review of No Man Knows My History.

“Reprinted in The Ancient State.

An examination of the problem of loyalty in the 4th century, with obvious significance for our own time. — Midgley“

Considers three significant aspects of the Roman loyalty program in the period designated.

Reprinted in The Prophetic Book of Mormon.

Writing on tally sticks is related to Ezekiel 37 and the meaning of the prophecy that two sticks shall become one. Extensive commentary on the traditional interpretations given to Ezekiel 37.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

“Demonstrates not only that

our interpretation of Ezekial 37:15ff is

a possible one—for there are many

possibilities—but that it is also the

one most likely intended by the

Prophet Ezekiel. “

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

A look at what the sticks of Judah and Joseph were or what they referred to.

This talked about how the dead received baptism.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

A discussion of the stick of Judah and the stick of Joseph as scepters.

A conclusion to the Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series.

This article is a brief summary of the missionary journey of Samuel Smith and his usage of the Book of Mormon, which resulted in the conversion of Rev. John P. Greene and others.

This article is a testimony of the redemption of the Lamanites. Kimball gives examples of certain “Lamanites” who are progressing in the Church.

A description of the Tabernacle, Dome of the Rock, Solomon’s temple, and Zerubbabel’s temple

Reprinted in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 8.

Relevant to 1 Nephi 13:11–12, this brief article gives historical evidence showing that Columbus was moved upon by the Holy Ghost.

Reprinted in The Prophetic Book of Mormon.

Vividly displays internal and external evidences to test whether the Book of Mormon is or is not a forgery, using the standard scholarly criteria for detecting forged writings. Very insightful comments on methodology for studying the Book of Mormon, evaluating evidence, using newly discovered documents, metal plates, literary criticism, poetry, lower criticism, and history. Also comments on animals, weights and measures, and the use of the Bible in the Book of Mormon.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

A study of new discoveries that answer questions critics of the Book of Mormon had been using to disprove its authenticity.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Discusses forgery throughout religious history and how we might test whether or not Joseph Smith forged the Book of Mormon.

This talked about how the dead received baptism.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Looks at circumstancial evidence attending the production of the Book of Mormon and how it suggests that the Book of Mormon is true.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Discusses the language of the Scrolls, specifically how it is not the language the Jews of the time should have been speaking and writing.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Suggests that the author of the Book of Mormon merely wanted people to believe in it and studies what the author might have gained from that.

The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.

Addresses the idea that the Book of Mormon may include as many or more Egyptianisms as Hebraisms and suggests that the translation of the Book of Mormon had to have been done by revelation in order for people to believe in its verity.

The purpose of these articles is to (1) call attention to some of the long-ignored aspects of the Joseph Smith account of Enoch in the book of Moses and in the Inspired Version of Genesis and (2) provide at the same time some of the evidence that establishes the authenticity of that remarkable text. Contemporary learning offered few checks to the imagination of Joseph Smith; the enthusiasm of his followers presented none.

A conclusion to the New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study series.

In 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of weekly lectures on KSL Radio. The series called “Time Vindicates the Prophets” was given in answer to those who were challenging the right of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call themselves Christians.

The original publication of the series of talks.

In 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of weekly lectures on KSL Radio. The series called “Time Vindicates the Prophets” was given in answer to those who were challenging the right of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call themselves Christians.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

This talk was later called, “How Will It Be when None More Saith ‘I Saw’?”

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A discussion of what a prophet is and a suggestion that a prophet’s reward isn’t acceptance in this life.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses what a prophet is not to show what a prophet is.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Addresses the need for scriptures and revelation and suggests that the two are not controversial but complementary.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Considers the second of two twin pillars of conventional Christianity: tradition, specifically traditions within the Church and how the Church breaks other Christian traditions.

Reprinted in Immortality: Famed Discourses on Eternal Progression and Future Existence and The World and the Prophets, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 3.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses the degree to which a spiritual message can or must be implemented in a physical manner.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses the weaknesses of judging prophets based on our experience of peaceful living and of the “quiet” life.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses the claim that a prophet is just another preacher and explains that this is false.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Suggests that the Church is the only non-speculative church in a world of speculative churches, which enhances its claim of being the primitive church.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A discussion of members as Christians by the definition of believing in Christ and a discussion of how the idea of Christianity as one who subscribes to the creeds of Christiandom came to be.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discussion of better ways to remember the dead.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses man’s tendency to only believe in God’s word where it matches man’s understanding and how this ties in with the Plan of Life.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses the idea that members consistently find themselves in the company of ancient saints and removed from behaviors and acts of contemporary Christians, especially when it comes to the search for God.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A discussion of what martyrdom is and how Joseph Smith’s relates to those found throughout history.

Part of a weekly lecture series featured on KSL radio.

A discussion about liberty and ancient beliefs involving such.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Suggests that the end of the primitive church came about due to the ceasing of prophetic revelations.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A history of schools and how they’ve affected prophets over the years.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A comparison of Latter-day Saint pioneers with ancient members and followers of Christ.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Talks about what St. Augustine’s great task was during life.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Addresses various peoples’ ideas that one can find certitude without revelation and discusses the idea that where there is no revelation, there is no certitude.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses Mysticism, the definition most scholars give it, and how that relates to prophets.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discussion of rhetoric having the impression of knowledge with no actual knowledge. This is contrasted with revelation, which provides true knowledge.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Looks at the idea of miracles within the Church and compares them with those found in the world.

Reprinted as a chapter in The World and the Prophets, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 3.

Radio talk on the Book of Mormon as a witness of continuing revelation and God’s dealings with mankind.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Talks about Hebrews 6: 4, 6. Suggests that it is possible for men to be gifted with everything only to later lose everything; then, it is not possible for them to regain those blessings by their own works.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Discusses a scientific religion that matches exactly with human experience and suggests that this is not actually a religion but a reduced, meaningless attempt.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A discussion of how prophets are essential to a True Church.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Suggests that religion is not practical for this life but is essential for the next.

Reprinted in The World and the Prophets, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 3.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

Suggests that joy is the main message prophets bring to mankind.

30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.

A travel journal of many Bible lands

A travel journal of many Bible lands

A travel journal of many Bible lands

A travel journal of many Bible lands

A travel journal of many Bible lands

A travel journal of many Bible lands

A travel journal of many Bible lands

This article argues that vast amounts of marvelous evidences for the Book of Mormon have accumulated. Archaeological evidences include the many discoveries in the Americas—La Venta, Izapa stone, Quetzalcoatl, bearded-men statues, Egyptian type burials, arts, metals, and textiles. The writings of sixteenth-century Indian historians, such as the Totonicapan, Popol Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Works of Ixtlilxochitl, and the writings of the sixteenth-century Catholic priests Bernardino de Sahagun, Bishop Bartholome de Las Casas, Diego de Landa, and Juan de Torquemad present correlations and correspondences to the Book of Mormon.

Reprinted in Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 12.

This is the published version of the first of several exchanges between Nibley and Sterling M. McMurrin. The exchange was held on 23 March 1955 under the sponsorship of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah. McMurrin’s address, “Religion and the Denial of History,” is published on pp. 5–21, although Nibley spoke first.

This series was to have been continued but was actually abandoned. The materials were eventually used in “The Passing of the Church,” Church History 30, no. 2 (June 1961): 131–54; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970): 1–32; in BYU Studies 16, no. 1 (1975): 139–64; in Mormonism and Early Christianity, The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 4. 209–322; and as “The Passing of the Primitive Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme,” in When the Lights Went Out (2001), 1–47.

Essays by Church leaders

The essays cover such subjects as early accounts of Jesus’ childhood, the Savior’s forty-day ministry after his resurrection, baptism for the dead in ancient times, the passing of the primitive church, and the early Christian prayer circle.

A discussion on the question: “Was the church Jesus founded expected to remain upon the earth for a limited time only, or was the ‘apostolic church’ destined ‘to remain firm and steadfast until the end of the world’?”

Part of a series in the Improvement Era, entitled The Way of the Church.

The first article of the series, beginning with a question and going into evidence to answer the question.

Part of a series in the Improvement Era, entitled The Way of the Church.

The second article of the series, addressing the idea that controlling the past controls the present, and the latter controls the future.

Part of a series in the Improvement Era, entitled The Way of the Church.

The third article of the series, describing what censorship has done to the Bible and what that means for readers.

Part of a series in the Improvement Era, entitled The Way of the Church.

Authority is created by people who want that particular authority in place.

Part of a series in the Improvement Era, entitled The Way of the Church.

Power lies in translation, but there are also follies that go with it.

Part of a series in the Improvement Era, entitled The Way of the Church.

The follies of translation continue, and the ups and downs of electronic translators.