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1 Nephi
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 06 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah 29, Lehi's Jerusalem"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Lehi (Prophet), Book of Mormon
"Lecture 07 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 08 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi Escape from Doom"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 09 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1-3, 15"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 11 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 4-7 Scripture and Family"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 12 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 8-11 The Tree of Life"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 13 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 12-14 Nephi's Vision"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 14 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 15-16"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 15 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 17-19,22 Toward the Promised Land"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
2 Nephi
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 16 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 1-4 Atonement"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 17 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 2 The Law and The Atonement"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 18 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 3-8"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 19 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 9 The Atonement & Judgment"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 20 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25 The Jews and Jerusalem"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 21 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25-28 Nephi's Prophecy of our Times"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 22 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 29-31 Scripture and Canon"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 23 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 32--33; Jacob 1--2"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
Abraham
"Abraham." Lecture given at the LDS Institute, Utah Valley State College, 14 June 1995.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
Abraham in Egypt. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981. xi + 288 pp.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Abraham (Prophet)
Abraham in Egypt (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 14). Edited by Gary P. Gillum. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2000. xxxiii + 705 pp.
Abstract: Considered by many to be a classic in LDS literature, Abraham in Egypt is coming back to print in an enlarged edition published in association with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). In 1968-1970, Hugh Nibley wrote a series of articles for the Improvement Era titled "A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price." Brother Nibley asked that some of these articles be made into chapters to be added to Abraham in Egypt. This is what constitutes the new edition; no changes were made to the original chapters. For the articles, Nibley drew from many Jewish and rabbinical sources, while his work in the first edition was based on Egyptian material.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Abraham (Prophet)
"Abraham's Creation Drama." Talk given on 6 April 1999, at the Joseph Smith Building auditorium, Brigham Young University, and later at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, as part of the Book of Abraham Lecture Series sponsored by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Abraham's Temple Drama." In The Temple in Time and Eternity, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 1–42. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
An Approach to the Book of Abraham (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 18). Edited by John Gee. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2009. xxxix + 632 pp.
Abstract: The volume contains diverse essays, including his three-year series of lengthy articles from the Improvement Era, “A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price.” According to Nibley, “Until now, no one has done much more than play around with the bedizening treasury of the Pearl of Great Price. They would not, we could not make of the Book of Abraham an object of serious study. The time has come to change all that.”
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Abraham (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 23)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Abraham (Prophet)
"Judging and Prejudging the Book of Abraham." An appendix in They Lie in Wait to Deceive, vol. 1:236–45, by Robert L. and Rosemary Brown, edited by Barbara Ellsworth, rev. ed. Mesa, AZ: Brownsworth, 1982.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
One Eternal Round (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 19). Coauthored by Michael D. Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2010. xxii + 698.
Abstract: One Eternal Round is the culmination of Hugh Nibley's thought on the book of Abraham and represents over fifteen years of research and writing. The volume includes penetrating insights into Egyptian pharaohs and medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions about Abraham; Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian myths; the Aztec calendar stone; Hopi Indian ceremonies; and early Jewish and Christian apocrypha, as well as the relationship of myth, ritual, and history.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Part 7. The Unknown Abraham." Improvement Era, January 1969, 26–33.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 7. The Unknown Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, February 1969, 64–67.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 7. The Unknown Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, April 1969, 66–72.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 7. The Unknown Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, June 1969, 126–28, 130–32.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 7. The Unknown Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, July 1969, 97–101.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 8[7]. The Unknown Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, March 1969, 76, 79–80, 82, 84.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 8[7]. The Unknown Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, May 1969, 87–91.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 9. Setting the Stage: The World of Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, January 1970, 56–65.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 9. Setting the Stage—The World of Abraham." Improvement Era, October 1969, 89–95.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Part 9. Setting the Stage—The World of Abraham (continued)." Improvement Era, November 1969, 116–26.
Keywords: Abraham (Prophet)
"Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham." BYU Studies 8/2 (1968): 171–78 (plus reproductions, 179–90).
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham: A Response." Sunstone, December 1979, 49–51.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 16). Edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxx + 609 pp.
Abstract: This is the first — and still the only book-length commentary on the Joseph Smith Papyri. In this long-awaited new edition, with expanded text and numerous illustrations, Professor Nibley shows that the papyri are not the source of the Book of Abraham. Rather than focusing on what the papyri are not, as most commentators have done, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they meant in ancient times. He demonstrates how these ancient Egyptian papyri contain a message that is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"The Three Facsimiles from the Book of Abraham." Talk prepared ca. 1980.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"What, Exactly, Is the Purpose and Significance of the Facsimiles in the Book of Abraham?" Ensign, March 1976, 34–36.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
Ancient Near East
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"1: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, February 1956, 88–89, 106, 108.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"2: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, March 1956, 150–52, 185–87.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"3: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, April 1956, 244–45, 252–54, 258.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"4: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, May 1956, 308–10, 334, 336, 338–40.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"5: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, June 1956, 390–91, 460–61.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
Abraham in Egypt. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981. xi + 288 pp.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Abraham (Prophet)
Abraham in Egypt (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 14). Edited by Gary P. Gillum. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2000. xxxiii + 705 pp.
Abstract: Considered by many to be a classic in LDS literature, Abraham in Egypt is coming back to print in an enlarged edition published in association with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). In 1968-1970, Hugh Nibley wrote a series of articles for the Improvement Era titled "A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price." Brother Nibley asked that some of these articles be made into chapters to be added to Abraham in Egypt. This is what constitutes the new edition; no changes were made to the original chapters. For the articles, Nibley drew from many Jewish and rabbinical sources, while his work in the first edition was based on Egyptian material.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Abraham (Prophet)
"Egyptian Temples and Ours." Talk given on 22 May 1993, for a group in Richfield, Utah.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Babylon Creation Myth (Pearl of Great Price Lectures Series - 10)"
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon, Pearl of Great Price
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
"Looking Backward." In The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, edited by Truman G. Madsen, 39–51. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984.
See also: Included as the last section of “What is a Temple?” in Mormonism and Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 4) (1987)
Abstract: In his volume The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, Nibley describes in great detail initiation and ritual and coronation procedures among the Egyptians. The appendix in this book includes temple-related lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem and other early documents. In the present essay Nibley provides a context for this study and his many others which, almost without his being aware of it, have formed the background of his temple preoccupation over three decades. He shows how incredibly mixed and diffuse and varied are traditions growing out of temple worship in the religions of the Far East, as with those of the Middle East. The power of the temple idea to invade the minutest detail of life is demonstrated. Inconclusive though many scholarly studies remain about a philosophy or matrix to make sense of all the data, Nibley believes there are connections and symmetries and correspondences which again point to one conclusion: historically, civilizations—indeed civilization itself—have revolved around the temple. This essay and his preceding one provide an omnibus introduction to the more specialized studies that follow.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith
"BYU Education Week lectures." delivered in the summer of 1965 at Oakland, California.
"New Light from Egypt"
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
One Eternal Round (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 19). Coauthored by Michael D. Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2010. xxii + 698.
Abstract: One Eternal Round is the culmination of Hugh Nibley's thought on the book of Abraham and represents over fifteen years of research and writing. The volume includes penetrating insights into Egyptian pharaohs and medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions about Abraham; Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian myths; the Aztec calendar stone; Hopi Indian ceremonies; and early Jewish and Christian apocrypha, as well as the relationship of myth, ritual, and history.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 1 - The Problem." Improvement Era 53, no. 1 (1950): 102-104, 155-159.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Arabia, Egyptology, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 9 - A Word About Plates." Improvement Era 53, no. 9 (1950): 706-708, 744.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Bountiful (Old World), Metal Plates, Metallurgy, Recordkeeping, Wilderness
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"The Babylonian Background, 1." Improvement Era, July 1956, 509–11, 514, 516.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon
"The Babylonian Background, 2." Improvement Era, August 1956, 566–67, 602.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon
The Early Christian Church in Light of Some Newly Discovered Papyri from Egypt. Provo, UT: BYU Extension Publications, 1964.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"The Greatness of Egypt." Address delivered on 12 March 1986, as part of the Ramses II International Lecture Series.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers." BYU Studies 11/4 (1971): 350–99.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975. xiii + 305 pp.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 16). Edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxx + 609 pp.
Abstract: This is the first — and still the only book-length commentary on the Joseph Smith Papyri. In this long-awaited new edition, with expanded text and numerous illustrations, Professor Nibley shows that the papyri are not the source of the Book of Abraham. Rather than focusing on what the papyri are not, as most commentators have done, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they meant in ancient times. He demonstrates how these ancient Egyptian papyri contain a message that is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"There Is Always Egypt." Address delivered on 25 October 1985, on the 26th floor of the Church Office Building, Salt Lake City, UT.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
Babylon
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Babylon Creation Myth (Pearl of Great Price Lectures Series - 10)"
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon, Pearl of Great Price
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"The Babylonian Background, 1." Improvement Era, July 1956, 509–11, 514, 516.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon
"The Babylonian Background, 2." Improvement Era, August 1956, 566–67, 602.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon
Bible
"'Great Are the Words of Isaiah'." In Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 177–95. Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
"A New Translation of Isaiah." BYU Today, December 1982, 23.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 15). Edited by John F. Hall and John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxv + 254 pp.
Abstract: Much can be learned from the New Testament and other early Christian sources about the powers, duties, and desired attributes of those who originally held the offices of apostle and bishop. Catholics claim that Peter was the first bishop of Rome, and Eastern Orthodox Christians assert that he was the first bishop of Antioch. But does either position reflect the apostolic or episcopal offices completely or correctly? What, really was the role of bishops, and what was their relationship with apostles in the early Christian church? It is hard to imagine anyone better than Hugh Nibley to shed light on this challenging and intriguing topic.
Keywords: Bible, New Testament
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"Epic Milieu in the Old Testament." Improvement Era, October 1956, 710–12, 745–51.
Keywords: Bible, Old Testament
"Great Are the Words of Isaiah." In Sidney B. Sperry Symposium [1978], 193–207. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1978.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
"Great Are the Words of Isaiah." In ASBYU Academics Presents: Outstanding Lectures, 1978–79, 71–88. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1979.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
"Historicity and the Bible." Address given to the seminary and institute faculty at Brigham Young University on 19 June 1956.
Keywords: Bible
Mormonism and Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 4). Edited by Todd M. Compton and Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1987. xiii + 446 pp.
Abstract: From the outset of his career, Dr. Hugh Nibley has been centrally concerned with primitive Christianity, especially the shadowy era between the New Testament proper and the emergence and the triumph of the Catholic Church and Holy Roman Empire. That is the era treated in the nine essays collected in this volume. 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. Each essay examines the close connection between the practices and the doctrines of the early Church and the Church of the latter days. Each essay has been reedited, and all the original sources have been rechecked.
Keywords: Bible, New Testament
New Discoveries concerning the Bible and Church History. Provo, UT: BYU Extension Publications, 1963.
Keywords: Bible
Old Testament and Related Studies (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 1). Edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. xiv + 290 pp.
Abstract: In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”This collection of papers and lectures, many of which have never been published, includes papers on the earth before Adam, the historicity of the Bible, archaeology and religion, myths and the scriptures, patriarchy and matriarchy, apocryphal works, the message of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, and other subjects, all in Dr. Nibley's fascinating and inimitable style.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah (Prophet), Bible, Old Testament
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles." Improvement Era, November 1965, 974–77, 1013, 1040.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, December 1965, 1090–91, 1165–68.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, January 1966, 32–34, 44–46.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, February 1966, 118–22.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, March 1966, 196–97, 232–34.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
Book of Abraham
An Approach to the Book of Abraham (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 18). Edited by John Gee. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2009. xxxix + 632 pp.
Abstract: The volume contains diverse essays, including his three-year series of lengthy articles from the Improvement Era, “A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price.” According to Nibley, “Until now, no one has done much more than play around with the bedizening treasury of the Pearl of Great Price. They would not, we could not make of the Book of Abraham an object of serious study. The time has come to change all that.”
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Judging and Prejudging the Book of Abraham." An appendix in They Lie in Wait to Deceive, vol. 1:236–45, by Robert L. and Rosemary Brown, edited by Barbara Ellsworth, rev. ed. Mesa, AZ: Brownsworth, 1982.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
One Eternal Round (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 19). Coauthored by Michael D. Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2010. xxii + 698.
Abstract: One Eternal Round is the culmination of Hugh Nibley's thought on the book of Abraham and represents over fifteen years of research and writing. The volume includes penetrating insights into Egyptian pharaohs and medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions about Abraham; Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian myths; the Aztec calendar stone; Hopi Indian ceremonies; and early Jewish and Christian apocrypha, as well as the relationship of myth, ritual, and history.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham." BYU Studies 8/2 (1968): 171–78 (plus reproductions, 179–90).
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham: A Response." Sunstone, December 1979, 49–51.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 16). Edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxx + 609 pp.
Abstract: This is the first — and still the only book-length commentary on the Joseph Smith Papyri. In this long-awaited new edition, with expanded text and numerous illustrations, Professor Nibley shows that the papyri are not the source of the Book of Abraham. Rather than focusing on what the papyri are not, as most commentators have done, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they meant in ancient times. He demonstrates how these ancient Egyptian papyri contain a message that is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"The Three Facsimiles from the Book of Abraham." Talk prepared ca. 1980.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"What, Exactly, Is the Purpose and Significance of the Facsimiles in the Book of Abraham?" Ensign, March 1976, 34–36.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
Book of Mormon
"'Howlers' in the Book of Mormon." Millennial Star 125 (February 1963): 28–34.
Abstract: Lists over twenty Book of Mormon points that may have seemed ridiculous in 1830 but that “appear very different” in light of modern scholarship, including transoceanic voyaging, gold plates, steel, elephants, coins, names, literary and ritual patterns, execution, modes of prophecy and revelation.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
An Approach to the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1957. xvi + 416 pp.
See also:
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1964)
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 6) (1988)
Keywords: Book of Mormon
An Approach to the Book of Mormon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1964. xxii + 416 pp.
See also:
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1957)
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 6) (1988)
Keywords: Book of Mormon
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 6). Edited by John W. Welch. 3rd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. Xvii + 541 pp.
See also:
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1957)
An Approach to the Book of Mormon (1964)
Abstract: Originally published in 1957 as a Melchizedek Priesthood manual , An Approach to the Book of Mormon is Dr. Hugh Nibley’s classic work on the Book of Mormon. A gifted scholar with expertise in ancient languages, literature, and history, Nibley shows numerous details in the Book of Mormon narrative to be in accord with cultural traits of the Middle East.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Bird Island." Dialogue 10/4 (1977): 120–23. An Academics Awareness Lecture given at Brigham Young University on 26 June 1975.
Abstract: Satirical lecture on some of the excesses and weaknesses of archaeology and theories of Book of Mormon geography.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Censoring the Joseph Smith Story." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: Explains how Joseph Smith’s critics in the 1840s and also Fawn Brodie rewrote Joseph’s story to suit their perceptions of the Book of Mormon and the First Vision.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Book of Mormon
"Christ among the Ruins." Ensign, July 1983, 14, 16–19.
Abstract: A comparison of the Old World early Christian ‘forty-day ministry’ story with the New World 3 Nephi accounts.” Compares Jesus’ post-resurrection words to his disciples in Galilee with accounts in the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Critical Opinion of the Pearl of Great Price." July 26, 1967, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley discusses the military strategy and tactics of the wars in the Book of Mormon compared to other modern and ancient warfare.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Mormon
"Freemen and Kingmen in the Book of Mormon." Talk given in 1980, and again on 18 January 1981 at the J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Abstract: Captain Moroni was a man of peace. Analyzes war, government, management, the political tactics and strategies of Amalickiah, and the constant struggle between those who follow the ways of righteousness and those who promote wicked political agendas. Includes notes about similar political problems in ancient Mesoamerican societies.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Last Call: An Apocalyptic Warning from the Book of Mormon." Sunstone, January 1988, 14–25.
Abstract: The Book of Mormon’s message of Christ specifically is to “show” and “convince” by a bulwark of historical evidence through which the doctrine must be considered. The ascension motif—righteous man rising above the wicked world by supplicating God—is repeated over and over. It is symbolic and warns mankind to spiritually break away from his real enemy, himself, in the world of sin.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 03 - Book of Mormon - Geopolitics 600 BC"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 04 - Book of Mormon - 600 B.C. Setting the Stage"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 05 - Book of Mormon - Jeremiah & Solon: Lehi's Contemporaries"
Keywords: Lehi (Prophet), Book of Mormon
"Lecture 06 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah 29, Lehi's Jerusalem"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Lehi (Prophet), Book of Mormon
"Lecture 07 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 08 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi Escape from Doom"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 09 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1-3, 15"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 10 - Book of Mormon - Dead Sea Scrolls"
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 101 - Book of Mormon - 3 Nephi 19-4 Nephi 1"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 104 - Book of Mormon - 4 Nephi 1:27-Mormon 2"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 11 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 4-7 Scripture and Family"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 12 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 8-11 The Tree of Life"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 13 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 12-14 Nephi's Vision"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 14 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 15-16"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 15 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 17-19,22 Toward the Promised Land"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 16 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 1-4 Atonement"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 17 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 2 The Law and The Atonement"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 18 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 3-8"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 19 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 9 The Atonement & Judgment"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 20 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25 The Jews and Jerusalem"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 21 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25-28 Nephi's Prophecy of our Times"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 22 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 29-31 Scripture and Canon"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 23 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 32--33; Jacob 1--2"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 24 - Book of Mormon - Jacob 3-4 Filthiness and the Atonement"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 27 - Book of Mormon - Omni, Words of Mormon, Mosiah 1"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 28 - Book of Mormon - Mosiah 1-2 King Benjamin's Speech"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 29 - Book of Mormon - Mosiah 3-5 King Benjamin's Speech"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 2." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 3." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 80 - Book of Mormon - Helaman 13-3 Nephi 2"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
"Mixed Voices: A Study in Book of Mormon Criticism." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: A series about the Book of Mormon and its nineteenth-century American critics. David Marks, who heard the story of the book from the Whitmer family, dismissed it as deception that he could not support by purchasing the book. Alexander Campbell, Origen Bacheler, E. D. Hose, and Professor Rafinesque joined him. The critics could not believe in angelic visits, visions, and further revelation from God. They criticized the grammar and content, rebuked the translator as a fraud, a liar, and a money-digging, peep-stone looking cheat. One critic relied upon the words of another without checking to see if there was any truth.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"New Approaches to Book of Mormon Study." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Rediscovery of the Apocrypha, Part 1." March 18, 1965, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley draws parallels between language and traditions found in the Apocrypha to the culture of the people in the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Rediscovery of the Apocrypha, Part 2." March 18, 1965, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: In the second half of his lecture, Hugh Nibley compares the linguistics and culture of the Book of Mormon to that found in the Apocrypha.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Reflections on War in the Book of Mormon." Talk given on 24 March 1989, at the FARMS Symposium on Warfare in the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Review of Our Book of Mormon, by Sidney B. Sperry." The Improvement Era; 1941-1950 (Volumes 44-53); 1948 (Volume 51); 1948 January (No. 1); Church History Library, 42.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1967. xiii + 451 pp.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 7). Edited by John W. Welch. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xv + 512 pp.
Abstract: A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 2." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 2: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 473 pp. Transcripts of 27 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the second of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part two contains twenty-seven lectures focusing on Mosiah 6 through Alma 41. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 3." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 3: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 360 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the third of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part three contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on Alma 45 through 3 Nephi 20. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 287 pp. Transcripts of 27 lectures with 5 lectures by John W. Welch.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the last of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part four covers 3 Nephi 6 through Moroni 10. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Testing the Book of Mormon." Talk given at a Portland Institute Symposium held in Portland, Oregon, in 1979.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles." Improvement Era, November 1965, 974–77, 1013, 1040.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, December 1965, 1090–91, 1165–68.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, January 1966, 32–34, 44–46.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, February 1966, 118–22.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"The Bible, the Scrolls, and the Book of Mormon: A Problem of Three Bibles (continued)." Improvement Era, March 1966, 196–97, 232–34.
Keywords: Bible, Book of Mormon
"BYU Education Week lectures." delivered in the summer of 1965 at Oakland, California.
"The Book of Mormon"
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Book of Mormon and the Ruins: The Main Issues." Lecture dated 13 July 1980.
Abstract: Lecture notes regarding Mesoamerican ruins, pre-Columbian, American races, Cumorah, and the disappearance of ancient cultures.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Book of Mormon as a Mirror of the East." The Improvement Era; 1941-1950 (Volumes 44-53); 1948 (Volume 51); 1948 April (No. 4); Church History Library, 202– 4, 249–51.
Abstract: "THE AVERAGE MAN," Wrote the great A. E. Housman, "believes that the text of ancient authors is generally sound, not because he has acquainted himself With the elements of the problem, but because he would feel uncomfortable if he did not believe it." The Book of Mormon has enjoyed no such popular support. Indeed, the "average man" would like nothing better than to see it thoroughly exposed once and for all; it has made him feel uncomfortable for over a century. What is holding up the show?
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Book of Mormon as a Mirror of the East." Improvement Era, November 1970, 115–20, 122–25.
Abstract: Book of Mormon proper names are related to Egyptian etymologies.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Book of Mormon As a Record of Military Strategy." April 10, 1967, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley discusses the military strategy and tactics of the wars in the Book of Mormon compared to other modern and ancient warfare.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Time Vindicates the Prophets." Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1954. 30 pamphlets, weekly radio addresses from 7 March to 17 October.
Abstract: 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 Book of Mormon as a Witness"
Abstract: Radio talk on the Book of Mormon as a witness of continuing revelation and God’s dealings with mankind.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Book of Mormon: Forty Years After." Talk given at the Sunstone 1988 Book of Mormon Lecture Series, 10 May 1988, at the Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Utah.
Abstract: Even after forty years of research, new insights are still to be found in the Book of Mormon. Examples come from the episode at the waters of Sebus, wordprinting, Enos and the princes of India, Isabel as a Phoenician name, the Zoramites as dissenters, and clear statements about God and man, riches, economics, and repentance.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Book of Mormon: True or False?" Millennial Star 124 (November 1962): 274–77.
Abstract: Argues that if Joseph Smith was not telling the truth when he provided the world with the Book of Mormon, then he recklessly exposed his forgery and fraud to public discovery. The Book of Mormon is authentic history, not a forgery, and not a product of the tendencies of Joseph Smith’s day.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Lachish Letters: Documents from Lehi's Day." Ensign, December 1981, 48–54.
Abstract: Suggests connections between the Lachish letters written at the time Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians and events associated with Lehi’s departure. Includes political pressures on prophets, types of proper names, and a possible identification of Mulek.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"The Literary Style of the Book of Mormon." Deseret News, Church News, 29 July 1961, 10, 15. Originally a letter addressed to Dear Mr. ——, dated 12 July 1961.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Mormon View of the Book of Mormon." Concilium: An International Review of Theology 10 (December 1967): 82–83.
Abstract: A summary statement of the content and purpose of the Book of Mormon prepared for Concilium, a journal devoted to an examination of the Christian scriptures. Explains it as an ancient record, a companion to the Bible with revealed Christianity before Christ and 40-day literature from the appearance of Christ among the Nephites.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Classics
"The Prophetic Book of Mormon." Seventh East Press, 27 March 1982, 6–8, 16–17.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"The Prophetic Book of Mormon." Talk given in a Brigham Young University Alumni House lecture on 23 September 1981.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
The Prophetic Book of Mormon (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 8). Edited by John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1989. xi + 595 pp.
Abstract: The Book of Mormon is a prophetic book. It was written by prophets and about prophets. It was foreseen by prophets and foresees our day. It was brought forth by prophetic gifts for prophetic purposes. It speaks in a clarion voice of warning to those who would survive the last days.The articles in this volume, brought together under one cover for the first time, approach the Book of Mormon through a variety of prophetic themes. They speak out incisively on such topics as the prophecy of Ezekiel 37, internal and external evidences of the divine origin of the Book of Mormon, literary style in the Book of Mormon, ancient temples and the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Mormon's teachings for the last days.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"The Testament of Lehi: Part 1." Improvement Era, July 1965, 616–17, 645–48.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"The Testament of Lehi: Part 1 (continued)." Improvement Era, August 1965, 696–99, 702, 704.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"The World of the Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"There Were Jaredites." Improvement Era, January 1956, 30–32, 58–61.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era, continued.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"Warfare and the Book of Mormon." In Warfare in the Book of Mormon, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and William J. Hamblin, 127–45. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990.
Abstract: Compares the descriptions of warfare in the Book of Mormon with the writings and axioms of Karl von Clausewitz’s military treatise, Vom Kriege, that served the military as a bible for 150 years and was published in 1833. Descriptions of Book of Mormon warfare match von Clausewitz’s principles very well. Again the internal evidence of the Book of Mormon establishes its accuracy in describing technical subjects unknown to Joseph Smith.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
Book of Moses
"A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch." A series of articles in the Ensign.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Enoch the Prophet." In Pearl of Great Price Symposium: A Centennial Presentation, 76–85. Provo, UT: BYU Publications, 1976.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Enoch the Prophet." Lecture given 22 November 1975 for the Pearl of Great Price Symposium at Brigham Young University.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
Enoch the Prophet (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. viii + 309 pp.
Abstract: In the Book of Moses, part of the Latter-day Saint scriptural canon known as the Pearl of Great Price, are what the Prophet Joseph Smith entitled “extracts from the prophecy of Enoch.” These scriptures, says the eminent LDS scholar Hugh Nibley, “supply us with the most valuable control yet on the bona fides of the Prophet. . . . We are to test. . . . ‘How does it compare with records known to be authentic?’ The excerpts offer the nearest thing to a perfectly foolproof test—neat, clear-cut, and decisive—of Joseph Smith’s claim to inspiration.”In Enoch the Prophet, Dr. Nibley examines and defends that claim by examining Joseph Smith’s translations in the context of recently discovered apocryphal sources.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Enoch (Prophet), Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Moses (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Enoch (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 22)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley, The Eve Theme; The Book of Enoch (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 21)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"The Book of Enoch as a Theodicy." Paper read at the regional meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in Denver, Colorado, in 1974.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"What Did Hugh Nibley Have to Say About the LDS Enoch and the Aramaic Book of the Giants?" The Interpreter Foundation. These comments by Nibley are excerpted from a FARMS videocassette entitled “The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Era Dawns.” It contains material recorded in connection with a National Interfaith Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20 November 1992 in the Kresge Auditorium of Stanford University.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
Brigham Young
"Baptism for the Dead in Ancient Times." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: Authors Note: The rapid amassing of primary source works and auxiliary documents at Brigham Young University through the purchase of large collections and sets both in this country and abroad, has made it possible for the first time to examine the Latter-day Saint position with reference to many ancient and valuable texts, which it has been the custom of Christian scholars in general either to pass by in silence or to interpret arbitrarily. This article is in the nature of a preliminary survey dealing with a subject which has meant little to church historians in the past, but on which in recent years a surprising amount of evidence has been brought to light.—H. N.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Beyond Politics." Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011: (2011) Vol. 23 : No. 1, Article 12.
Abstract: This talk was given on 26 October 1973 to the Pi Sigma Alpha honor society in the Political Science Department at Brigham Young University. It first appeared in BYU Studies 15/1 (1974) and was reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1978) and in the second edition of that volume in 2004. It is reprinted here with minor technical editing.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young and the Enemy." In The Young Democrat, privately printed leaflets published in two separate parts in 1970.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young as a Leader." Address delivered on 6 June 1967.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young as a Theologian." Address delivered on 9 June 1967.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young on the Environment." In To the Glory of God, edited by Truman G. Madsen and Charles D. Tate, 3–29. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young on the Environment." Talk given on 21 April 1971 for Earth Week at Brigham Young University.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young, the Educator." June 9, 1967, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: Like Brigham Young, the educator, we should seek to educate ourselves in a wide variety of spiritual and secular fields in order for us to progress.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Brigham Young: Pioneer Conservationist." Address to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, at a rendezvous held in September 1987.
Keywords: Brigham Young
Brother Brigham Challenges the Saints (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 13). Edited by Don E. Norton and Shirley S. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1994. xv + 541 pp.
Abstract: Brother Brigham Challenges the Saints presents Hugh Nibley's reflections on the thoughts of Brigham Young on politics, education, leadership, and the environment. The timeliness of Brigham's counsel on these topics will quickly become apparent to readers, as will the unique insights that Nibley adds. This volume will amuse, provoke, and challenge — and, above all, educate.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Educating the Saints—A Brigham Young Mosaic." BYU Studies 11/1 (1970): 61–87.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Exaltation and Eternal Life (Words of Brigham Young)." January 1, 1960, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley shares some of the words of Brigham Young that demonstrate his unique character and his devotion to the goal of eternal life for the Saints.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"More Brigham Young on Education." In Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 2–20. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1976.
Keywords: Brigham Young
"More Brigham Young on Education." March 1, 1976, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Keywords: Brigham Young
Sounding Brass. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963. 294 pp.
See also: Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: The Art of Telling Tales about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 11) (1991)
Abstract: This book carries the subtitle “Informal Studies in the Lucrative Art of Telling Stories About Brigham Young and the Mormons” and is a response to Irving Wallace’s The Twenty-seventh Wife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961). A few historians have been annoyed because Nibley pointed out some of the flaws in anti-Mormon literature. “Hugh Nibley’s Sounding Brass …. is a meticulous critique of two anti-Mormon writings. Nibley’s book is most useful for the poorly informed who do not have the background to critique sensationalistic or popular works of questionable validity, like those of Ann Eliza Young or Irving Wallace.
Keywords: Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young
Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: The Art of Telling Tales about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 11). Edited by David J. Whittaker. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1991. xxi + 741 pp.
Abstract: The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, &ldquoThough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (I Corinthians 13:1). Since then, the terms “tinkling cymbals” and “sounding brass” have often been used to signify words of emptiness and confusion — describing perfectly most writings critical of the Latter-day Saints.Trained in history and interested in classical rhetoric, Hugh Nibley brings a broad perspective to his study of anti-Mormon writings. Included in this volume are: * No Ma'am, that's Not History* Censoring the Joseph Smith Story* The Myth Makers* Sounding Brass
Keywords: Brigham Young, Joseph Smith
"[Brigham Young] The Statesman." Address delivered on 7 June 1967.
Keywords: Brigham Young
“Classical” Publications
"Acclamatio (Never Cry Mob)." In Toward a Humanistic Science of Politics: Essays in Honor of Francis Dunham Wormuth, edited by Dalmas H. Nelson and Richard L. Sklar, 11–22. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983.
Keywords: Classics
"Christian Envy of the Temple." Jewish Quarterly Review 50/2 (October 1959): 97–123.
Keywords: Classics
"Christian Envy of the Temple [part 2]." Jewish Quarterly Review 50/3 (January 1960): 229–40.
Keywords: Classics
"Do Religion and History Conflict?" In Great Issues Forum, 22–39. Series 2: Religion, No. 5. Salt Lake City: University of Utah, Extension Division, 1955.
Keywords: Classics
"Evangelium Quadraginta Dierum." Vigiliae Christianae 20/1 (1966): 1–24.
Keywords: Classics
"Jerusalem: In Christianity." Encyclopedia Judaica, 9:1568–75. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Keywords: Classics
"New Light on Scaliger." Classical Journal 37/5 (February 1942): 291–95; Reprinted in CWHN 10:303-10.
Abstract: Review of "Joseph Justus Scailger" by Warren E. Blake, Classical Journal 36 (1940): 83-91
Keywords: Classics
"Qumran and the Companions of the Cave." Revue de Qumran 5/2 (1965): 177–98.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Classics
"Review of History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine, by Philip K. Hitti." Western Political Quarterly 5/2 (June 1952): 312–13.
Keywords: Classics
"Review of Near Eastern Culture and Society: A Symposium on the Meeting of East and West, edited by T. Cuyler Young." Western Political Quarterly 5/2 (June 1952): 315–16.
Keywords: Classics
"Review of The Ancient World, by Joseph W. Swain." Historian 13/1 (1951): 79–81.
Keywords: Classics
"Review of The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies, by Edward A. Shils." American Political Science Review 50/3 (September 1956): 887–88.
Keywords: Classics
"Sparsiones." Classical Journal 40/9 (June 1945): 515-43; Rprinted in CWHN 10:148-94.
Keywords: Classics
"Tenting, Toll, and Taxing." Western Political Quarterly 19/4 (1966): 599–630.
Keywords: Classics
"The Arrow, the Hunter, and the State." Western Political Quarterly 2/3 (1949): 328–44.
Keywords: Classics
"The Christmas Quest." Millennial Star; 1941-1950 (Volumes 103-112); 1950 (Volume 112); 1950 January (No. 1); Church History Library, 4–5.
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Classics
"The Freight Train." Lyric West 5/5 (1926): 171; Reprinted in Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life, 2002, p. 56.
Keywords: Classics
"The Hierocentric State." Western Political Quarterly 4/2 (1951): 226–53.
Keywords: Classics
"The Mormon View of the Book of Mormon." Concilium: An International Review of Theology 10 (December 1967): 82–83.
Abstract: A summary statement of the content and purpose of the Book of Mormon prepared for Concilium, a journal devoted to an examination of the Christian scriptures. Explains it as an ancient record, a companion to the Bible with revealed Christianity before Christ and 40-day literature from the appearance of Christ among the Nephites.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Classics
"The Passing of the Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme." Church History 30/2 (June 1961): 131–54.
Keywords: Classics
"The Roman Games as a Survival of an Archaic Year-Cult." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1939; Copy in HBLL SC box 27 folder 4 through box 29 folder 1.
Keywords: Classics
"The Unsolved Loyalty Problem: Our Western Heritage." Western Political Quarterly 6/4 (1953): 631–57.
Keywords: Classics
"Three Shrines: Mantic, Sophic, and Sophistic (The Confrontation of Greek and Christian Religiosity)." Three Deseret Lectures given on 1, 2, and 3 May 1963, Sterling Library Lecture Hall, Yale University.
Keywords: Classics
"Victoriosa Loquacitas: The Rise of Rhetoric and the Decline of Everything Else." Western Speech 20/2 (1956): 57–82.
Keywords: Classics
Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"Epilogue: Since Qumran." Improvement Era, July 1966, 636–38.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 10 - Book of Mormon - Dead Sea Scrolls"
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Mormon
Old Testament and Related Studies (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 1). Edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. xiv + 290 pp.
Abstract: In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”This collection of papers and lectures, many of which have never been published, includes papers on the earth before Adam, the historicity of the Bible, archaeology and religion, myths and the scriptures, patriarchy and matriarchy, apocryphal works, the message of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, and other subjects, all in Dr. Nibley's fascinating and inimitable style.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah (Prophet), Bible, Old Testament
"Qumran and the Companions of the Cave." Revue de Qumran 5/2 (1965): 177–98.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Classics
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, September 1966, 794–95, 799–800, 802, 804–5.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, October 1966, 884–85.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, November 1966, 974–75, 1028–31.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, December 1966, 1084–85, 1162–65.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 7). Edited by John W. Welch. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xv + 512 pp.
Abstract: A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Mormon
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"Since Qumran (continued)." Improvement Era, August 1966, 710–12.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
"BYU Education Week lectures." delivered in the summer of 1965 at Oakland, California.
"The Dead Sea Scrolls"
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"The Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Questions and Answers." Instructor, July 1963, 233–35.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
Egypt
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"1: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, February 1956, 88–89, 106, 108.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"2: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, March 1956, 150–52, 185–87.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"3: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, April 1956, 244–45, 252–54, 258.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"4: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, May 1956, 308–10, 334, 336, 338–40.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"5: Egypt Revisited." Improvement Era, June 1956, 390–91, 460–61.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
Abraham in Egypt. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981. xi + 288 pp.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Abraham (Prophet)
Abraham in Egypt (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 14). Edited by Gary P. Gillum. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2000. xxxiii + 705 pp.
Abstract: Considered by many to be a classic in LDS literature, Abraham in Egypt is coming back to print in an enlarged edition published in association with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). In 1968-1970, Hugh Nibley wrote a series of articles for the Improvement Era titled "A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price." Brother Nibley asked that some of these articles be made into chapters to be added to Abraham in Egypt. This is what constitutes the new edition; no changes were made to the original chapters. For the articles, Nibley drew from many Jewish and rabbinical sources, while his work in the first edition was based on Egyptian material.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Abraham (Prophet)
"Egyptian Temples and Ours." Talk given on 22 May 1993, for a group in Richfield, Utah.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"Looking Backward." In The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, edited by Truman G. Madsen, 39–51. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984.
See also: Included as the last section of “What is a Temple?” in Mormonism and Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 4) (1987)
Abstract: In his volume The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, Nibley describes in great detail initiation and ritual and coronation procedures among the Egyptians. The appendix in this book includes temple-related lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem and other early documents. In the present essay Nibley provides a context for this study and his many others which, almost without his being aware of it, have formed the background of his temple preoccupation over three decades. He shows how incredibly mixed and diffuse and varied are traditions growing out of temple worship in the religions of the Far East, as with those of the Middle East. The power of the temple idea to invade the minutest detail of life is demonstrated. Inconclusive though many scholarly studies remain about a philosophy or matrix to make sense of all the data, Nibley believes there are connections and symmetries and correspondences which again point to one conclusion: historically, civilizations—indeed civilization itself—have revolved around the temple. This essay and his preceding one provide an omnibus introduction to the more specialized studies that follow.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith
"BYU Education Week lectures." delivered in the summer of 1965 at Oakland, California.
"New Light from Egypt"
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
One Eternal Round (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 19). Coauthored by Michael D. Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2010. xxii + 698.
Abstract: One Eternal Round is the culmination of Hugh Nibley's thought on the book of Abraham and represents over fifteen years of research and writing. The volume includes penetrating insights into Egyptian pharaohs and medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions about Abraham; Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian myths; the Aztec calendar stone; Hopi Indian ceremonies; and early Jewish and Christian apocrypha, as well as the relationship of myth, ritual, and history.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 1 - The Problem." Improvement Era 53, no. 1 (1950): 102-104, 155-159.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Arabia, Egyptology, Lehi (Prophet)
The Early Christian Church in Light of Some Newly Discovered Papyri from Egypt. Provo, UT: BYU Extension Publications, 1964.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"The Greatness of Egypt." Address delivered on 12 March 1986, as part of the Ramses II International Lecture Series.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
"The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers." BYU Studies 11/4 (1971): 350–99.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975. xiii + 305 pp.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 16). Edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxx + 609 pp.
Abstract: This is the first — and still the only book-length commentary on the Joseph Smith Papyri. In this long-awaited new edition, with expanded text and numerous illustrations, Professor Nibley shows that the papyri are not the source of the Book of Abraham. Rather than focusing on what the papyri are not, as most commentators have done, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they meant in ancient times. He demonstrates how these ancient Egyptian papyri contain a message that is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"There Is Always Egypt." Address delivered on 25 October 1985, on the 26th floor of the Church Office Building, Salt Lake City, UT.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt
Enoch
"A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch." A series of articles in the Ensign.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Enoch the Prophet." In Pearl of Great Price Symposium: A Centennial Presentation, 76–85. Provo, UT: BYU Publications, 1976.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Enoch the Prophet." Lecture given 22 November 1975 for the Pearl of Great Price Symposium at Brigham Young University.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
Enoch the Prophet (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. viii + 309 pp.
Abstract: In the Book of Moses, part of the Latter-day Saint scriptural canon known as the Pearl of Great Price, are what the Prophet Joseph Smith entitled “extracts from the prophecy of Enoch.” These scriptures, says the eminent LDS scholar Hugh Nibley, “supply us with the most valuable control yet on the bona fides of the Prophet. . . . We are to test. . . . ‘How does it compare with records known to be authentic?’ The excerpts offer the nearest thing to a perfectly foolproof test—neat, clear-cut, and decisive—of Joseph Smith’s claim to inspiration.”In Enoch the Prophet, Dr. Nibley examines and defends that claim by examining Joseph Smith’s translations in the context of recently discovered apocryphal sources.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Enoch (Prophet), Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Moses (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Enoch (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 22)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley, The Eve Theme; The Book of Enoch (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 21)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"The Book of Enoch as a Theodicy." Paper read at the regional meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in Denver, Colorado, in 1974.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"What Did Hugh Nibley Have to Say About the LDS Enoch and the Aramaic Book of the Giants?" The Interpreter Foundation. These comments by Nibley are excerpted from a FARMS videocassette entitled “The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Era Dawns.” It contains material recorded in connection with a National Interfaith Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20 November 1992 in the Kresge Auditorium of Stanford University.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
Ether
Isaiah
"'Great Are the Words of Isaiah'." In Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 177–95. Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
"A New Translation of Isaiah." BYU Today, December 1982, 23.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
"Great Are the Words of Isaiah." In Sidney B. Sperry Symposium [1978], 193–207. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1978.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
"Great Are the Words of Isaiah." In ASBYU Academics Presents: Outstanding Lectures, 1978–79, 71–88. Provo, UT: BYU Press, 1979.
Keywords: Bible, Isaiah (Prophet)
Old Testament and Related Studies (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 1). Edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. xiv + 290 pp.
Abstract: In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”This collection of papers and lectures, many of which have never been published, includes papers on the earth before Adam, the historicity of the Bible, archaeology and religion, myths and the scriptures, patriarchy and matriarchy, apocryphal works, the message of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, and other subjects, all in Dr. Nibley's fascinating and inimitable style.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah (Prophet), Bible, Old Testament
Jaredites
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
"The World of the Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"There Were Jaredites." Improvement Era, January 1956, 30–32, 58–61.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era, continued.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
Joseph Smith
"Approach to John Gee, Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri." Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011: (2001) Vol. 13 : No. 2, Article 9.
Abstract: Review of A Guide to the Joseph Smtih Papyri (2000), by John Gee
Keywords: Joseph Smith
"Censoring the Joseph Smith Story." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: Explains how Joseph Smith’s critics in the 1840s and also Fawn Brodie rewrote Joseph’s story to suit their perceptions of the Book of Mormon and the First Vision.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Book of Mormon
"Common Carrier: Author Defends Image of Joseph Smith as Prophet." Salt Lake Tribune, 25 November 1973, G2.
Keywords: Joseph Smith
Enoch the Prophet (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. viii + 309 pp.
Abstract: In the Book of Moses, part of the Latter-day Saint scriptural canon known as the Pearl of Great Price, are what the Prophet Joseph Smith entitled “extracts from the prophecy of Enoch.” These scriptures, says the eminent LDS scholar Hugh Nibley, “supply us with the most valuable control yet on the bona fides of the Prophet. . . . We are to test. . . . ‘How does it compare with records known to be authentic?’ The excerpts offer the nearest thing to a perfectly foolproof test—neat, clear-cut, and decisive—of Joseph Smith’s claim to inspiration.”In Enoch the Prophet, Dr. Nibley examines and defends that claim by examining Joseph Smith’s translations in the context of recently discovered apocryphal sources.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Enoch (Prophet), Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Moses (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Joseph Smith (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 26)"
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Joseph Smith Matthew (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 25)"
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price
"Looking Backward." In The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, edited by Truman G. Madsen, 39–51. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984.
See also: Included as the last section of “What is a Temple?” in Mormonism and Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 4) (1987)
Abstract: In his volume The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment, Nibley describes in great detail initiation and ritual and coronation procedures among the Egyptians. The appendix in this book includes temple-related lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem and other early documents. In the present essay Nibley provides a context for this study and his many others which, almost without his being aware of it, have formed the background of his temple preoccupation over three decades. He shows how incredibly mixed and diffuse and varied are traditions growing out of temple worship in the religions of the Far East, as with those of the Middle East. The power of the temple idea to invade the minutest detail of life is demonstrated. Inconclusive though many scholarly studies remain about a philosophy or matrix to make sense of all the data, Nibley believes there are connections and symmetries and correspondences which again point to one conclusion: historically, civilizations—indeed civilization itself—have revolved around the temple. This essay and his preceding one provide an omnibus introduction to the more specialized studies that follow.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith
Old Testament and Related Studies (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 1). Edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. xiv + 290 pp.
Abstract: In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”This collection of papers and lectures, many of which have never been published, includes papers on the earth before Adam, the historicity of the Bible, archaeology and religion, myths and the scriptures, patriarchy and matriarchy, apocryphal works, the message of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, and other subjects, all in Dr. Nibley's fascinating and inimitable style.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah (Prophet), Bible, Old Testament
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975. xiii + 305 pp.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 16). Edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxx + 609 pp.
Abstract: This is the first — and still the only book-length commentary on the Joseph Smith Papyri. In this long-awaited new edition, with expanded text and numerous illustrations, Professor Nibley shows that the papyri are not the source of the Book of Abraham. Rather than focusing on what the papyri are not, as most commentators have done, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they meant in ancient times. He demonstrates how these ancient Egyptian papyri contain a message that is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
The Myth Makers. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1961. 293 pp.
Keywords: Mormon Church, Controversial literature, Mormons, Apologetic works, Joseph Smith
Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: The Art of Telling Tales about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 11). Edited by David J. Whittaker. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1991. xxi + 741 pp.
Abstract: The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, &ldquoThough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (I Corinthians 13:1). Since then, the terms “tinkling cymbals” and “sounding brass” have often been used to signify words of emptiness and confusion — describing perfectly most writings critical of the Latter-day Saints.Trained in history and interested in classical rhetoric, Hugh Nibley brings a broad perspective to his study of anti-Mormon writings. Included in this volume are: * No Ma'am, that's Not History* Censoring the Joseph Smith Story* The Myth Makers* Sounding Brass
Keywords: Brigham Young, Joseph Smith
Lehi
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 05 - Book of Mormon - Jeremiah & Solon: Lehi's Contemporaries"
Keywords: Lehi (Prophet), Book of Mormon
"Lecture 06 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah 29, Lehi's Jerusalem"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Lehi (Prophet), Book of Mormon
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 1 - The Problem." Improvement Era 53, no. 1 (1950): 102-104, 155-159.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Arabia, Egyptology, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 10 - Conclusion." Improvement Era 53, no. 10 (1950): 804-806, 824, 826, 828, 830.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet), Wilderness
"Part 2." Improvement Era 53, no. 2 (1950): 102-104, 155-159.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 3 - The Problem." Improvement Era 53, no. 3 (1950): 200-202, 222, 225-226, 229-230.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet), Wilderness
"Part 4." Improvement Era 53, no. 4 (1950): 276-277, 320-326.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet), Wilderness
"Part 5 - Contacts in the Desert." Improvement Era 53, no. 5 (1950): 382-384, 448-449.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet), Wilderness
"Part 6 - Place Names in the Desert." Improvement Era 53, no. 6 (1950): 486-487, 516-519.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet), Nahom, River of Laman, Shazer, Valley of Lemuel, Wilderness
"Part 7." Improvement Era 53, no. 7 (1950): 566-567, 587-588.
Keywords: Arabia, Lehi (Prophet), Poetry, Wilderness
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
"The Lachish Letters: Documents from Lehi's Day." Ensign, December 1981, 48–54.
Abstract: Suggests connections between the Lachish letters written at the time Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians and events associated with Lehi’s departure. Includes political pressures on prophets, types of proper names, and a possible identification of Mulek.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"The Testament of Lehi: Part 1." Improvement Era, July 1965, 616–17, 645–48.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"The Testament of Lehi: Part 1 (continued)." Improvement Era, August 1965, 696–99, 702, 704.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
Moses
Enoch the Prophet (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. viii + 309 pp.
Abstract: In the Book of Moses, part of the Latter-day Saint scriptural canon known as the Pearl of Great Price, are what the Prophet Joseph Smith entitled “extracts from the prophecy of Enoch.” These scriptures, says the eminent LDS scholar Hugh Nibley, “supply us with the most valuable control yet on the bona fides of the Prophet. . . . We are to test. . . . ‘How does it compare with records known to be authentic?’ The excerpts offer the nearest thing to a perfectly foolproof test—neat, clear-cut, and decisive—of Joseph Smith’s claim to inspiration.”In Enoch the Prophet, Dr. Nibley examines and defends that claim by examining Joseph Smith’s translations in the context of recently discovered apocryphal sources.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Enoch (Prophet), Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Moses (Prophet)
Nephi
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 06 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah 29, Lehi's Jerusalem"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Lehi (Prophet), Book of Mormon
"Lecture 07 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1 & Jeremiah"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 08 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi Escape from Doom"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 09 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 1-3, 15"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 11 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 4-7 Scripture and Family"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 12 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 8-11 The Tree of Life"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 13 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 12-14 Nephi's Vision"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 14 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 15-16"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 15 - Book of Mormon - 1 Nephi 17-19,22 Toward the Promised Land"
Keywords: 1 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 16 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 1-4 Atonement"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 17 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 2 The Law and The Atonement"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 18 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 3-8"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 19 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 9 The Atonement & Judgment"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 20 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25 The Jews and Jerusalem"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 21 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 25-28 Nephi's Prophecy of our Times"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 22 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 29-31 Scripture and Canon"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lecture 23 - Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 32--33; Jacob 1--2"
Keywords: 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952. viii + 272 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980. Contains a new comprehensive index by Gary P. Gillum.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952), Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987. viii + 272 pp. An unedited reprinting of the original version.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950), The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5). Edited by John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xviii + 464 pp.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert (1950)
The World of the Jaredites (1951)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is probably still best known for his groundbreaking investigations into the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Lehi and of the Jaredites. Those classic studies are contained in this volume — the first of several books to appear in the volumes of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley that deal with the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: 1 Nephi,2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Jaredites, Ether, Ancient Near East
"Lehi in the Desert." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
See also:
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1952)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1980)
Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites (1987)
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 5) (1988)
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Book of Mormon, Lehi (Prophet)
"Part 8 - Adventures in Jerusalem." Improvement Era 53, no. 8 (1950): 640-642, 670.
Keywords: Jerusalem (Old World), Laban, Nephi (Son of Lehi)
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
New Testament
Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 15). Edited by John F. Hall and John W. Welch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxv + 254 pp.
Abstract: Much can be learned from the New Testament and other early Christian sources about the powers, duties, and desired attributes of those who originally held the offices of apostle and bishop. Catholics claim that Peter was the first bishop of Rome, and Eastern Orthodox Christians assert that he was the first bishop of Antioch. But does either position reflect the apostolic or episcopal offices completely or correctly? What, really was the role of bishops, and what was their relationship with apostles in the early Christian church? It is hard to imagine anyone better than Hugh Nibley to shed light on this challenging and intriguing topic.
Keywords: Bible, New Testament
Mormonism and Early Christianity (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 4). Edited by Todd M. Compton and Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1987. xiii + 446 pp.
Abstract: From the outset of his career, Dr. Hugh Nibley has been centrally concerned with primitive Christianity, especially the shadowy era between the New Testament proper and the emergence and the triumph of the Catholic Church and Holy Roman Empire. That is the era treated in the nine essays collected in this volume. 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. Each essay examines the close connection between the practices and the doctrines of the early Church and the Church of the latter days. Each essay has been reedited, and all the original sources have been rechecked.
Keywords: Bible, New Testament
Old Testament
"There Were Jaredites." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: This wide-ranging series discusses the “epic milieu” of the second millennium B.C. and places the Jaredites in their historical context alongside the Babylonians, Egyptians, early Greeks and others. Makes a comparison between the Book of Ether and ancient writings of Babylon, Egypt, Sumer, and others. The description of the Jaredite boats seem to resemble the boat of Ut-Napitshtim who was the Sumerian counter-part of Noah. Old Jewish and even older Indian sources record the use of shining stones that protect the owner beneath the water. These have been traced back to Babylonian tales of the deluge. Since the Jaredite record reports that their boats were patterned after Noah’s ark, ancient myths that surely have their foundation in real events help to provide greater understanding of the book of Ether. The book of Ether meets all the criteria of epic traditions of heroic societies. The remains of heroic societies are difficult to identify.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, Jaredites
"Epic Milieu in the Old Testament." Improvement Era, October 1956, 710–12, 745–51.
Keywords: Bible, Old Testament
Old Testament and Related Studies (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 1). Edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. xiv + 290 pp.
Abstract: In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”This collection of papers and lectures, many of which have never been published, includes papers on the earth before Adam, the historicity of the Bible, archaeology and religion, myths and the scriptures, patriarchy and matriarchy, apocryphal works, the message of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, and other subjects, all in Dr. Nibley's fascinating and inimitable style.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah (Prophet), Bible, Old Testament
Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1: Transcripts of Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1990. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1993. 482 pp. Transcripts of 29 lectures.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley is one of the best-known and most highly revered of Latter-day Saint scholars. For over forty years this near-legendary teacher has enthralled his readers and listeners with his encyclopedic knowledge, his wit, and his untiring research in defense of Latter-day Saint beliefs. Now you can join Dr. Nibley in the first of four Honors Book of Mormon classes that he taught at BYU during 1988-90. Part one contains twenty-nine lectures focusing on 1 Nephi through Mosiah 5. It is vintage Nibley, with his insights, humor, and passionate convictions, discussing a book that he loves and knows so well.
Keywords: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Ancient Near East,Lehi (Prophet), Nephi (Prophet), Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls,Jacob (Prophet),Enos,Jarom,Omni, Mosiah, King Benjamin
Pearl of Great Price
"A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch." A series of articles in the Ensign.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
Abraham in Egypt (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 14). Edited by Gary P. Gillum. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2000. xxxiii + 705 pp.
Abstract: Considered by many to be a classic in LDS literature, Abraham in Egypt is coming back to print in an enlarged edition published in association with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). In 1968-1970, Hugh Nibley wrote a series of articles for the Improvement Era titled "A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price." Brother Nibley asked that some of these articles be made into chapters to be added to Abraham in Egypt. This is what constitutes the new edition; no changes were made to the original chapters. For the articles, Nibley drew from many Jewish and rabbinical sources, while his work in the first edition was based on Egyptian material.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Abraham (Prophet)
An Approach to the Book of Abraham (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 18). Edited by John Gee. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2009. xxxix + 632 pp.
Abstract: The volume contains diverse essays, including his three-year series of lengthy articles from the Improvement Era, “A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price.” According to Nibley, “Until now, no one has done much more than play around with the bedizening treasury of the Pearl of Great Price. They would not, we could not make of the Book of Abraham an object of serious study. The time has come to change all that.”
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Critical Opinion of the Pearl of Great Price." July 26, 1967, Brigham Young University Devotional.
Abstract: Hugh Nibley discusses the military strategy and tactics of the wars in the Book of Mormon compared to other modern and ancient warfare.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Mormon
"Enoch the Prophet." In Pearl of Great Price Symposium: A Centennial Presentation, 76–85. Provo, UT: BYU Publications, 1976.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Enoch the Prophet." Lecture given 22 November 1975 for the Pearl of Great Price Symposium at Brigham Young University.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
Enoch the Prophet (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen D. Ricks. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. viii + 309 pp.
Abstract: In the Book of Moses, part of the Latter-day Saint scriptural canon known as the Pearl of Great Price, are what the Prophet Joseph Smith entitled “extracts from the prophecy of Enoch.” These scriptures, says the eminent LDS scholar Hugh Nibley, “supply us with the most valuable control yet on the bona fides of the Prophet. . . . We are to test. . . . ‘How does it compare with records known to be authentic?’ The excerpts offer the nearest thing to a perfectly foolproof test—neat, clear-cut, and decisive—of Joseph Smith’s claim to inspiration.”In Enoch the Prophet, Dr. Nibley examines and defends that claim by examining Joseph Smith’s translations in the context of recently discovered apocryphal sources.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Enoch (Prophet), Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Moses (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series at Brigham Young University." Winter Semester, 1986, Maxwell Institute.
Keywords: Brigham Young, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Abraham (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 23)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Abraham (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley, Adam and Eve (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 19)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Allegory and Rhetoric (Pearl of Great Price Lectures Series - 2)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Cosmology (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 5)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Enoch (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 22)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley, Joseph Smith (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 26)"
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Joseph Smith Matthew (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 25)"
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Literalism (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 3)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Preexistence (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 4)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Restoring What Was Lost (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 1)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Babylon Creation Myth (Pearl of Great Price Lectures Series - 10)"
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Babylon, Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Combat (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 18)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Council (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 7)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Council According to the Shabako Stone (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 8)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Creation (Pearl of Great Price Lectures Series - 6)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Destruction (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 24)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Eve Theme; The Book of Enoch (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 21)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"Hugh Nibley, The Geological Problem (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 15)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Heavenly Prologue (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 17)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Heritage of Cain (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 20)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Human Condition (Pearl of Great Price Lectures Series - 11)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Mountain of the Lord's House (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 16)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Pearl of Great Price on the Plurality of Worlds (PoGP Lecture Series - 13)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Plurality of Worlds (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 12)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, The Shabako Stone Continued (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 9)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Hugh Nibley, Treasures in Heaven (Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series - 14)"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Judging and Prejudging the Book of Abraham." An appendix in They Lie in Wait to Deceive, vol. 1:236–45, by Robert L. and Rosemary Brown, edited by Barbara Ellsworth, rev. ed. Mesa, AZ: Brownsworth, 1982.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"On the Pearl of Great Price." Lecture given on 13 May 1965.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
One Eternal Round (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 19). Coauthored by Michael D. Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2010. xxii + 698.
Abstract: One Eternal Round is the culmination of Hugh Nibley's thought on the book of Abraham and represents over fifteen years of research and writing. The volume includes penetrating insights into Egyptian pharaohs and medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions about Abraham; Greek, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian myths; the Aztec calendar stone; Hopi Indian ceremonies; and early Jewish and Christian apocrypha, as well as the relationship of myth, ritual, and history.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"Pearl of Great Price Papyri Acquisition." Talk given on 14 March 1967 prior to the presentation of the Egyptian papyri to the Church by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 27 November 1967.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"BYU Education Week lectures." delivered in the summer of 1965 at Oakland, California.
"Pearl of Great Price Problems"
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price
"Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham." BYU Studies 8/2 (1968): 171–78 (plus reproductions, 179–90).
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"The Book of Enoch as a Theodicy." Paper read at the regional meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in Denver, Colorado, in 1974.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham: A Response." Sunstone, December 1979, 49–51.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 16). Edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes. Illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2005. xxx + 609 pp.
Abstract: This is the first — and still the only book-length commentary on the Joseph Smith Papyri. In this long-awaited new edition, with expanded text and numerous illustrations, Professor Nibley shows that the papyri are not the source of the Book of Abraham. Rather than focusing on what the papyri are not, as most commentators have done, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they meant in ancient times. He demonstrates how these ancient Egyptian papyri contain a message that is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints.
Keywords: Ancient Near East, Egypt, Joseph Smith, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"The Three Facsimiles from the Book of Abraham." Talk prepared ca. 1980.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
"What Did Hugh Nibley Have to Say About the LDS Enoch and the Aramaic Book of the Giants?" The Interpreter Foundation. These comments by Nibley are excerpted from a FARMS videocassette entitled “The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Era Dawns.” It contains material recorded in connection with a National Interfaith Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 20 November 1992 in the Kresge Auditorium of Stanford University.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, Enoch (Prophet)
"What, Exactly, Is the Purpose and Significance of the Facsimiles in the Book of Abraham?" Ensign, March 1976, 34–36.
Keywords: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Abraham (Prophet)
Qumran
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"Epilogue: Since Qumran." Improvement Era, July 1966, 636–38.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 1." Lectures Presented to an Honors Book of Mormon Class at Brigham Young University, 1988-1989.
Keywords: Book of Mormon
"Lecture 10 - Book of Mormon - Dead Sea Scrolls"
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Mormon
Old Testament and Related Studies (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 1). Edited by John W. Welch, Gary P. Gillum, and Don E. Norton. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986. xiv + 290 pp.
Abstract: In December 1832, the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”This collection of papers and lectures, many of which have never been published, includes papers on the earth before Adam, the historicity of the Bible, archaeology and religion, myths and the scriptures, patriarchy and matriarchy, apocryphal works, the message of Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran community, and other subjects, all in Dr. Nibley's fascinating and inimitable style.
Keywords: Joseph Smith, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah (Prophet), Bible, Old Testament
"Qumran and the Companions of the Cave." Revue de Qumran 5/2 (1965): 177–98.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Classics
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, September 1966, 794–95, 799–800, 802, 804–5.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, October 1966, 884–85.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, November 1966, 974–75, 1028–31.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"Since Cumorah (Since Qumran)." Improvement Era, December 1966, 1084–85, 1162–65.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
Since Cumorah: The Book of Mormon in the Modern World (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 7). Edited by John W. Welch. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988. xv + 512 pp.
Abstract: A hundred years ago, the Book of Mormon was regarded by the scholarly world as an odd text that simply did not fit their understanding of the ancient world. Since that time, however, numerous ancient records have come to light, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. These discoveries have forced scholars to change their views of history, and they place the Book of Mormon in a new light as well. That is why respected Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley wrote Since Cumorah, a brilliant literary, theological, and historical evaluation of the Book of Mormon as an ancient book.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Mormon
"Since Cumorah: New Voices from the Dust." A series of articles in the Improvement Era.
Abstract: The changing attitudes of biblical scholars toward basic questions about scripture allow room for claims made by the Book of Mormon. Discusses external evidences, the primitive church, Lehi, Zenos, the olive tree, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
"Since Qumran (continued)." Improvement Era, August 1966, 710–12.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"BYU Education Week lectures." delivered in the summer of 1965 at Oakland, California.
"The Dead Sea Scrolls"
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
"The Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Questions and Answers." Instructor, July 1963, 233–35.
Keywords: Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls
