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1950
Bell, Albert W. The Mighty Drama of Israel and the Jew. Salt Lake City: Stevens and Wallis, 1950.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Judah and the Jews
ID = [29713]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1950-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:29
Reid, Rose Marie. Attention Israel. N.p., 1950.
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Scattering and gathering of Israel

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Israel, Scattering and Gathering
ID = [30038]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1950-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
West, Franklin L. Discovering the Old Testament. Salt Lake City: L.D.S. Department of Education, 1950.
Display Abstract  

Textbook with review questions

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Old Testament: Overviews and Manuals
ID = [30096]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1950-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Widtsoe, John A. “Who Are the Children of Abraham?” Improvement Era 53, no. 11, November 1950, 870–71.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Covenant [see also Ephraim, Israel, Jews, Joseph]
ID = [67533]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1950-11-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
1951
Rasmussen, Ellis T. “Textual Parallels to the Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Commandments as Found in the Bible.” Master’s thesis, BYU, 1951.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Restoration and Joseph Smith
ID = [67940]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1951-01-01  Collections:  d-c,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:45
Nibley, Hugh W. “G-2 Report, No. 8 Introduction: ‘An Age of Discovery’ and ‘Old Testament’” 7 and 8 pp. s.s., n.d.
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A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences. This report includes excerpts from the Expository Times by Nibley in the form of a G-2 Report. 14 pages, s.s., 1984. Most excerpts deal with the state of Christianity in 1983 and 1984.
““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

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

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Bible > Old Testament
ID = [1860]  Status = Type = unpublished  Date = 1951-01-02  Collections:  nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:12
Nibley, Hugh W. “G-2 Report, Old Testament.” 8 pp. s.s., n.d.
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A series of handouts prepared in the fifties and early sixties for distribution to various audiences.
““Years ago, it was my custom to communicate to the General Authorities in an occasional brash and self-appointed newsletter (called a ‘G-2 Report’) items of interest dealing with new discoveries which I considered significant. My boldness was not ill-received.” —Quoting a letter from Nibley to Elder Bruce R. McConkie, 2 October 1979.

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

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Bible > Old Testament
ID = [1861]  Status = Type = unpublished  Date = 1951-01-02  Collections:  nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:12
Smith, Iola Kimball. “King Solomon’s Desert.” Improvement Era 54, no. 5, May 1951, 335, 346.
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A comparison of the building of Solomon’s temple with the Saints’ building of the Salt Lake Temple

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Samuel
Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
ID = [67534]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1951-05-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
1952
Fitzgerald, H. Alvah. Teachings of the Old Testament. Salt Lake City: Deseret Sunday School Union Board, 1952.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Old Testament: Overviews and Manuals
ID = [39726]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1952-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:40:38
Sperry, Sidney B. The Voice of Israel’s Prophets: A Latter-day Saint Interpretation of the Major and Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1952.
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An edited version of The Message of the Twelve Prophets along with additional commentary on the Major Prophets

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Prophets and Prophecy
ID = [30074]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1952-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Welker, Roy A. Spiritual Values of the Old Testament. Salt Lake City: L.D.S. Department of Education, 1952.
Display Abstract  

Commentary on the Old Testament with study questions

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Old Testament: Overviews and Manuals
ID = [30095]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1952-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Smith, Eldred G. “Patriarchal Order of the Priesthood.” Delivered at the Friday Afternoon Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 1952.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Priesthood
ID = [26864]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1952-04-01  Collections:  general-conference,old-test  Size: 14607  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:11
Smith, Eldred G. “Patriarchal Order of the Priesthood.” Improvement Era 55, no. 6, June 1952, 425–26.
Display Abstract  

Includes a description of patriarchal blessings

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Priesthood
ID = [67537]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1952-06-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Haggerty, Charles E. “Melchizedek—King of Salem.” Improvement Era 55, no. 7, July 1952, 512–14.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Melchizedek
ID = [67536]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1952-07-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Haggerty, Charles E. “Melchizedek—King of Salem, Part 2.” Improvement Era 55, no. 8, August 1952, 582, 598–603.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Melchizedek
ID = [67535]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1952-08-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
1953
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph.” A series of articles in Improvement Era in 5 parts running from Jan 1953 through May 1953.
Display Abstract  

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

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Bible > Old Testament > Characters > Ezekiel
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [868]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 5  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16

Articles

Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 1: The Doctors Disagree.” In The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series, Improvement Era 56, no. 1 (January 1953): 16–17, 38–41.
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The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.
“Demonstrates not only that
our interpretation of Ezekial 37:15ff is
a possible one—for there are many
possibilities—but that it is also the
one most likely intended by the
Prophet Ezekiel. “

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [869]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 21764  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 2: What Were the Sticks?” In The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series, Improvement Era 56, no. 2 (February 1953): 90–91, 123–27.
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The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.
A look at what the sticks of Judah and Joseph were or what they referred to.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [870]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley,old-test  Size: 29531  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 3.” In The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series, Improvement Era 56, no. 3 (March 1953): 150–52, 191–95.
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This talked about how the dead received baptism.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [871]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 33926  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Part 4.” In The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series, Improvement Era 56, no. 4 (April 1953): 250, 267.
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The Improvement Era was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1970.
A discussion of the stick of Judah and the stick of Joseph as scepters.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [872]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 8037  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Conclusion.” In The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series, Improvement Era 56, no. 5 (May 1953): 331–32, 334, 336, 338, 341, 343, 345.
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A conclusion to the Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph series.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Criticisms and Apologetics
ID = [873]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,nibley  Size: 33613  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Stick of Judah.” Improvement Era 56, no. 1, January 1953, 16–17, 38–41.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [67542]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  improvement-era,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Skousen, W. Cleon. The First 2000 Years. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1953.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > History
Old Testament Topics > Old Testament: Overviews and Manuals
ID = [30061]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1953-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph.” Improvement Era 56, no. 2, February 1953, 90–91, 123–27.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [67541]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-02-01  Collections:  bom,improvement-era,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph, Part 2.” Improvement Era 56, no. 3, March 1953, 150–52, 191–95.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [67543]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-03-01  Collections:  improvement-era,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph, Part 3.” Improvement Era 56, no. 4, April 1953, 250, 266–67.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [67539]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-04-01  Collections:  improvement-era,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Sperry, Sidney B. “Ancient Temples and Their Uses.” Improvement Era 56, no. 4, April 1953, 230–31, 254–64.
Display Abstract  

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

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle
ID = [67538]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-04-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph, Part 4.” Improvement Era 56, no. 5, May 1953, 331–44.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Bible: LDS Interpretation
Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
ID = [67544]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-05-01  Collections:  improvement-era,nibley,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “The Marriage of Abraham, Joseph, and Moses to Egyptian Women.” Improvement Era 56, no. 12, December 1953, 906.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Topics > Marriage
Old Testament Topics > Plural Marriage
Old Testament Topics > Priesthood
Old Testament Topics > Women in the Old Testament
ID = [67540]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1953-12-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
1954
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham.” Improvement Era 57, no. 1, January 1954, 19–21, 34–35.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67548]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Richards, A. LeGrand. Israel! Do You Know?. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1954.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Israel, Scattering and Gathering
ID = [30040]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Smith, Joseph Fielding. Man: His Origin and Destiny. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1954.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Creation
ID = [30065]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Wadley, Angelyn W. “Teaching Helps and the Mutual Improvement Association.” In Ten Commandments Today. Salt Lake City: General Board of the Mutual Improvement Associations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1954.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Topics > Teaching the Old Testament
ID = [67897]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1954-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:43
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham, Part 2.” Improvement Era 57, no. 2, February 1954, 90–91, 121–24.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67547]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-02-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham, Part 3.” Improvement Era 57, no. 3, March 1954, 165–68.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67550]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-03-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham, Part 4.” Improvement Era 57, no. 4, April 1954, 238–39, 272–75.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67545]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-04-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham, Part 5.” Improvement Era 57, no. 5, May 1954, 310–11, 334–41.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67551]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-05-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham, Part 6.” Improvement Era 57, no. 6, June 1954, 386–87, 459–62.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67549]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-06-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
Kimball, Stanley B. “In the Steps of Abraham, Part 7.” Improvement Era 57, no. 8, August 1954, 566–67, 605.
Display Abstract  

A travel journal of many Bible lands

Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67546]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1954-08-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:27
1955
M. I. A. General Board. The Ten Commandments Today: A Discussion of the Decalog. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1955.
Display Abstract  

Essays by Church leaders

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Topics > Ten Commandments
ID = [30086]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1955-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Wright, Herbert C. “A Study of Certain Typological References to the Atonement Found in Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers.” Master’s thesis, BYU, 1955.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Scriptures > Exodus
Old Testament Scriptures > Numbers
Old Testament Topics > Types and Symbols
ID = [67941]  Status = Type = thesis  Date = 1955-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:45
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “Was Temple Work Done in the Days of the Old Prophets?” Improvement Era 58, no. 11, November 1955, 794.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle
ID = [67552]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1955-11-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Sperry, Sidney B. “Some Thoughts concerning Ancient Temples and Their Functions.” Improvement Era 58, no. 11, November 1955, 814–16, 826–27.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle
ID = [67553]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1955-11-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
1956
Nibley, Hugh W. “Epic Milieu in the Old Testament.” In There Were Jaredites series, Improvement Era 59, no. 10 (October 1956): 710–12, 745–51.
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Reprinted in Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley vol. 5.
Discussions of the book of Enoch and its relationship to the Book of Abraham and other ancient texts and folklore.

Topics:    Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Peoples > Jaredites
ID = [912]  Status = Type = church article  Date = 1956-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bmc-archive,bom,nibley,old-test  Size: 42471  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:09:18
Yates, Thomas J. Origin and Brief History of Nations. Salt Lake City: Paragon Press, 1956.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Israel, Scattering and Gathering
ID = [30103]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1956-01-01  Collections:  old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “The Twelve Tribes of Israel.” Improvement Era 59, no. 4, April 1956, 222–23.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Israel, Scattering and Gathering
ID = [67554]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1956-04-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Green, Doyle L. “Jesus Christ—the God of the Old Testament.” Improvement Era 59, no. 9, September 1956, 636–38, 654.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Jesus Christ, the God of the Old and the New Testament
ID = [67557]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1956-09-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Morris, George Q. “The Origin of Man.” Delivered at the Saturday Morning Session of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1956.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Creation
ID = [27147]  Status = Type = talk  Date = 1956-10-01  Collections:  general-conference,old-test  Size: 11527  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:41:13
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men.” Improvement Era 59, no. 11, November 1956, 782, 879.
Display Abstract  

An explanation of Genesis 6:1–2

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
ID = [67556]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1956-11-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Morris, George Q. “The Origin of Man.” Improvement Era 59, no. 12, December 1956, 933–35.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Creation
ID = [67555]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1956-12-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
1957
Nibley, Hugh W. “Lesson 16 - The Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon.” In An Approach to the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1957.
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In this work the Book of Mormon is seen in a new perspective; we see it in a world setting, not in a mere local one. It takes its place naturally alongside the Bible and other great works of antiquity and becomes one of them.
In the light of the Dead Sea Scrolls, all the Apocryphal writings must be read again with a new respect. Today the correctness of the 91st Section of the Doctrine and Covenants as an evaluation of the Apocrypha is vindicated with the acceptance of an identical view by scholars of every persuasion, though a hundred years ago, the proposition set forth in the Doctrine and Covenants seemed preposterous. What all the apocryphal writings have in common with each other and with the scriptures is the Apocalyptic or eschatological theme. This theme is nowhere more fully and clearly set forth than in the Book of Mormon. Fundamental to this theme is the belief in a single prophetic tradition handed down from the beginning of the world in a series of dispensations but hidden from the world in general and often confined to certain holy writings. Central to the doctrine is the Divine Plan behind the creation of the world that is expressed in all history and revealed to holy prophets from time to time. History unfolds in repeating cycles in order to provide all men with a fair and equal test in the time of their probation. Every dispensation, or “Visitation,” it was taught, is followed by an apostasy and a widespread destruction of the wicked, and ultimately by a refreshing or a new visitation.

Keywords: Apocalypticism; Apocrypha; Apostasy; Plan of Salvation
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
ID = [1677]  Status = Type = Church Article  Date = 1957-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,d-c,nibley,old-test  Size: 31182  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:04
Nibley, Hugh W. “Lesson 24 - Ezekiel 37:15–23 as Evidence for the Book of Mormon.” In An Approach to the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1957.
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In this work the Book of Mormon is seen in a new perspective; we see it in a world setting, not in a mere local one. It takes its place naturally alongside the Bible and other great works of antiquity and becomes one of them.
The Latter-day Saint claim that Ezekiel’s account of the Stick of Joseph and the Stick of Judah is a clear reference to the Book of Mormon has, of course, been challenged. There is no agreement among scholars today as to what the prophet was talking about, and so no competing explanation carries very great authority. The ancient commentators certainly believed that Ezekiel was talking about books of scripture, which they also identify with a staff or rod. As scepters and rods of identification the Two Sticks refer to Judah and Israel or else to the Old Testament and the New. But in this lesson, we present the obvious objections to such an argument. The only alternative is that the Stick of Joseph is something like the Book of Mormon. But did the ancient Jews know about the Lord’s people in this hemisphere? The Book of Mormon says they did not, but in so doing specifies that it was the wicked from whom that knowledge was withheld. Hence it is quite possible that it was had secretly among the righteous, and there is actually some evidence that this was so.

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Ezekiel
Old Testament Topics > Book of Mormon and the Old Testament
Hugh W. Nibley Topics > Book of Mormon > Ancient Near East
ID = [1686]  Status = Type = Church Article  Date = 1957-01-01  Collections:  bmc-archive,bom,nibley,old-test  Size: 36150  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:10:05
Smith, Joseph Fielding. Elijah: The Prophet and His Mission. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > 1 & 2 Kings/1 & 2 Chronicles
Old Testament Topics > Elijah
ID = [30064]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1957-01-01  Collections:  old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:48:38
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “Multiply and Replenish.” Improvement Era 60, no. 2, February 1957, 78–79.
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An explanation of the Hebrew root behind “replenish” in Genesis 1:28

Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Adam and Eve [see also Fall]
ID = [67560]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1957-02-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Palmer, Hoyt. “The Message of the Book of Job.” Improvement Era 60, no. 4, April 1957, 239, 263–67.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Job
ID = [67558]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1957-04-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Sperry, Sidney B. “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Significance for Latter-day Saints.” Improvement Era 60, no. 12, December 1957, 910–13, 970.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
ID = [67559]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1957-12-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
1958
Sperry, Sidney B. “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Significance for Latter-day Saints, Part 2.” Improvement Era 61, no. 1, January 1958, 32–33, 48–49.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
ID = [67564]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1958-01-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “How are the nations of the earth blessed through Abraham and his seed?” Improvement Era 61, no. 2, February 1958, 80–81, 116.
Topics:    Old Testament Scriptures > Genesis
Old Testament Topics > Covenant [see also Ephraim, Israel, Jews, Joseph]
ID = [67563]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1958-02-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “Is baptism for the remission of sins an ordinance of the gospel binding on the world from the time of the Savior only, or was it also required in earlier dispensations?” Improvement Era 61, no. 4, April 1958, 224–25, 261.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Baptism
ID = [67561]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1958-04-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “Was temple work done for the dead in Old Testament times?” Improvement Era 61, no. 8, August 1958, 576–77.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Temple and Tabernacle
ID = [67562]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1958-08-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
Smith, Joseph Fielding. “Biblical Evidence That Joseph Smith Was Called of God.” Improvement Era 61, no. 11, November 1958, 808–9, 873–74.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Restoration and Joseph Smith
ID = [67565]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1958-11-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test,smith-joseph-fielding  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28
1959
Rogers, Lewis M. “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Original Christianity.” Brigham Young University Studies 1, no. 1 (1959): 68.
ID = [10030]  Status = Type = journal article  Date = 1959-01-01  Collections:  byu-studies,old-test  Size: 3089  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 8/5/24 7:12:54
Sill, Sterling W. “We Believe the Bible.” Improvement Era 62, no. 12, December 1959, 952–53.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Old Testament: Overviews and Manuals
ID = [67566]  Status = Type = magazine article  Date = 1959-12-01  Collections:  improvement-era,old-test  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 11:02:28

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