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Madsen, Truman G., ed. Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Display Abstract  

This book is the result of the symposium of twelve renowned scholars at BYU on Judeo-Christian parallels. The contributors brought to the task a careful scrutiny of Mormon source materials, a patient application of their own special methods, and a sensitivity to modern commentaries and to ancient records discovered in recent decades. The striking comparisons, clarifications, and appraisals that result mark out ground for further scholarly research and provide a fascinating overview of these significant topics. ISBN 0-88494-358-5

ID = [33398]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 13  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:04

Articles

Madsen, Truman G. “Introductory Essay.” In Reflections on Mormonism, ed. Truman G. Madsen. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37132]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 18516  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Bellah, Robert N. “American Society and the Mormon Community.” In Reflections on Mormonism, ed. Truman G. Madsen. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37133]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 25076  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Winston, David. “Preexistence in Hellenic, Judaic, and Mormon Sources.” In Reflections on Mormonism, ed. Truman G. Madsen. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37134]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 52408  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Kaplan, Abraham. “The Meanings of Ritual: Comparisons.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 37–56. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Ordinances
ID = [37135]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 46248  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Milgrom, Jacob. “The Temple in Biblical Israel.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 57–65. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37136]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 19296  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Freedman, David Noel. “The Ebla Tablets and the Abraham Tradition.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 67–78. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Abraham and Sarah [see also Covenant]
RSC Topics > A — C > Book of Abraham
ID = [37137]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  abraham,old-test,rsc-books  Size: 26333  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Davies, W. D. “Israel, the Mormons and the Land.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 79–97. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37138]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 45140  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Charlesworth, James H. “Messianism in the Pseudepigrapha and the Book of Mormon.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 99–137. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
ID = [37139]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  bom,old-test,rsc-books  Size: 92154  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Stendahl, Krister. “The Sermon on the Mount and Third Nephi.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 139–54. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37140]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  bom,rsc-books  Size: 37163  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Cherbonnier, Edmond La Beaume. “In Defense of Anthropomorphism.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 155–74. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > God the Father
RSC Topics > G — K > Godhead
ID = [37141]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 42921  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Dillenberger, John. “Grace and Works in Martin Luther and Joseph Smith.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 175–86. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Grace
RSC Topics > Q — S > Restoration of the Gospel
ID = [37142]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28076  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Dillenberger, Jane. “Mormonism and American Religious Art.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 187–200. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37143]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 20674  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Benz, Ernst W. “Imago Dei: Man in the Image of God.” In Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. Truman G. Madsen, 201–22. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > A — C > Creation
RSC Topics > D — F > Doctrine
RSC Topics > G — K > God the Father
ID = [37144]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 49546  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Neusner, Jacob. The Glory of God is Intelligence: Four Lectures on the Role of Intellect in Judaism. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
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In this book’s four brilliant approaches to the Jewish stress on extending both the vision and the Law of Moses (Torah) to every phase of life, Jacob Neusner points to the kinships of the two traditions: Learning is a form of devotion to God. The Temple and its ritual exercise of purity was the common concern of the ancient Pharisees and was the most systematic Jewish attempt at intense symbolic infusion of intelligence and light. In the absence of the Temple, after AD 70 observant Jews sought to extend the temple purification process to their own homes and then restructured their ritual into “acts of loving-kindness” and patient study not only of the meaning but the structure of Torah. Today the Mishnah is the continual revelation “element” of Jewish study, open-ended and adaptive and bringing into focus the incidents and acts of all-inclusive religious life. ISBN 0-8849-4350-X

ID = [33400]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 7  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:04

Chapters

Neusner, Jacob. “Preface.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37161]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 4144  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Brown, S. Kent. “Intoduction.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37162]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8510  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Neusner, Jacob. “‘The Glory of God Is Intelligence’ A Theology of Torah Learning in Judaism.” In The Glory of God Is Intelligence: Four Lectures on the Role of Intellect in Judaism, 1–12. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
ID = [37163]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26855  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Neusner, Jacob. “Cultic Piety and Pharisaism before 70 AD.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, 13–28. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > War
ID = [37164]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 36252  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Neusner, Jacob. “From Cultic Piety to Torah Piety after 70 AD.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sacrifice
ID = [37165]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26215  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Neusner, Jacob. “The Mishnah as a Focus of Torah Piety.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > L — P > Learning
RSC Topics > T — Z > Worship
ID = [37166]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 32098  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Neusner, Jacob. “About the Author.” In The Glory of God Is Intelligence: Four Lectures on the Role of Intellect in Judaism, 57–62. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37167]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 8167  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Nibley, Hugh W. Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless: Classic Essays of Hugh W. Nibley. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
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The essays in this volume, including four on today’s world, were selected by a panel of Hugh Nibley’s colleagues. They are singular in their penetration, their originality, and their vitality. Reaching from the apocalyptic visions of original “treasures in heaven” down to the climax of history, they are more than mind-stretching. The delight of Nibley’s brilliant and sometimes biting prose style imparts a sense of the agelessness of what he calls the “three-act play” of human existence. Written specially for this book, the author’s own “intellectual autobiography,” together with his introductory paragraphs for the various chapters, complete the work of making the book a fitting and permanent record of one of the past outstanding historians. The text available here is from the 2nd edition published in 2004. It is available only in PDF format. ISBN 0-8849-4338-0

Keywords: Abraham (Prophet); Adam (Prophet); Ancient Near East; Angel; Apocalypse of Abraham; Apocrypha; Biography; Cain; Christianity; Combat of Adam; Creation; Curriculum; Deliverance; Didache; Divine Council; Doctrine; Dominion; Early Church History; Education; Enoch (Prophet); Enuma Elish; Expanding Gospel; Gospel; Intelligence; Isaac; Israel; Joseph; Jr.; Knowledge; Language; Law of Substitution; Moses (Prophet); Name; Noah (Prophet); Opposition; Ordinance; Plan of Salvation; Prophet; Qumran; Resurrection; Revelation; Ritual; Sacrifice; Satan; Scripture; Sermon; Smith; Suffering Servant; Temple; Translation; Treasure; Veil; Wilderness; Wisdom; Writing; Zeal
Topics:    Book of Mormon Scriptures > Ether
ID = [33399]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  abraham,bom,nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 15  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:04

Chapters

Gillum, Gary P. “Hugh Nibley : Scholar of the Spirit, Missionary of the Mind.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37145]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Madsen, Truman G. “Foreword to the First Edition.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37146]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “An Intellectual Autobiography : Some High and Low Points.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37147]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “To Open the Last Dispensation : Moses Chapter 1.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37148]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Expanding Gospel.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37149]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Treasures in the Heavens.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    Old Testament Topics > Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [including intertestamental books and the Dead Sea Scrolls]
ID = [37150]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,old-test,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Subduing the Earth : Man’s Dominion.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37151]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “Genesis of the Written Word.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37152]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Sacrifice of Isaac.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37153]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:16
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Book of Mormon : A Minimal Statement.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37154]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  bom,nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Nibley, Hugh W. “Churches in the Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37155]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Haunted Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37156]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Nibley, Hugh W. “Their Portrait of a Prophet.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37157]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Nibley, Hugh W. “Educating the Saints.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37158]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Nibley, Hugh W. “Beyond Politics.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
ID = [37160]  Status = Type = book chapter  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  nibley,rsc-books  Size:   Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:17
Palmer, Spencer J., ed. Deity & Death. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Display Abstract  

This book is about two fundamental realities: Death, “the supreme crisis of life,” and Deity, the supreme power in life. These subjects are explored in seven chapters which were originally presented as papers at BYU Religious Studies Center’s first symposium on comparative world religion. The reader will find compelling interest in the book’s wide-ranging perspectives in Asian and Western countries which bear directly upon our understanding of ourselves and of the society in which we live. ISBN 0-88494-342-9

ID = [33397]  Status = Type = book  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size:   Children: 7  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:31:04

Articles

Dredge, C. Paul. “What’s in a Funeral? Korean, American-Mormon and Jewish Rites Compared.” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer, 3–32. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37125]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 64538  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Hanna, Sami A. “Death and Dying in the Middle East.” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37126]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 56536  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Madsen, Truman G. “Distinctions in the Mormon Approach to Death and Dying.” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > D — F > Death
ID = [37127]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 28671  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Jones, Edward T. “A Comparative Study of Ascension Motifs in World Religions.” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer, 79–106. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > G — K > Heaven
RSC Topics > G — K > Hell
RSC Topics > L — P > Prophets
RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37128]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 56978  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Jones, Gerald E. “Reverence for Life in Religion.” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer, 107–20. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37129]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 27091  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Katanuma, Seiji. “Why Are There So Many Gods in Japan?” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer, 121–34. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > Q — S > Sin
RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37130]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 25264  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15
Thompson, Laurence G. “Objectifying Divine Power.” In Deity & Death, ed. Spencer J. Palmer, 135–48. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Topics:    RSC Topics > T — Z > World Religions
ID = [37131]  Status = Type = book article  Date = 1978-01-01  Collections:  rsc-books  Size: 26209  Children: 0  Rebuilt: 7/22/24 10:34:15

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