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1978
Palmer, Spencer J., ed. Deity & Death. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.

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

Articles

Dredge, C. Paul. “What’s in a Funeral? Korean, American-Mormon and Jewish Rites Compared.” In Deity & Death, 3-32.
Hanna, Sami A. “Death and Dying in the Middle East.” In Deity & Death, 33–60.
Madsen, Truman G. “Distinctions in the Mormon Approach to Death and Dying.” In Deity & Death, 61–76.
Jones, Edward T. “A Comparative Study of Ascension Motifs in World Religions.” In Deity & Death, 79-106.
Jones, Gerald E. “Reverence for Life in Religion.” In Deity & Death, 107-20.
Katanuma, Seiji. “Why Are There So Many Gods in Japan?” In Deity & Death, 121-34.
Thompson, Laurence G. “Objectifying Divine Power.” In Deity & Death, 135-48.
Madsen, Truman G., ed. Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1978.

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

Articles

Madsen, Truman G. “Introductory Essay.” In Reflections on Mormonism.
Bellah, Robert N. “American Society and the Mormon Community.” In Reflections on Mormonism.
Winston, David. “Preexistence in Hellenic, Judaic, and Mormon Sources.” In Reflections on Mormonism.
Kaplan, Abraham. “The Meanings of Ritual: Comparisons.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 37-56.
Milgrom, Jacob. “The Temple in Biblical Israel.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 57-65.
Freedman, David Noel. “The Ebla Tablets and the Abraham Tradition.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 67-78.
Davies, W. D. “Israel, the Mormons and the Land.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 79-97.
Charlesworth, James H. “Messianism in the Pseudepigrapha and the Book of Mormon.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 99-137.
Stendahl, Krister. “The Sermon on the Mount and Third Nephi.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 139-54.
Cherbonnier, Edmond La Beaume. “In Defense of Anthropomorphism.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 155-74.
Dillenberger, John. “Grace and Works in Martin Luther and Joseph Smith.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 175-86.
Dillenberger, Jane. “Mormonism and American Religious Art.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 187-200.
Benz, Ernst W. “Imago Dei: Man in the Image of God.” In Reflections on Mormonism, 201-22.
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.

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

Chapters

Gillum, Gary P. “Hugh Nibley : Scholar of the Spirit, Missionary of the Mind.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Madsen, Truman G. “Foreword to the First Edition.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “An Intellectual Autobiography : Some High and Low Points.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “To Open the Last Dispensation : Moses Chapter 1.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Expanding Gospel.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Treasures in the Heavens.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Subduing the Earth : Man’s Dominion.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Genesis of the Written Word.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Sacrifice of Isaac.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Book of Mormon : A Minimal Statement.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Churches in the Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “The Haunted Wilderness.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Their Portrait of a Prophet.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Educating the Saints.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Nibley, Hugh W. “Beyond Politics.” In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
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.

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

Chapters

Neusner, Jacob. “Preface.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, i-xvi.
Brown, S. Kent. “Intoduction.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, xvii–xxi.
Neusner, Jacob. “‘The Glory of God Is Intelligence’ A Theology of Torah Learning in Judaism.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, 1-12.
Neusner, Jacob. “Cultic Piety and Pharisaism before 70 AD.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, 13-28.
Neusner, Jacob. “From Cultic Piety to Torah Piety after 70 AD.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, 29–40.
Neusner, Jacob. “The Mishnah as a Focus of Torah Piety.” In The Glory of God is Intelligence, 41–56.
Neusner, Jacob. “About the Author.” In The Glory of God Is Intelligence, 57-62.

Bibliographies

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