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Author Archives: Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley on the Power of Positive Thinking (sort of)
His ruly hair was kempt, for he was a couth and solute person, a transigent soul, and withal a man of effable ertia. Continue reading
Hand-in-Glove with the Persecutors of the Church
Notice where the church is always being fought…where the church has always received the most savage…resistance everywhere in the deep South. But…we are imitating the deep South here. We match Mississippi more closely than any other state in various things now: in our morality, in our politics, in our views of things, in our self-righteousness and in our intolerance. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics, War
Tagged anti-mormon, antimormon, LDS faith, LDS politics, Moral Majority, Morality, Mormon bashing, mormonism, The God Makers, Utah, Utah Politics
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Forty Easters Ago
It’s hard to remember Hugh Nibley getting angry in a discussion about religion. Usually he took attacks in stride and found them stimulating rather than making him lose his tempter. I had certainly never seen anything provoke such an immediate and negative response from him. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Culture, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged Cosic, Easter, Hopi, Hopi people, Hugh Nibley, Kresimir Cosic
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A Strange World in which East and West, Past and Present Intermingle
The Egyptians are so different from every other ancient people that one hardly knows what to make of them. They are the only people we know of who deliberately planned to convey in formation to other ages than their own. Continue reading
What is Worth Knowing in Comparison with Arabic?
I have taken up Persian. In three weeks I am able to read the stuff with greater ease than I could Arabic after 13 years! The irony of it – if we had been spending all that time on ANYthing but Arabic we could all be experts. But what can you suggest that is worth knowing in comparison with Arabic? Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy
Tagged Ancient language, Arab, Arab people, Arabic, Arabic language, Linguistics, Odysseus, Omar Kader, Pearl of Great Price
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Hugh Nibley, World’s Worst Politician
Only in the light of the acrimony of our recent ultra-polarized politics have I come to understand the lesson of the time I discovered my father was the world’s worst politician. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged democrat, Hugh Nibley, iBook, Joseph Smith, LDS Democrat, LDS politics, Mormon Democrat, mormon politics, Politics, republican, Richard Nixon, World War II
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Video: Christina Nibley Mincek Speaks at Hugh Nibley’s Funeral
Christina Nibley Mincek speaking at Hugh Nibley’s funeral. Hugh Nibley died eight years ago today, February 24, 2005. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged Bridal Veil Falls, Christina Mincek, Death, environmentalism, Hugh Nibley, Hugh Nibley Funeral, Kelly Richardson, mormonism, Nature, Provo Canyon, Utah, Wilhelm Kempff, Zion Canyon
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Nibley Goes Multimedia – Beyond Politics Available on the iBookstore
Hugh Nibley & Associates, a company owned by the family of the late Hugh Nibley, has released a multimedia eBook edition of his classic essay Beyond Politics with multimedia supplemental materials. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Bob Bennett, E-book, Hugh Nibley, iBook, IPad, LDS politics, mormon politics, mormonism, Politics, Sen. Robert Bennett, Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Senator Bennett
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The Book of Mormon – a Bedizzening Variety of Stuff
This whole apocryphal world is brought together in the B. of M., a veritable handbook of motifs and traditions. As a work of fiction, as a mere intellectual tour de force, nothing could touch it – but along with that it is full of old Jewish lore that very few Jews have ever heard of, handles the desert situation in a way that delights my Medcans, and gives a picture of primitive Christianity that is right out of the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Nag Hamadi texts. What a theme for a kid of 23 to attempt. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Education & Academia, Letters
Tagged Apocrypha, Babylonian, Book of Mormon, Canaanite, Coffin Texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Egyptian, Egyptian wisdom literature, Encyclopedia Judaica, Greek philosophy, James Joyce, Jew, Jewish, Jewish encyclopedia, Koran, Mormon scholarship, Moslem, Muslim, mythology, Old Testament, Quran, religion, religious scholarship, Shakespeare
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Mormon Times on Nibley’s Friendship with Basketball Legend Kresimir Cosic
The online version of this article, which appeared in print last Thursday, contains video clips from an interview with Cosic in 1983. The interview was conducted by Alex Nibley and Sterling Van Wagenen as they were working on the Hugh Nibley documentary film Faith of an Observer. Continue reading
