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Hugh Nibley [off the record]
Category Archives: Ancient writings
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
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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Building on the Work of Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley’s groundbreaking work on ancient temples is bearing a bountiful new harvest among Latter-day Saint scholars. Continue reading
Social Peace through Enforced Conformity
They settled instead for the poor shabby philosophy of St. Augustine – sit tight, don’t ask questions, do like the rest do, and you will be at least as safe as anybody else. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Letters, Philosophy, War
Tagged Battle of Holland, Bridge too Far, Half-truth, History, Holland, Nazi philosophy, philosophy
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Clear Mirrors of the Celestial World
No matter how corrupt the world may become, the one who honestly searches can always find the true image of things as they were meant to be. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Letters, Philosophy
Tagged creation myth, legends, myth, mythology, New York Public Library
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In Spite of All the Folly of Man Can Do
In one thing we can take comfort: all that is happening today, within the church and without, comes exactly as prophesied. Continue reading
