Eric Jay Olson

Eric Jay Olson, scripture re￾searcher, LDS Translation Division, Salt Lake City, Utah, Ph.D. candidate in Egyptology, University of Chicago, seventy; father of five children

A Hint of an Explanation | Hugh Nibley, The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: an Egyptian Endowment

Articles/Essays – Volume 09, No. 4

Dialogue 9.4 (Winter 1974): 74–75
Review of An Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley, which discusses the papyri that Joseph Smith allegedly used to help translate the Book of Abraham. Hugh Nibley decided to state his case, but allow readers to form their own conclusions after reading it.

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The Extremes of Eclecticism | Hugh Nibley, Abraham in Egypt

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 4

I approach a description of this latest book by Hugh Nibley with much hesitation. With Nibley, you buy a package that is as much image as content. He is either viewed as the exemplary scholar,…

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