Hugh Nibley

A Conversation With Hugh Nibley

The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: Phase One

Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)101 – 105
Even a casual reading of the Book of Abraham shows that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions—all these must be checked. So far we have heard what is wrong or at least suspect about the Book of Abraham, but as yet nobody has cared to report on the other side of the picture. It is for that we are saving our footnotes.

Responses and Perspectives: The Best Possible Test

Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 73–77
Responding to Bush, Hugh Nibley argues that it is God who chooses who he wants to ordain and who should be denied due to various reasons, hence the scripture “Many are called, but few are chosen.”

Treasures In the Heavens: Some Early Christian Insights into the Organizing of Worlds

The canonical writings and the apocrypha have a good deal to say about “treasures in the heavens.” If we compare the “treasures” passages in a wide sampling of these writings, including those of Qumran, Nag…

Bird Island

It will come as news to all Latter-day Saints that after many years of deep scholarly research the Hill Cumorah has finally been located—at the north end of Bird Island in Utah Lake. Those familiar…

Zeal Without Knowledge

In one of his fascinating scientific survey books, this time dealing with the latest discoveries about the brain, Nigel Calder notes, “Two of the most self-evident characteristics of the conscious mind are that 1) the mind attends to one thing at a time, and 2) that at least once a day the conscious mind is switched off.”

How Firm a Foundation! What Makes It So

This talk is supposed to have some reference to the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Restoration of the Church.  One hundred and fifty years is not as long as you think—the Lord has not delayed his…

Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift

Twenty-three years ago on this same occasion I gave the opening prayer in which I said: “We have met here today clothed in the black robes of a false priesthood … ” Many have asked…

Bird Island