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English
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A Dark Well : An Editorial Introduction to Nibley's View from the Top
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Studies in the Bible and Antiquity
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7
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship; Brigham Young University
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1-21
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A generation ago, when Nibley wrote [an unpublished manuscript titled "The End of What?"], he was, very nearly, the only Mormon scholar engaged in the serious study of early and medieval Christianity. Today such Mormon historians number perhaps a score and are now beginning to reassess Nibley within the context of contemporary scholarship and modern Mormon inquiry. Certainly Nibley posed distinctively Mormon questions that still inform Mormon readings of Christian history. At the same time, as shown by Daniel Becerra and Taylor Petrey, each new generation must do as Nibley did and engage its own unique questions. [From the text]