Item Detail
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27270
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English
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Siding with Heretics : Evaluating Hugh Nibley Today
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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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66-70
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Hugh Nibley's treatment of early Christianity helped transform Mormon scholarship by turning to the primary sources themselves. Even when the content of his argument and his depiction of early Christianity may not hold up, his approach remains instructive. "Preservation, Restoration, Reformation" is a chapter draft that was not published, so many of its shortcomings and errors may be attributed to its unfinished state. My comments focus specifically on this work. First, I point out some of these shortcomings but conclude with a discussion of what remains most vital in Nibley's approach for scholars working today. [From the text]