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Nibley, Hugh W.

An Approach to the Book of Mormon

Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT

Maxwell Institute; Deseret Book

1988

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Originally published in 1957, An Approach to the Book of Mormon is Dr. Hugh Nibley’s classic work on the Book of Mormon. A gifted scholar with expertise in ancient languages, literature, and history, Nibley shows numerous details in the Book of Mormon narrative to be in accord with cultural traits of the Middle East.

He examines Lehi as a representative man of his time, the Jews and the caravan trade, Lehi’s Arab and Egyptian connections, politics in Jerusalem, the pioneer tradition, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha, Lehi’s dreams, proper names, Old World ritual in the New World, the Jaredite barges and shining stones, and many other fascinating topics.

By establishing the Book of Mormon securely in an ancient setting and historical framework, this pioneering study answers criticisms, illuminates the complexity and historical accuracy of the book, places it alongside the Bible and other great works of antiquity, and points the way for further research. [Publisher]

Book of Mormon, use and influence
Book of Mormon, literary context
Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon, historicity

188 Unexplainable Names : Book of Mormon Names No Fiction Writer Would Choose
A Backstory for the Brass Plates
Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as Historian
A Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon
Across Arabia with Lehi and Sariah : "Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth"
A Dream, a Rock, and a Pillar of Fire : Reading 1 Nephi 1
A Hermeneutic of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, and the Bible and Book of Mormon
A Modern Malleus maleficarum
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
An Introduction to the Relevance of and a Methodology for a Study of the Proper Names of the Book of Mormon
An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom
An Ordered Love : The Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, The Mormons, and The Oneida Community
An Other Testament : On Typology
Answering for His Order: Alma's Clash with the Nehors
Archaeological Trends and Book of Mormon Origins
'A Record in the Language of My Father' : Evidence of Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew in the Book of Mormon
A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features
A Study Relating Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon to Chiasmus in the Old Testament, Ugaritic Epics, Homer, and Selected Greek and Latin Authors
Beowulf and Nephi : A Literary View of the Book of Mormon
B. H. Roberts : Studies of the Book of Mormon
Biblical Seafaring and the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Language
Book of Mormon Minimalists and the NHM Inscriptions : A Response to Dan Vogel
By Study and Also by Faith : Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 27 March 1990
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
Cities and Lands in the Book of Mormon
Classics from the Past : Literary Style Used in Book of Mormon Insured Accurate Translation
"Common Sense" Meets the Book of Mormon : Source, Substance and Prophetic Disruption
Complexity, Consistency, Ignorance, and Probabilities
Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the Book of Mormon
Cosmic Urban Symbolism in the Book of Mormon
Critiquing the Critics of Joseph Smith
Demythicizing the Lamanites’ “Skin of Blackness”
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Evaluating the Sources of 2 Nephi 1:13-15 : Shakespeare and the Book of Mormon
Even unto Bloodshed : An LDS Perspective on War
FARMS and Its Contributions to the Study of the Book of Mormon: 1979–2011
Feasting on the Word : The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon
Fourth Nephi to Moroni : From Zion to Destruction
From Jerusalem to Zarahemla : Literary and Historical Studies of the Book of Mormon
“From the Catecombs of Egypt” : Latter-day Saint Engagement with Ancient Egypt and the Contest of Religious Identity
Game Theory, The Prisoner's Dilemma, and the Book of Mormon
Geography of the Book of Mormon
Girded about with a Lambskin
Girded about with a Lambskin
Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem
Glowing Stones in Ancient and Medieval Lore
Hebrew Idioms in the Small Plates of Nephi
How Many Nephites? : The Book of Mormon at the Bar of Demography
I, Nephi
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses
In Search of Lehi’s Trail
Isaiah 50–51, the Israelite Autumn Festivals, and the Covenant Speech of Jacob in 2 Nephi 6–10
Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
It Is OK Not to Have Every Answer : The Book of Mormon Onomastic Ending -(i)hah
Joseph Smith’s Response to Skepticism
Khor Rori: A Maritime Resources-Based Candidate for Nephi's Harbor
Killing Laban : The Birth of Sovereignty in the Nephite Constitutional Order
King Benjamin's Speech : "That Ye May Learn Wisdom"
Kingship, Democracy, and the Message of the Book of Mormon
Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
Lehi in the Samaria Papyri and on an Ostracon from the Shore of the Red Sea
Lehi in The Wilderness; 81 new documented evidences that The Book Of Mormon is a True History
Lehi's Altar and Sacrifice in the Wilderness
Lehi's Personal Record : Quest for a Missing Source
Lehi's Vision of the Tree of Life : Understanding the Dream as Visionary Literature
Light : A Masterful Symbol
Looking Over vs. Overlooking Native American Languages : Let's Void the Void
Mexicans, Tourism, and Book of Mormon Geography
Mormonism and the Temple : Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition
Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology
Mormons and Archaeology : An Outside View
Mosiah : The Complex Symbolism and Symbolic Complex of Kingship in the Book of Mormon
“Most Desirable Above All Things” : Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon
Nephi's Convincing of Christ through Chiasmus : Plain and Precious Persuading from a Prophet of God
Nephi's Outline
Nephi's Psalm : 2 Nephi 4 : 16-35 in the Light of Form-Critical Analysis
Nephite Culture and Society : Collected Papers
Nephite Kingship Reconsidered
No Middle Ground : The Debate over the Authenticity of the Book of Mormon
One Eternal Round
Paradigms Regained : A Survey of Margaret Barker's Scholarship and Its Significance for Mormon studies
Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture : Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Unconscious
Perspectives on Latter-day Saints Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief
Poetry in and about the Book of Mormon: A Review of Literature
Possible Lexical Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon (Words of Mormon-Moroni)
Preserved in Translation : Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon
Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon
Prophets, Pagans, and Papyri: The Jews of Greco-Roman Egypt and the Transmission of the Book of Abraham
Reclaiming Jacob
Revelations of the Restoration : A Commentary on the Doctrine & Covenants & Other Modern Revelations
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
Scriptural Theology
Second Witness : Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon
Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon
Service and Temple in King Benjamin's Speech
Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport :
Intellectual journeys of a Mormon academic
Since Cumorah
Since Cumorah : The Book of Mormon in the Modern World
Something to Move Mountains : The Book of Mormon in Hugh Nibley's Correspondence
Studies in Scripture
Survey : The Historiography of Mormonism
Tabernacles of Clay : Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Temple and Cosmos : Beyond this Ignorant Present
Temples of the Ancient World : Ritual and Symbolism
Testaments: Links Between the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew Bible
The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5
The Ancient Doctrine of the Two Ways and the Book of Mormon
The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition (book)
The Book of Mormon : Alma, the Testimony of the Word
The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books : Out of Darkness unto Light
The Book of Mormon as a Mesoamerican Codex
The Book Of Mormon As an Ancient Book
The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book and a Type of Christ
The Book of Mormon, Designed for Our Day
The Book of Mormon Reference Companion
The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days
The Book of Mosiah : Thoughts about Its Structure, Purposes, Themes, and Authorship
The Book, the Words of the Book : What the Book of Mormon Says about Its Own Coming Forth
The Children of Lehi and the Jews of Sepharad
The Covenant of the Chosen People: The Spiritual Foundations of Ethnic Identity in the Book of Mormon
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Mormon Perspective
The Death of Laban: A Literary Interpretation
The Disciple as Scholar : Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson
The Exodus of Lehi Revisited
The Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon
The Geography of the Book of Mormon Events : A Source Book
The Iliad and the Book of Mormon
The Lord Will Redeem His People: Adoptive Covenant and Redemption in the Old Testament and Book of Mormon
The Lost Commandment : The Sacred Rites of Hospitality
The Messiah in Ancient America
The "Mulekites"
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith
The Priority of Mosiah : A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis
The Psalm of Nephi: A Lyric Reading
The Rise and Fall of Korihor, a Zoramite : A New Look at the Failed Mission of an Agent of Zoram
The Sermon at the Temple and the Sermon on the Mount
The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture
The Spirituality of the Outcast in the Book of Mormon
The Temple in the Book of Mormon: The Temples at the Cities of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Bountiful
The Treaty/Covenant Pattern in King Benjamin's Address
The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon
The World of the Book of Mormon
Togetherness is sharing an umbrella : Diving Kingship, the Gnosis, and Religious Syncretism
Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon
Treaties and Covenants : Ancient Near Eastern Legal Terminology in the Book of Mormon
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
Violence and the Gospel : The Teachings of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Book of Mormon
War Banners : A Mesoamerican Context for the Title of Liberty
"We Did Again Take Our Journey"
What Does the Book of Mormon Teach? An Examination of the Histor-ical and Scientific Statements of the Book of Mormon
What's in a Name? Nephi
Who Was Second Nephi?
Who Was Sherem?
Withstanding Satan’s Siege through Christ’s Iron Rod: The Vision of the Tree of Life in Context of Ancient Siege Warfare
"Words Words Words" : Hugh Nibley on the Book of Mormon

A New Witness for Christ in America : Evidence of Divine Power in the "Coming Forth" of the Book of Mormon
History of the Prophet Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Smith
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites
Psychological Tests for the Authorship of the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon : Message and Evidences
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The World and the Prophets (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol 3)
Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen, mit Exkursen uber die Anfange des Islams and des Christentums