Category: Hugh Nibley
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Did Early Christians Perform Baptism for the Dead?
Circular Arguments, Plagiarism, and Dubious Extrapolation: The Patristic Evidence for Baptism for the Dead and its Misuse by LDS Apologists and General Authorities. By Ronald V. Huggins, Th.D. There is evidence that some form of baptism of or for the dead was practiced by three early Christian heresies: the Marcionites, the Cerinthians, and the Montanists.…
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Hugh Nibley’s Footnotes
By Ronald V. HugginsTh.D., Associate Professor of Theological & Historical Studies, Salt Lake Theological Seminary In her book Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith (2005), Martha Beck describes an encounter she had with a scholarly looking person in a supermarket who accuses her famous father, the quintessential LDS apologist…
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Jerald Tanner’s Quest for Truth – Part 2
By Ronald V. Huggins Jerald TannerJune 1959 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight…
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Solving the Mystery of the Joseph Smith Papyri
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner A book analyzing Joseph Smith’s translation of the “Book of Abraham” has caused a real stir in Utah. It is written by Charles M. Larson and is entitled, By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look At The Joseph Smith Papyri. We understand that before the book was offered…
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Ferguson’s Rejection of the Book of Mormon Verified
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our book, Ferguson’s Manuscript Unveiled, we presented a great deal of evidence showing that the noted Mormon scholar, Thomas Stuart Ferguson, became a complete unbeliever in the Book of Mormon during the last 12 or 13 years of his life. Notwithstanding the fact that there is a collection of…
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An Update on Fall of the Book of Abraham
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the Salt Lake City Messenger for March 1968, we announced the “FALL OF THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM.” Subsequently we published a number of books showing that Joseph Smith’s “Book of Abraham” had been proven untrue (see especially Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? pages 294-369). During the past few years we have…
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Nibley Fails to Save Book of Abraham
The top LDS apologist of the time is not able to translate the Book of Abraham papyri as the church had hoped.
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More Skeletons?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner After Joseph Smith’s death the Egyptian papyri, which were supposed to contain the books of Abraham and Joseph, were lost. In 1967, however, the Mormon Church announced the “discovery” of eleven pieces of this papyri at the Metropolitan Museum. Another fragment had also been preserved in the Church Historian’s Office,…
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Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1969 we published our book Archaeology and the Book of Mormon. On January 10, 1970, we received a letter from the Mormon Egyptologist, Dee Jay Nelson in which the following statements appeared: The booklets, The Mormon Kingdom and Archaeology and the Book of Mormon arrived in the mail today.…
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“Forfeiting the Game”?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In an article published in the New York Times, May 3, 1970, Wallace Turner wrote: SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 — The “Book of Abraham,” which provides the theological basis for the Utah Mormon churches excluding Negroes from its priesthood, has been described as “simply the product of Joseph Smith Jr.’s…