Appreciating And Simplifying Hugh Nibley

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Simplifying & Appreciating Hugh Nibley's Scholarship: New Podcast Series (#1)

Here is the first in a new series of podcasts simplifying and appreciating Hugh Nibley's scholarship, concentrating on his two most difficult books, Abraham in Egypt, and The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri.

http://www.backyardprofessor.com/the_backy...ifying_app.html

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Well thank you! I just produced 2 more today, so thats 3 for your listening pleasure......

Here's my discussion of chapters 1, 2 in "Abraham in Egypt." It's a FUN chapter!

http://backyardprofessor.typepad.com/the_backyard_professor/

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[Chris Smith]

Kerry,

The Margaret Barker podcast on your site doesn't work. It also says it's the second in a series, but I can't find the first.

-CK

[e=mc2]

How do you mean it doesn't work? It just won't play or something? Thanks for the alert, I shall check into it.

[Chris Smith]

Yeah, it's only 90 KB and it won't play.

[e=mc2]

Thanks. I'll check it out. Oh hey, which one? Thanks.

[Chris Smith]

The filename is margaretbarker.mp3.

By the way, your interviews with Brian Hauglid and Roger Cook were very interesting. I definitely need to get the Tvedtnes Early Traditions volume on Abraham. Roger Cook commented that Paul's statement on women can be explained by appeal to the Dead Sea Scrolls. I'm not so sure; Paul seems to be assuming something more than just the fact that angels-are-among-us. He's also assuming something about how "angels" react to head coverings. I don't know for sure what that was, but whatever it was, it seems to have been common knowledge, because he doesn't explain himself. Perhaps he was referring to the common superstitions that demons enter through the top of the head, and that women are more susceptible to demonic possession than men. When I suggested this in my Corinthians class, the professor was a little stunned and said, "yes, those were common traditions, but as a Christian I would find such a reading highly problematic." I find it unsettling, but not highly problematic. Paul was a human being who lived in a climate of human superstition, and wise though he was, I hardly expect him to have been perfect. Actually, I must confess that I would be a little relieved if his head-covering injunctions could be explained as the product of a superstition. That would mean he wasn't getting this from God, and we could discard it.

-CK

[Hawkmoon]

Simplifying & Appreciating Hugh Nibley's Scholarship: New Podcast Series (#1)

Why? What's the point? After all we already know that Nibley was a second-rate scholar whose footnotes were embarrassing to say the least. Am I missing something?

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Nope, yer right on target Hawkmoon..... and don't forget, the FARMS Boys, follow suit, with the extra free addition of being mean, *nasty*, and addicted to ad hominininim argumentationals instead of dealing with substantials of scholarship.

Thanks for letting me know about the Barker podcast CK. Interesting thoughts also on Roger Cooks idea from the scrolls.

Best,

Kerry

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I now have podcast 4 up also.

Here is the discussion and analysis of Chapter 3 in Nibley's book Abraham in Egypt. This chapter set forth what the scholarship of ancient Egyptian understanding was according to Egyptologists, and how Nibley shows the Book of Abraham story also fits in with the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian "Paradigmatic initiation" rituals of Mesopotamia and Egypt, as the scholars pronounced the connections. Nibley, unlike many Book of Abraham critics, actually works with the scholarly, established methods of showing the Sitz im Leben and provenance of the literatures.

http://backyardprofessor.typepad.com/the_backyard_professor/