By Hugh Nibley
Readers of An method of the publication of Mormon, the 6th quantity within the amassed Works of Hugh Nibley, will locate erudite and occasionally unforeseen insights into this publication of scripture - as evidenced by means of this excerpt from the preface to the 1964 variation. (p.xii-xiii)
When in 1946 this author composed a bit treatise referred to as Lehi within the desolate tract from constrained fabrics then to be had in Utah, he had by no means knowingly set eyes on a true Arab. in the final 5 years Aneze tribesmen and voters of Mecca, together with even publications to the Holy areas, were his scholars, in Provo, of all locations, whereas Utah has without notice been enriched with a powerful Arabic library, because of the encouraged efforts of Professor Aziz Atiya of the collage of Utah. as though it weren't adequate for the mountain to come back to Mohammed, these sons of the wilderness who got here to Provo came upon themselves taking a required classification within the booklet of Mormon from the compiler of this guide. obviously he was once greater than curious to determine how those younger males might react to the ebook of Mormon therapy of wilderness topics, and invited or even required them to record frankly on their impressions. to this point, with just one exception, no fault has been discovered with Nephi on technical grounds. the only exception merits the eye of all would-be critics of the ebook of Mormon.
It was once within the first-class ever held in "Book of Mormon for close to japanese Students," and the semester had slightly began whilst after all we ran smack into the tale of ways Nephi came across Laban lifeless under the influence of alcohol in a depressing alley and bring to an end his head - a grisly story that upsets Nephi himself in telling it. As we rehearsed the somber episode, i'll become aware of obvious indicators of annoyance one of the Arab scholars - whispered comments, head-shakings, and frowns of dissent. eventually, towards the top of the hour, a sensible younger guy from Jordan may possibly carry out now not. "Mr. Nibley," he stated, it seems that conversing for the others, "there is something incorrect right here. It does not sound correct. Why did this Nephi wait goodbye to chop off Laban's head?" due to the fact that I were anticipating the regimen protests of outrage and disgust with which Western critics react to the Laban tale, i used to be surprised by means of this shock assault - shocked with a brand new perception into the publication of Mormon as a message from one other age and one other culture.
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Surely some confusion enters here. It is of the very nature of Christianity that it claims to be a final revelation, and . . " ^14. Charles S. Braden, The Scriptures of Mankind (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 482. ^15. , 477-84; emphasis added. Braden's own uncertainty is apparent from the fact that while treating Joseph Smith's Inspired Translation of the Bible at considerable length, he has almost nothing to say about the Book of Mormon, an infinitely more ambitious and significant work. In the same spirit, Henry J.
The one is merely a filing clerk, who has been told to look something up and does it—the other is a person of normal intelligence who in the light of what he knows about the Book of Mormon (the only ancient text in a modern language) can decide for himself when anything significant is being conveyed. By far the most important area in which the Book of Mormon is to be tested is in the reader's own heart. The challenge of Moroni 10:4 is by no means unscientific; every man must build his own structure of the universe but in so doing must forego the prerogative, reserved by God alone, of calling his own work good.
4 Five hundred years of textual criticism have shown the futility of trying to judge ancient writings by the standards of modern taste, or of assuming that any ancient document is a forgery before it has been tested. Yet today the literary condemn the Book of Mormon as not being up to the standards of English literature that appeal to them, social scientists condemn it because it fails to display an evolutionary pattern of history, and the exponents of pure thought are disgusted with it because it entirely ignores the heritage of medieval scholasticism and fails to display the Victorian meliorism which should be the mark of any nineteenth century history of humanity.
