Research Catalog

Title

Temple and cosmos : beyond this ignorant present / Hugh Nibley ; edited by Don E. Norton ; illustrations directed by Michael P. Lyon.

Author

Nibley, Hugh, 1910-2005.

Publication

Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, ©1992.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Norton, Don E.

Description

xix, 597 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• The collected works of Hugh Nibley ; v. 12. Ancient history
• Nibley, Hugh, 1910-2005. Works. 1986 ; v. 12.

Subject

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Doctrines
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dead Sea scrolls
• Bible
• Dead Sea scrolls
• Temples
• Latter Day Saint temples
• Latter Day Saint churches > Doctrines
• Hermetism
• hermetism
• Hermetism
• Latter Day Saint churches > Doctrines
• Latter Day Saint temples
• Religion
• Temples
• Theology, Doctrinal
• Middle East > Religion
• North America > Religion
• Middle East
• North America

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The meaning of the temple -- Return to the temple -- Sacred vestments -- The circle and the square -- The expanding gospel -- Rediscovery of the Apocrypha and the Book of Mormon -- Apocryphal writings and teachings of the Dead Sea scrolls -- The terrible questions -- One eternal round : the hermetic version -- Do religion and history conflict? -- Genesis and the written word -- Science fiction and the gospel -- The best possible test -- Some notes on cultural diversity in the universal church -- From the earth upon which thou standest -- Foreword to Eugene England's book.

ISBN

• 0875795234
• 9780875795232

LCCN

91033320

OCLC

• ocm24628807
• 24628807
• SCSB-1944156

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library