Hugh Winder Nibley (March 27, 1910 – February 24, 2005) was an American scholar and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who was a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) for nearly 50 years. He was a prolific author, and wrote apologetic works supporting the archaeological, linguistic, and historical claims of Joseph Smith. He was a member of the LDS Church, and wrote and lectured on LDS scripture and doctrinal topics, publishing many articles in the LDS Church magazines.
Nibley was born in Portland, Oregon, and his family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1921, where Nibley attended middle school and high school. Nibley served an LDS mission in Germany, where he learned German. After his mission, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated in 1934. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 1938. He taught various subjects at Claremont Colleges until he enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, where he was trained as an intelligence officer.
Nibley became a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1946, where he taught foreign languages and Christian church history. He continued to study Egyptian and Coptic, and became the figurehead of the Institute for Ancient Studies at BYU in 1973. During his professorship, Nibley wrote articles for scholarly publications and for official LDS Church publications. Nibley published multiple series of articles in the Improvement Era as well as An Approach to the Book of Mormon, which was the lesson manual for Melchizedek priesthood lessons in 1957. Nibley also published a response to the Joseph Smith Papyri as well as other articles on the Pearl of Great Price. In addition to Nibley's church publications, he also published social commentary, often aimed at LDS culture. Nibley's work is controversial. Kent P. Jackson and Douglas F. Salmon have argued that the parallels Nibley finds between ancient culture and LDS works are selective or imprecise. Nibley's defenders like Louis C. Midgley and Shirley S. Ricks argue that his parallels are meaningful.
Hugh Nibley's son Alex organized a documentary on Hugh entitled Faith of an Observer. Hugh Nibley's complete works were published jointly by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and Deseret Book. Around the time of Nibley's death in 2005, his daughter Martha Beck published a memoir where she claimed to have recovered repressed memories of Nibley sexually abusing her. Immediate family members and some book reviewers of Beck's memoirs considered her claims to be false.
^Moore, Carrie A. (February 26, 2005). "Revered LDS scholar Hugh Nibley dies at 94". Deseret Morning News. Archived from the original on April 3, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
Hugh Winder Nibley (March 27, 1910 – February 24, 2005) was an American scholar and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)...
master's, and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of HughNibley, a deceased scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
5:31 footnote d; Brown 1997, p. 148. HughNibley, Ancient Documents and the Pearl of Great Price, p. 12. Nibley suggests that the word "Master" is not...
Sloan Nibley (June 23, 1908 – April 3, 1990) was an American screenwriter. He was the older brother of famed Latter Day Saint scholar HughNibley. Born...
(Egyptian), Coptic (Egyptian), Mayan/Olmec, and Irish ogham ciphers. HughNibley argued that a "revealed text in English" is preferable to trying to understand...
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portions bore no relation to the Book of Abraham text. LDS apologist HughNibley and Brigham Young University Egyptologists John L. Gee and Michael D...
Latin). Vol. 4.[full citation needed] Doctrine and Covenants 107:57 Nibley, Hugh (1986). Enoch the Prophet. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book. ISBN 978-0-87579-047-3...
England, Eugene (1990). "HughNibley as Cassandra". BYU Studies Quarterly. 30 (4): 104–116 – via BYU ScholarsArchive. HughNibley, An Approach to the Book...
McConkie, Bruce R. (June 1982), "Christ and the Creation", Ensign: 9. Nibley, Hugh (1975), The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment...
HughNibley; Todd M. Compton and Stephen D. Ricks, editors; Mormonism and Early Christianity; Deseret Book; ISBN 0-87579-127-1 (Hardcover, 1987) Hugh...
catalogued in the Church archives. These folder numbers were assigned by HughNibley ca. 1971. The order given below mirrors the authoritative Joseph Smith...
in Ancient Scripture (1977), and a PhD in Ancient Studies (1981) with HughNibley as chair. During his academic years, Gileadi taught Hebrew, Religion...
Taylor, B. H. Roberts, and James E. Talmage, and modern figures, such as HughNibley, Daniel C. Peterson, John L. Sorenson, John Gee, Orson Scott Card, and...
(1909–1985), Estonian scholar. He reputedly knew around sixty-five languages. HughNibley (1910–2005), American scholar. He knew fourteen languages. Lyuba Kutincheva...
The sophic and mantic were originally defined by HughNibley in 1963 as a way of describing naturalistic and supernaturalistic ontologies. H. Curtis Wright...
ISBN 0-8425-2589-0. Nibley, Hugh (1978). "To Open the Last Dispensation: Moses Chapter 1" (PDF). In Madsen, Truman G. (ed.). Nibley on the Timely and the...
William Kidd, popular at the time. According to Latter-day Saint scholar HughNibley, the use of "mor" in the Book of Mormon is an Egyptian word, and means...
the Aten show it with a curved surface, therefore, the late scholar HughNibley insisted that a more correct translation would be globe, orb or sphere...
ISBN 1-55503-986-3. OCLC 35317457. Nibley, Hugh W. (1994). Brother Brigham Challenges the Saints (The Collected Works of HughNibley, vol. 13). Salt Lake City...
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