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by _CaliforniaKid
Thu Mar 02, 2017 1:18 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Brent Metcalfe's book on the Book of Abraham?
Replies: 69
Views: 7922

Re: Brent Metcalfe's book on the Book of Abraham?

Brent Metcalfe wrote:Yes, there is more on the way... a lot more.

:smile:
by _CaliforniaKid
Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:00 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Sandra Tanner Knows Nothing About Religion per Sunstone
Replies: 39
Views: 4797

Re: Sandra Tanner Knows Nothing About Religion per Sunstone

Sandra Tanner argued "nineteenth-century plagiarism," Brant Gardner "inspired history," David Bokovoy "inspired story," and Mark Thomas "great literature." Mark's was the standout presentation: he read portions of the Book of Mormon in the folksy Vermont accen...
by _CaliforniaKid
Mon Jul 25, 2016 2:33 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: George Albert Smith vision " They'll die like flies"
Replies: 57
Views: 6963

Re: George Albert Smith vision " They'll die like flies"

I was raised Pentecostal. If I had a nickel for every failed prophecy I've heard, I could fill a jacuzzi with champagne.
by _CaliforniaKid
Sun Jun 26, 2016 4:29 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: LDS philosopher Dennis Potter no longer a believer?
Replies: 15
Views: 2011

Re: LDS philosopher Dennis Potter no longer a believer?

Very interesting news. Was not aware of this. I liked his explanation, too. The sort of moral reasoning that I really resonate with. I too stopped being a Christian largely for moral reasons rather than for historical ones.
by _CaliforniaKid
Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:39 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?
Replies: 419
Views: 20048

Re: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?

Blixa wrote:I assume this will all be on the postcard you're sending me?

:lol: :biggrin: :mrgreen: :lol:
by _CaliforniaKid
Sat Jun 18, 2016 1:44 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?
Replies: 419
Views: 20048

Re: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?

Kishkumen wrote:Now get that dissertation done! (Done well, because it is another topic I am deeply interested in.)

Workin' on it. It won't be the ambitious, comprehensive treatment I wanted to write, though. Mostly it will cover 1847-1854.
by _CaliforniaKid
Fri Jun 17, 2016 6:50 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?
Replies: 419
Views: 20048

Re: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?

Celestial Kingdom's general cynicism about Joseph Smith may be more of a pose for the sake of thought experiment, but he does come at this from a critic's perspective. (No offense, Celestial Kingdom! I love what you do with your scholarship.) It's less of a pose than you think. I've got 160 pages w...
by _CaliforniaKid
Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:48 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Klaus Baer on Hugh Nibley
Replies: 18
Views: 4154

Re: Klaus Baer on Hugh Nibley

Incidentally, speaking of Montanism, am I right that some LDS schoalrs have claimed that the Montanists were an early version of Mormons? This post may interest you: m Personally I don't think Montanism seems nearly as weird as gnosticism, but then I was raised Pentecostal, so I suppose it feels pr...
by _CaliforniaKid
Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?
Replies: 419
Views: 20048

Re: Nibley: Footnote faker or not?

By request of Noel, I posted in another thread some letters by Klaus Baer in which he comments on Nibley's research. As a bonus, here's an old blog post I wrote on Nibley's footnotes (no longer online anywhere else, so this is an MDB exclusive ). A Footnote to the Debate Over Nibley's Footnotes A wh...
by _CaliforniaKid
Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:11 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Klaus Baer on Hugh Nibley
Replies: 18
Views: 4154

Re: Klaus Baer on Hugh Nibley

Did Baer Back Down? Recently I provided a letter from Hugh Nibley in which he asserted that during a lecture at BYU non-Mormon Egyptologist Klaus Baer was asked some hard questions about the Book of Abraham, and by the end of the session "was definitely in retreat." A letter from H. Micha...