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Nibley's Response to Klaus Baer Previously I posted some letters from Klaus Baer to Wesley Walters commenting on Hugh Nibley's "Egyptian Endowment" apologetic. A few days ago my friend Noel Hausler sent me a letter he received from Nibley that responded to the Baer letters. [p. 1] Septemb...

Baer on Apologetics and the Nature of Egyptian Religion Here is the last of the three Klaus Baer letters Noel Hausler sent to me. This one is particularly important, I think, because it makes a crucial methodological point about the nature of Egyptian religion. Because the Egyptians were pantheisti...

More from Klaus Baer on Hugh Nibley Thanks again to Noel Hausler for providing these very interesting letters. Notice that Baer here clarifies his comments from the last letter I posted. Someone commented that it sounded like Baer was a little perturbed with Walters in that letter, but actually it ...

These are some old blog posts that are no longer online. Noel (aussieguy) asked me to repost them here. Klaus Baer's Critique of Hugh Nibley I got images of the following letter of Klaus Baer from a friend named Noel Hausler, who got them from Wesley P. Walters. Walters had written Baer to solicit h...

So JSJr had to dress in all black with a black horse to pick up the plates and was beat up by a toad that turned into a man? I feel so stupid for ever believing the gold plated story. It just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. This story is actually way more interesting than the Moroni vision ...

This week I've been researching the Missouri period. In Kirtland, Joseph Smith had been named defendant in more than a dozen lawsuits in connection with the failure of the Kirtland Bank. So he fled to Missouri, where he and Sidney Rigdon complained loudly about how all the suits against them were ma...

aussieguy55 wrote:Chris, you have to write the definitive biography of Joseph Smith, Not Smith as a genuine prophet or pious fraud but just a fraud.

Someday. :)

Good points, Frodo. People do defy labels. Most of the time I think most people don't even understand their own thoughts and motivations.

I privately shared the audio from this session with a few people on the board, but I don't think I ever shared the public link posted by Sunstone:

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/four-v ... et-puzzle/

Andrea gave more detail here:

http://juvenileinstructor.org/eliza-r-s ... -a-source/

See also:

http://www.withoutend.org/eliza-r-snow- ... -missouri/