What is most notable here is the absence of a line expense for Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Volume III. Through the fourth quarter of 2020, the Foundation had spent $329,289.65 on Volume III. Does this mean that the Foundation is finished funding the Critical Text Project? I cannot help but recall the urgent fundraising letter from the Foundation's chairman back in December 2014:
How we got from $40,000 for a year to $329,289.65 over six years is anyone's guess. In any event, I will advise the Relief Society sister in Parowan that she can stop earmarking half of her monthly pension for Critical Text Project, Volume III. Hopefully, she will be able to buy groceries this next month.Owing to unwelcome external circumstances, Professor Skousen’s landmark Critical Text Project suddenly needs to find a new home and (certainly by our standards) substantial funding. He has just approached The Interpreter Foundation for help. The amount required—approximately $40,000 for a year—dwarfs anything we’ve heretofore done. But this is an opportunity for Interpreter to participate in an undertaking that will benefit the Saints and the Church for generations to come. If you would like to help with this effort, donations will need to be sent to The Interpreter Foundation by check, annotated to indicate that they are earmarked for the Critical Text Project, Volume 3.
In other Foundation news, I must report the release of a new, landmark publication entitled Nahom Knows My History: Hugh Nibley Under Observation. This wonderful 830-page book is published by the Interpreter Foundation, in cooperation with Eborn Books and Afterglow and in collaboration with Book of Mormon Central, and is made possible by the generous support of Sic et Non, FAIR, FARMS, Deseret Industries, the Church Welfare Division, the Church Correlation Committee, Church Courts of Love, [deleted] Peter Pan at Neville-Neville Land, the United Order, the Strengthening Church Members Committee, the Christopher Hitchens Memorial "How Religion Poisons Everything" File, MormonVoices, Alternate Voices, Keeping Faith at BYU, the Deseret Trust Company, ZCMI, NCMO, Ensign Peak Advisors, the Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company, and the Swearing Elders. It is now available in softcover, digital, and audio versions, and, in June, a hardback edition. (No word, yet, on a leather edition or a sealed edition that you can read with your spiritual eyes.)
Here are the volume's contents:
*Appears in John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks, eds., By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990).Contents
Introduction – Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Appreciation – Stephen T. Whitlock
Part 1: Portraits
Foreword: A Doorkeeper in the House of the Lord* – John W. Welch
About the Portrait of Hugh Nibley – Rebecca Fechser Everett [see here]
An Intellectual Autobiography: Some High and Low Points – Hugh W. Nibley
Part 2: Nibley, the Scholar
Nibley Centennial Lecture Series
Nibley’s Early Education – Zina Nibley Petersen
Graduate School through BYU – Alex Nibley
Hugh Nibley and Joseph Smith – Richard Lyman Bushman
Hugh Nibley and the Church – Robert L. Millet
Nibley as an Apologist – Daniel C. Peterson
Nibley and the Environment – Terry B. Ball
Hugh Nibley and the Bible: “Look! And I Looked” – Ann N. Madsen
Nibley and Folklore – William A. Wilson
Beyond Scholarship: Scenes behind the Nibley Written Legacy – John W. Welch
Hugh Nibley and Classical Scholarship – Eric D. Huntsman
“Words, Words, Words”: Hugh Nibley on the Book of Mormon – Marilyn Arnold
Hugh Nibley, Mentor to the Saints – C. Wilfred Griggs
Nibley, Egyptology, and the Book of Abraham – Michael D. Rhodes
The Scholarship of Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley: A Prodigy, an Enigma, and a Symbol – Truman G. Madsen
The Influence of Hugh Nibley: His Presence in the University* – Robert K. Thomas
Hugh Nibley: Scholar of the Spirit, Missionary of the Mind – Gary P. Gillum
Matthew Black and Mircea Eliade Meet Hugh Nibley – Gordon C. Thomasson
Hugh Nibley and the Book of Mormon – John W. Welch
Editing Hugh Nibley: The Man and His Legacy – Shirley S. Ricks
“A Stranger in a Strange Land”: Hugh Nibley as an Egyptologist – John Gee
Joseph or Jung? – William J. Hamblin
Part 3: Nibley, the Man
Selected Tributes at the Passing of Hugh Nibley
A Brighter Light – Zina Nibley Petersen
Memories of a Special Occasion – Rebecca Nibley
Remarks – Alex Nibley
In Memoriam HWN – Michael Draper Nibley
Called in a Council of the Prophets: The Mission of Hugh Nibley – Thomas Hugh Nibley
Remembering My Father – Christina Nibley Mincek
A Tribute to My Father – Paul Sloan Nibley
Hugh Nibley’s Articles of Faith – John W. Welch
Funeral Service for Hugh W. Nibley – Dallin H. Oaks
The Woman behind the Man: A Look into the Life of Hugh Nibley’s Widow – David Johnson
A Mighty Kauri Has Fallen: Hugh Winder Nibley (1910–2005) – Louis Midgley
Personal Stories, Perspectives, and Reminiscences
The BYU Folklore of Hugh W. Nibley – Jane D. Brady
Hugh Nibley, World’s Worst Politician – Alex Nibley
Hugh Nibley and Me – Don Norton
Reminiscences of Nibley – Stephen D. Ricks
Hugh Winder Nibley: The Man, the Scholar, the Legacy – Gary P. Gillum
Further information about the book is available here.
Eborn Books has 490 copies left in stock, so I suggest acting now.