Orson Scott Card: Nibley explains gospel best
During my weekly commute from Greensboro, N.C., to Buena Vista, Va., I listen to books on CD. As this semester began, I began to listen to "Time Vindicates the Prophets," a lecture series by Hugh Nibley, which the church broadcast from Temple Square in 1954.
The lectures eventually gave rise to the book "The World and the Prophets," which I read when I was in college and still remember very well — it was pivotal in my Christian education.
But the lecture series had something the book couldn't duplicate: Hugh Nibley's voice, that headlong rush of language; his explanations of the terms he knows we won't know; his complete failure to explain terms that are just as difficult, because it doesn't cross his mind that we won't know them; his scraps of quotations in ancient languages just in case we want to know where he's getting the nuances of his new translation.
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