Source:Nibley:CW06:Ch7:1 - Revision history

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	===Lehi's attitude toward Egypt===		==Lehi's attitude toward Egypt==

	Students have often speculated of recent years on the strange and suicidal devotion of the Jews to the cause of Egypt in the time of Zedekiah....Lehi was in the peculiar position of opposing the pro-Egyptian party ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|7\|14}}) while remaining an enthusiast for Egyptian culture ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|1\|2}}; {{s\|\|Mosiah\|1\|4}}). There is nothing paradoxical about that. Egypt had recently come under the sway of a corrupt and incompetent government, which in fact was about to fall to a popular revolution, but that did not mean that Egyptian cultural heritage had ceased to be the greatest in the world, and the Book of Mormon concern with Egypt is strictly cultural.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06\|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=10 Chapter 7], {{sofr}}}}</ref></onlyinclude>		Students have often speculated of recent years on the strange and suicidal devotion of the Jews to the cause of Egypt in the time of Zedekiah....Lehi was in the peculiar position of opposing the pro-Egyptian party ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|7\|14}}) while remaining an enthusiast for Egyptian culture ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|1\|2}}; {{s\|\|Mosiah\|1\|4}}). There is nothing paradoxical about that. Egypt had recently come under the sway of a corrupt and incompetent government, which in fact was about to fall to a popular revolution, but that did not mean that Egyptian cultural heritage had ceased to be the greatest in the world, and the Book of Mormon concern with Egypt is strictly cultural.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06\|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=10 Chapter 7], {{sofr}}}}</ref></onlyinclude>
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	[[Category:~~Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/Old World\|Old World]]~~		[[Category:Egypt]]
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	<onlyinclude>Students have often speculated of recent years on the strange and suicidal devotion of the Jews to the cause of Egypt in the time of Zedekiah. ~~We shall treat the political side of the question in the next lesson~~. Lehi was in the peculiar position of opposing the pro-Egyptian party ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|7\|14}}) while remaining an enthusiast for Egyptian culture ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|1\|2}}; {{s\|\|Mosiah\|1\|4}}). There is nothing paradoxical about that. Egypt had recently come under the sway of a corrupt and incompetent government, which in fact was about to fall to a popular revolution, but that did not mean that Egyptian cultural heritage had ceased to be the greatest in the world, and the Book of Mormon concern with Egypt is strictly cultural.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06\|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=10 Chapter 7], {{sofr}}}}</ref></onlyinclude>		{{FME-Source
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			===Lehi's attitude toward Egypt===

			Students have often speculated of recent years on the strange and suicidal devotion of the Jews to the cause of Egypt in the time of Zedekiah....Lehi was in the peculiar position of opposing the pro-Egyptian party ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|7\|14}}) while remaining an enthusiast for Egyptian culture ({{s\|1\|Nephi\|1\|2}}; {{s\|\|Mosiah\|1\|4}}). There is nothing paradoxical about that. Egypt had recently come under the sway of a corrupt and incompetent government, which in fact was about to fall to a popular revolution, but that did not mean that Egyptian cultural heritage had ceased to be the greatest in the world, and the Book of Mormon concern with Egypt is strictly cultural.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06\|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=10 Chapter 7], {{sofr}}}}</ref></onlyinclude>

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<onlyinclude>Students have often speculated of recent years on the strange and suicidal devotion of the Jews to the cause of Egypt in the time of Zedekiah. We shall treat the political side of the question in the next lesson. Lehi was in the peculiar position of opposing the pro-Egyptian party ({{s|1|Nephi|7|14}}) while remaining an enthusiast for Egyptian culture ({{s|1|Nephi|1|2}}; {{s||Mosiah|1|4}}). There is nothing paradoxical about that. Egypt had recently come under the sway of a corrupt and incompetent government, which in fact was about to fall to a popular revolution, but that did not mean that Egyptian cultural heritage had ceased to be the greatest in the world, and the Book of Mormon concern with Egypt is strictly cultural.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=10 Chapter 7], {{sofr}}}}</ref></onlyinclude>

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[[Category:Hugh Nibley]]
[[Category:An Approach to the Book of Mormon]]
[[Category:Collected Works of Hugh Nibley Vol. 06]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/Old World|Old World]]
[[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Culture/Old World/Egypt|Egypt]]