Charles Wilfred Griggs, Ph.D. is a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. Griggs is an Egyptologist. He was educated at BYU and Stanford University. Griggs received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.Griggs currently holds the University Professorship of Ancient Studies at BYU. In addition to being a scholar of early Christian and Latter-day Saint history he is also an archeologist. In 1975-1976 he was part of a team doing excavations at the Nag Hammadi site in Egypt for UC Berkeley. In January–March 1981 he was the field director of the joint BYU and UC Berkeley excavation at Seila, Fayum, Egypt and he has been the head of BYU's Fayum excavation since 1982. Also in 1994 he was invited by the government of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea to do excavations at Ancient Greek sites on the Crimea. At BYU, Griggs has served as the director of ancient studies for the Religious Studies Center. He has also written several works on the Early Christian Church, mainly published in LDS-owned or - related periodicals. (Thank you, Wikipedia!)
Ricky studied from Griggs during his year at BYU. He has read everything he's published and followed Griggs' work over the years. Years ago when Spencer and Kristin attended BYU, Ricky asked them to record Griggs' class for a couple of semesters. When I met Ricky he had a huge box of tapes that Spencer and Kristin had given him with all of Griggs lectures. Over the course of the last eight years (sometimes not working on it for months at a time) he transcribed approximately 30 cassette tapes, with approximately 60 hours of lectures which ultimately turned out to be over 700 pages of text. Well, after spending approximately 500 hours on this, his project is finally finished. Last month he had several copies of the transcripts bound. One for Griggs, one for Spencer and Kristin and one for himself. I can't believe how bigw the book ended up being. I'm so proud of him for sticking with it and seeing it through to completion. I hope Griggs appreciates the number of hours that Ricky spent transcribing, editing and printing this work. Ricky has read over it and uses the material for his studies. I look forward to the day when Ricky is the author of his own book.
Ricky studied from Griggs during his year at BYU. He has read everything he's published and followed Griggs' work over the years. Years ago when Spencer and Kristin attended BYU, Ricky asked them to record Griggs' class for a couple of semesters. When I met Ricky he had a huge box of tapes that Spencer and Kristin had given him with all of Griggs lectures. Over the course of the last eight years (sometimes not working on it for months at a time) he transcribed approximately 30 cassette tapes, with approximately 60 hours of lectures which ultimately turned out to be over 700 pages of text. Well, after spending approximately 500 hours on this, his project is finally finished. Last month he had several copies of the transcripts bound. One for Griggs, one for Spencer and Kristin and one for himself. I can't believe how bigw the book ended up being. I'm so proud of him for sticking with it and seeing it through to completion. I hope Griggs appreciates the number of hours that Ricky spent transcribing, editing and printing this work. Ricky has read over it and uses the material for his studies. I look forward to the day when Ricky is the author of his own book.
Three stacks of paper eventually were bound into beautiful books.
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Holy Crap that is impressive. I remember spendo and Kris doing that back in the day. Post about any feedback you get from Briggs. He's got to appreciate that.
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