“‘The papyri scripts given to the Church do not prove the Book of Abraham is true,’ Dr. Hugh Nibley said … Wednesday night. ‘LDS scholars are caught flat-footed by this discovery,’ he went on to say. According to Dr. Nibley, Mormon scholars should have been doing added research on the Pearl of Great Price years ago. Non-Mormon scholars will bring in questions regarding the manuscripts which will be hard to answer because of lack of scholarly knowledge on the subject … Dr. Nibley said ‘worldly discoveries are going to bury the Church in criticism’ if members of the Church don’t take it upon themselves to become a people of learning.”

Hugh Nibley, BYU’s Daily Universe (Provo, UT: The Daily universe, 1 December 1967), UNVERIFIED.