Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, gave the following twenty-six lectures in an honors class on the Pearl of Great Price. The class was videotaped in the Maeser Building during winter semester 1986. This book is the transcription of the lectures and is intended to be a guide to the recordings. We have spent considerable time and effort to make the text as accurate as possible. This transcription was prepared with the help of Robert Smith, Robert Smythe, Julie Dozier, Ellen Lund, and David Pendleton.