Book of Abraham
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The “Breathing Permit of Hor” Thirty-Four Years Later
In 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York made a gift to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of eleven papyrus fragments once owned by Joseph Smith and employed as the…
Joseph Smith’s Identification of “Abraham” in Papyrus: JS the “Breathing Permit of Hor”
In 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York made a gift to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of eleven papyrus fragments once owned by Joseph Smith and employed as the…
The Book of Abraham and the Islamic Qisas al-Anbiya’ (Tales of the Prophets) Extant Literature
“Perhaps the most controversial and intensely contested revelatory claim of Joseph Smith Jr. is his translation of ancient papyri ostensibly written by the hand of Abraham.”
Egyptology and the Book of Abraham
The matter which I propose to examine is whether the “present understanding of Egyptian religious practice” supports Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles found in the Book of Abraham.
“That Is the Handwriting of Abraham”
A look at Karl Sandberg in his seeking to explain the Prophet Joseph Smith’s translation of the Book of Abraham almost exclusively in terms of seership.
The Odyssey of Thomas Stuart Ferguson
The odyssey of Ferguson is a quest for religious certitude through archaeological evidences, an attempt at scholarly verification of theological claims.
Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator
The problem took another turn when Joseph Smith’s papyri, which had been missing and presumed lost for eighty to ninety years, resurfaced in 1967 and were examined and translated by Egyptologists.
A Mormon Midrash?: LDS Creation Narratives Reconsidered
Latter-day Saints, with other groups in the Judeo-Christian tradition, accept as scripture the stories of creation found in Genesis 1-3 but are unique in accepting as scripture three other parallel versions of the same stories.