Volume 3, No. 2
Summer 1968
Contents
Articles/Essays
Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew
Louis C. Zucker
1968: Louis Zucker, “Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew“ Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 3 No. 2 (1968): 41–55. Zucker describes the efforts that Joseph Smith went through to study Hebrew. Joseph Smith’s personal behavior was apparently not changed, but in other aspects in later years there is evidence that...
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Summary Report
John A. Wilson
On November 27, 1967, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presented the L.D.S. Church eleven papyrus fragments, which were once in the possession of Joseph Smith and some of which were apparently used by the Prophet in preparing the text of one of the Church’s scriptures, the Book...
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Joseph Smith Papyri: A Preliminary Report
Richard A. Parker
Richard A. Parker is the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University. His primary interest is in the later stages of Egyptian language and history. He remarks that the BOOK OF BREATHINGS is a late (Ptolemaic and Roman periods) and greatly redacted version...
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham
Richard P. Howard
During the 1830’s John Whitmer wrote, in connection with the ancient Egyptian records purchased by the church in July 1835 from Michael H. Chandler, . . . Joseph the Seer saw these :records and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records which gave an account of our...
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified
Jerald Tanner and Grant S. Heward
The following evidence that one specific fragment, the “sensen” text, was used by Joseph Smith in obtaining the Book of Abraham was submitted by Grant Heward (who has studied Egyptian on his own and reports that he was recently excommunicated for his views on Joseph Smith’s ability to translate Egyptian)...
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: The Book of Breathings
Richard A. Parker
THE BOOK OF BREATHINGS (FRAGMENT I, THE “SENSEN” TEXT, WITH RESTORATIONS FROM LOUVRE PAPYRUS 3284) translated by Richard A. Parker COLUMN I 1. [ . . . . . . . . ] this great pool of Khonsu 2. [Osiris Hor, justified], born of Taykhebyt, a man likewise. 3. After...
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: Translations and Interpretations: Phase One
Hugh Nibley
The investigation of the Book of Abraham has still far to go before we can start drawing significant conclusions. Even the first preliminary stage of the operation is by no means completed, for we still have to determine exactly what the relationship was supposed to be between the official text...
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Letters to the Editor
Notes
Some Reflections on the Kingdom and the Gathering in Early Mormon History
Robert Bruce Flanders
1976: Robert Flanders, “Some Reflections on the New Mormon History,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 9 No. 1 (1976): 34–42. Historical studies embrace the most extensive, intensive, and well-matured of the scholarly endeavors which have the Restoration as their subject. The paucity of critical writings in the various fields of theology...
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