This is an essay on the Book of Abraham’s translation chronology. It is found in “Part II: Scripture” of the hardcover volume entitled “Let Us Reason Together” (Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet) https://publications.mi.byu.edu/book/let-us-reason-together/
A Reason for Faith was written to do just as the title implies, provide reasons for faith by offering faithful answers to sincere questions. Before the Internet, historical and doctrinal questions not addressed in LDS Church curriculum were mostly found in the scholarly articles of academic journals. This is no Read more…
A Speech given at Brigham Young University-Hawaii on November 12, 2013 by Kerry Muhlestein (Associate Professor of Ancient Scripture, BYU). https://devotional.byuh.edu/media131112
Despite gaping holes in our knowledge of ancient Egyptian laws and punishments, the sheer amount of data available for that long-lasting culture dictates that we limit our study of punishments both topically and temporally. This article will investigate the topic of ritual-associated killing from the Old Kingdom through the Libyan Read more…
The existence of human sacrifice in ancient Egypt has been variously debated and denied. While Egyptologists generally admit that the practice existed in the formative periods of Egyptian society,1 opinions among Egyptologists for later time periods range from claiming that “there is no certain evidence for the practice of human sacrifice Read more…