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The Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith, Revelation, and You

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

Posted 5 years ago August 21, 2018
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Sacred Violence: When Ancient Egyptian Punishment was Dressed in Ritual Trappings

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…

Posted 5 years ago August 21, 2018
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Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: Some Questions and Answers

In 1835 Joseph Smith began translating some ancient Egyptian papyri that he had obtained from an exhibitor passing through Kirtland, Ohio. He soon announced, “Much to our joy [we] found that one of the rolls contained the writings of Abraham.”[1] While we do not know how much the Prophet translated, we Read more…

Posted 5 years ago April 13, 2018
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Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View

Many critics have claimed that Joseph Smith’s translation of Egyptian papyri and his interpretation of Egyptian drawings do not match with what Egyptologists would say about these things. Such critics thus call into question his ability to translate ancient records. A more careful examination reveals that these claims are based Read more…

Posted 5 years ago April 13, 2018
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