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I would think that over the 1600 years a new copy would need to be updated at least every century or so, if not sooner, just to keep it close. Asking a person to translate something they can't read only happened in 19th century New York. Actually, it didn't even happen in New York then either. It w...

fence sitter, I thought the idea was the book was written by Abraham who lived well before Greek had significant presence in Egypt. (Kishkumen, if that simple jump to a conclusion is wrong, please advise me.) Kishkumen has interesting observations about an Egyptian instead of a Canaanite family lan...

Thanks Kishkumen, I also recommend Scott Trafton's Egypt Land on 19th century Egyptomania and Race. I do understand why Smith made such a claim. I should have been clearer in my OP. My remarks were directed at those who are still trying to defend Smith's claim that he translated the Book of Abraham ...

Michael Chandler showed up in Kirtland at the end of June 1835 with what remained of a larger collection of Egyptian mummies and papyrus rolls that he had been exhibiting and selling off throughout the United States. Upon his arrival, Joseph Smith examined the rolls and said that “one of the rolls c...

Shouldn't a religion that seeks to portray itself as the only true religion, avoid arguments that places it at the same level as all others?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibyzG9Xoq0 Mormonish and Ron Yorgason are my guests on my live show Sunday, Dec. 17th. Come join us as we explore violence in early Mormonism, and see there is no difference between Mormons and other peoples. We are all human with failings after all, even though ide...

This guy isn't feeling well so he goes to his doctor. Doctor runs some tests and comes back with bad news. The guy has incurable cancer and only has 6 months to live. The distraught patient pleads with the doctor, "Please doctor I'll do anything, there must be some sort of clinical trials or treatme...

Smith's facsimile explanations, that are somewhat close, can easily be explained by his what he learned though his conversations with Chandler.

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