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by _aussieguy55
Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:46 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

I found this book listed on Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Hypocephalus-Ancient-Egyptian-Funerary-Amulet/dp/1789693330 The description The hypocephalus is an element of Late Period and Ptolemaic funerary equipment - an amuletic disc placed under the head of mummies. Its shape emulates the sun's di...
by _aussieguy55
Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:59 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

I have been watching the video here they are discussing fac 2 which the title A facsimile from the Book of Abraham which is actually for someone not connected with Abraham another mummy. The false restorations are interesting . Heward and Tanner did a good job pointing them out in Dialogue
by _aussieguy55
Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:26 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

On Facebook Colby Townsend states basically there was no Abraham Rick Bennett has done an excellent interview with him. His views on the Exodus and Conquest are sure to upset Robert Smith.
by _aussieguy55
Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:17 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

[quote=consiglieri post_id=1234268 time=1596942233 user_id=555] Here I expect the answer may be complicated by the different forms of Egyptian that have existed over time historically. From hieroglyphs to Hieratic to Demotic and even Meroitic. If Abraham had really written on papyri in Egyptian, he ...
by _aussieguy55
Sun Aug 09, 2020 5:38 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

Interesting paper https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789 ... 67_028.xml Male bodies and the construction of masculinity in New Kingdom Egyptian Art.
by _aussieguy55
Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:27 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

This was an interesting paper available on Google scholar "The Presentation of Elite Masculinity and sexuality in Formal and Informal Art during the New Kingdom.
by _aussieguy55
Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:57 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

Robert Smith on the MAD board says "Careful analysis shows that there are two hands of the guy on the couch, rather than a second bird wing. This restoration is phony as a three-dollar bill." What say you shulem? " have lost count of the number of times I have come across triumphalist, conclusory, t...
by _aussieguy55
Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:23 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

Here I think is the way LDS are going to deal with Ritner. The we cannot know everything.Some mocking over on the MAD board "From what I have watched so far, [b]these sessions are pretty good for a laugh, not pretty tight[/b]. Historical records and archaeology naturally have areas of great factual ...
by _aussieguy55
Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Return of the Dales - Coe the Book of Mormon
Replies: 8
Views: 1233

Return of the Dales - Coe the Book of Mormon

The Fair Conference
Joseph Smith: The World’s Greatest Guesser (a Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative Correspondences between the Book of Mormon and The Maya, 9th Edition)"

https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/2 ... conference

Has anyone listened?
by _aussieguy55
Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:13 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner
Replies: 102
Views: 12934

Re: New Mormon Stories/RFM interview with Robert Ritner

On Fairmormon page "John Gee is the William Gay Assistant Research Professor of Egyptology at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. They begin by touching upon the difference between John Gee’s and Brian Hauglid’s claims before going into a greater discussion about the Book of Abr...