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Two LDS scholars (Royal Skousen & Terryl Givens) have accepted the view that the interpretations of Smith of the facsimiles are wrong. Skousen suggests they could be dropped and the written content of the Book of Abraham be accepted as given by revelation. So this paper is I believe a must read for ...

Gee responded to the sacrifice issue. Your message is somewhat opaque, but I will do my best to answer your questions such as I understand them. You mentioned the writings of Caroline Seawright, an undergraduate student of archaeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. I did manage to lo...

Another one: Another one is figure 7 in facsimile 2. "Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand key-words of the priesthood: also the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham in the form of a dove. The sketch of the facsimile indicates that we only have the "head" of...

Something shared with the Backyard Professor: If facsimile one is supposed to represent someone being sacrificed "fastened upon an alter" why is there a lion couch and the equipment both used for embalming is underneath (canopic vases)? Was the lion couch used in executions? When I asked someone at ...

Kara Cooney wrote, "First dynasty human sacrifice is real, but, interestingly, Egyptologists like Christiane Koehler are now pushing back against the concept. There is also evidence of human sacrifice at Karnak at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom. I’m surprised he didn’t mention it. As for Tell e...

No Eloy Rodrigo Colombo https://www.wecolombo.com/

Kerry Muhlestein's book on Sanctioned Killing in Ancient Egypt: https://www.amazon.com.au/Violence-Service-Order-Religious-Sanctioned/dp/1407308769/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Review Eloy Rodrigo Colombo 3.0 out of 5 stars Is it possible we build a civilization with no human sacrifice at all...

From "How to Read a Mormon Scholar" https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V04N04_131.pdf Sam Taylor "You must understand that the aim of the either/or scholar is not to tell the truth, but to keep people happy. The newest sin of Mormonism, and possibly the greatest...

The video site Gospel Tangents has a couple of videos on the Spalding Theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPHrI0GJaY&t=4s

Here is an interesting and timely paper.
https://dartreview.com/the-spalding-rig ... vine-text/

Nibley on Klaus Baer:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lSD ... 8TR_Q/edit