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An article appeared in https://thebulwark.com/fraud-fortune-and-fame-in-the-search-for-religions-origins/?fbclid=IwAR04ZzJgEE7gDWi_SvuhFT9_xyi-cK-v8k0ULy1CBlVZRuUz3FTpF7YE6-k I shared over on DCP's blog and Midgley's comment " I just happen to have met at a Mormon History Association meeting, and he...

I wonder what Gee thinks of the work of Tamas Mekis an Egyptologist from Hungary. Here is his opinions of facsimile 3. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hy48-P-YZQpzOKaRyyzMZ2Zvko01NJUlwAZD39OJ5qM/edit He has written a paper on hypocephalus https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fc7q4KNlr01H7J4xr7HnU...

In an article in the Religious Education KerryM writes "https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1822&context=facpub "Yes. Joseph identifies certain people in Facsimile 3 and points out that their names are indicated by the hieroglyphs over their heads. As I translate these hierog...

Dan Petersen announces - "I’m pleased to announce that I’m now in possession of a number of copies of a Festschrift in honor of Professor Louis C. Midgley, a volume that we expect to become more generally available sometime during the month of March (when we will also make a COVID-compliant formal p...

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Civil War: John Gee vs. the Joseph Smith Papers Project
1 waiting•Scheduled for Feb 13, 2021

I do not know his email address. I have commented on his blog.

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/introduction-volume-6-the-modest-but-important-end-of-apologetics/ Dan delves into the value of apologetics after discussing the work of one writer as to whether it was useful, "Our arguments, no matter how learned and no matter how sound, can’t force belief...

Gee's latest on the Book of Abraham. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/fantasy-and-reality-in-the-translation-of-the-book-of-abraham/ Just before the publication of Dan Vogel's book. Gee concludes "I have shown that the theory of translation propounded in The Joseph Smith Papers Revelations ...

There was a report of a new find in Egypt with a description of a long Book of the Dead. I wonder how Gee will respond to that?
https://www.livescience.com/queen-templ ... egypt.html

Interesting interview with Gee and his experience at Yale. He does not mention Ritner. https://www.fromthedesk.org/10-questions-john-gee/ Note how he argues for the Book of Abraham "The first is that the fragments that we currently have must be the papyri from which Joseph Smith translated the Book ...