William Schryver's Book of Abraham documentary...
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:15 pm
Recently over at the board-that-we-must-not-name Will posted this entry which interested me:
This will be interesting I think (well at least I can see CK live in person). So is this thing anywhere near being completed? Will it be posted on the Net for cheapskates like ole Bond?
I don't have the energy or inclination to get into it at present. And, frankly, I'm not sure there's much else that could be said at this juncture. Do a search for threads containing the search terms Book of Abraham and KEP, both in this forum and in the Pundits forum. Read the FAIR wiki. Some of the wiki stuff is outdated, but most of it is good and will at least bring you up to speed on the basics.
I hope to finish up a documentary-type of film on the topic during 2008. I hope that the film will become an essential resource for people looking into these questions. People who will appear in it include:
Kevin Barney
Samuel Brown
Christopher Smith
Kerry Shirts (as soon as I get to Idaho Falls again -- hey, Kerry, my daughter is living up there now so it won't be long!)
Mike Ash (I'll stop by on my way to Idaho.)
Blake Ostler
Brian Hauglid
John Gee
David Bokovoy (if he can get off his surfboard long enough to sit down for an interview!)
Others (as yet unnamed) from whom I have not yet obtained consent for an interview.
Several "rank and file" types whose faith has been either destroyed by or retained despite their coming to a knowledge of the "controversy" surrounding the Book of Abraham.
My bottom line for anyone looking into this topic for the first time is that nothing is as clear-cut as the critics would have you believe, and that many things that pass for "givens" among the critics at this point will be shown, in the not-to-distant-future to have been mistaken. There are good, qualified people working on this issue. The next year will no doubt see the publication of at least one (and perhaps two) complete separate sets of images of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, then the discussion will really take off. When and if Brent Metcalfe ever submits to press his long-promised book (a collection of essays as I understand it) on the topic, it will no doubt spur even more apologetic work in response.
This will be interesting I think (well at least I can see CK live in person). So is this thing anywhere near being completed? Will it be posted on the Net for cheapskates like ole Bond?