Evidence and the Book of Abraham

[_brade]

Setting aside spiritual experience, what is the best available evidence that the source of the Book of Abraham was the ancient Egyptian writings obtained from Michael Chandler?

[_dblagent007]

Parallels to ancient texts taken from just about anywhere in the ancient world and from any time frame +/- 1500 years from the time of Abraham (i.e., Nibley's arguments).

[_brade]

I obviously posted this on the wrong message board.

[_Drifting]

No you didn't.

But you asked for evidence about the Book of Abraham, which is a bit like rocking horse pooh - hard to come by...

[_Quasimodo]

No you didn't.

But you asked for evidence about the Book of Abraham, which is a bit like rocking horse pooh - hard to come by...

Clever metaphor! I was wondering where all the wood chips were coming from.

[_DarkHelmet]

If only we had the missing scrolls.

[_Brackite]

If only we had the missing scrolls.

Unfortunately, they got burned up in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire

[_brade]

Maybe I should change the question a bit. What is the best available evidence that the text of the Book of Abraham is ancient?

[_ldsfaqs]

These are just "starter" evidences, hardly exhaustive of the body of evidence for it.
You need to study the scholarship yourself if you want to know more of the actual truth instead of the anti-mormon ignoring of it:

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraha ... _antiquity

http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/Book of Abraham.shtml

[_Quasimodo]

These are just "starter" evidences, hardly exhaustive of the body of evidence for it.
You need to study the scholarship yourself if you want to know more of the actual truth instead of the anti-mormon ignoring of it:

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraha ... _antiquity

http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/Book of Abraham.shtml

Scholarship? LOL!