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Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:00 pm
by _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?
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:07 pm
by _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).
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:14 pm
by _brade
I obviously posted this on the wrong message board.
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:19 pm
by _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...
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:30 pm
by _Quasimodo
Drifting wrote: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.
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:36 pm
by _DarkHelmet
If only we had the missing scrolls.
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:42 pm
by _Brackite
DarkHelmet wrote: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
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:52 am
by _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?
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:18 am
by _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 ... _antiquityhttp://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/Book of Abraham.shtml
Re: Evidence and the Book of Abraham
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:25 am
by _Quasimodo