GAEL posted on Joseph Smith Papers

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_the narrator
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GAEL posted on Joseph Smith Papers

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You're absolutely vile and obnoxious paternalistic air of intellectual superiority towards anyone who takes issue with your clear misapprehension of core LDS doctrine must give one pause. - Droopy
_DonBradley
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HURRAH!

This is HUGE--both as a step in openness at the HDC and for the benefit of research by Mormon studies wonks like me.

Don
_CaliforniaKid
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Thanks for the heads-up, Loyd. I notice they don't have a transcription yet, but I suspect they'll put one up soon. Now I wish I hadn't recently spent a couple weeks transcribing the whole thing on my own. Oh well. I guess there's something to be said for really digging into the handwriting issues on my own terms.
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CaliforniaKid wrote:I notice they don't have a transcription yet, but I suspect they'll put one up soon.


by the way, wikisource has a transcription of it here.
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the narrator wrote:http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/grammar-and-alphabet-of-the-egyptian-language-circa-july-circa-december-1835

This is great news. I can finally stop using the poor-quality photocopy version I bought from the Tanners.
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Awesome.



I await the inevitable post on MDD how posting the GAEL in 2013 proves the Church has not been hiding a document they have known about since the 1930s.
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_dblagent007
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This is nice. There are a lot of blank pages.
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palerobber wrote:by the way, wikisource has a transcription of it here.

Yeah, but that one sucks.
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CaliforniaKid wrote:
palerobber wrote:by the way, wikisource has a transcription of it here.

Yeah, but that one sucks.


is there a better free one available online?

(just curious)
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palerobber wrote:is there a better free one available online?

(just curious)

Not really. Thus why I made my own. :)
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