Taking on the apologetics on the Book of Abraham in 1k words

[Guest]

We all know what the basic apologetic rationales are on the Book of Abraham, but I think what a lot of apologists try to do is to just create a whole world around them in order to make them work.

You can see examples of that when they try to claim the facsimiles are correct because if you create an alternate line of reasoning you can reinvent what Joseph Smith himself was saying.

So it's interesting to try and break the apologetics down at face value and in a super short way... without really digging into anything but what the Book of Abraham and the manuscripts themselves say.

Explaining the Book of Abraham apologetics in 1,000 words: https://www.ldsdiscussions.com/blog-abraham-in-1000-words

It's even got a nod to the broken snout of Anubis from Shulem's work.

[_Fence Sitter]

I am not sure if you are looking for feedback or not but this section below needs to be re-written.

3. Due to damage on the scroll used for the Book of Abraham, you can use math to determine the length of the overall scroll upon being unrolled. This was published in Dialogue, and shows that the amount of space missing is exactly the space that the Facsimile 3 image would occupy (that fragment is lost, but the Facsimile is in the Pearl of Great Price) – there is no room for the Book of Abraham text.

Facsimile #3 was located on the inside end of the scroll and was not located in the approximately two feet of missing scroll that lie between JSPx and JSP X of the Hor scroll. Also the amount of scroll missing is larger than the length of Facsimile #3 but still is no where near sufficient to contain the current Book of Abraham. That would require about 15'-0" of missing scroll according to what estimates I have seen.

[_Shulem]

One good shot