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- Bell: "the questionable traces above the head of the Osiris figure are actually the remains of his right hand" (view source)
- Bell: "there would not be enough available space to restore the hand of Anubis, the erect phallus of the Osiris, and the body and wings of Isis" (view source)
- Book of Abraham/Publications on the Book of Abraham (view source)
- Book of Jubilees 12:1-8: "Abram said to Terah his father...What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship...And his father said unto him...Keep silent, my son, lest they slay thee" (view source)
- CitationAbuse:Jeremy Runnells' Response and Rebuttal to Brian M. Hauglid's Rational Faiths Essay:B.H. Roberts comment on the Book of Abraham (view source)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (view source)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles of the book of Abraham contain additional earmarks of the ancient world" (view source)
- Gospel Topics: "The phrase can be understood to mean that Abraham is the author and not the literal copyist" (view source)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (view source)
- John Gee: "If Oylum Hoyuk is Olishem, the Ur of the Chaldees should be one of the dozens of Middle Bronze II sites in the Kilis plain" (view source)
- John Whitmer: "Joseph the Seer saw these Record(s) and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records" (view source)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "It is now apparent that human sacrifice did indeed occur in ancient Egypt" (view source)
- Muhlestein and Gee: "Sacrifice was a penalty for desecrating the sacred house of an Egyptian god" (view source)
- Parrish (1838): "I have set by his side and penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven" (view source)
- Paul Hoskisson (1991): "I will suggest an alternate location for the Ur of the Chaldees in the story of Abraham" (view source)
- Peterson: "the identification of a crocodile as the idolatrous god of Pharaoh...Unas’ pyramid texts, includes the following: 'The king appears as the crocodile god Sobek'" (view source)
- Question: Are the scenes contained in the facsimiles anachronistic to the time of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: Are the statements of Abraham 1:12,14 about the altar and Gods at the “beginning of the record” significant for the Book of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: Are there any known parallels between elements of Joseph's interpretation of Facsimile 3 with other ancient texts? (view source)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith's theology as described in the Book of Abraham have been influenced by Thomas Dick's book The Philosophy of a Future State? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that Abraham wrote the text on the papyrus himself? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith identify any elements of Facsimile 2 that are in agreement with what Egyptologists say they represent? (view source)
- Question: Do any of Joseph's explanations of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 agree with what Egyptologists say about the figures? (view source)
- Question: Do any of Joseph's explanations of Facsimile 1 agree with what Egyptologists say about the figures? (view source)
- Question: Does Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 show a hand, or does it show the wing of a second bird? (view source)
- Question: Does Facsimile 1 show a hand? Or does it show the wing of a second bird? (view source)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (view source)
- Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated? (view source)
- Question: How do the theological concepts of Joseph Smith actually compare to those of Thomas Dick? (view source)
- Question: How long did the Church know about the papyri before they published information about them? (view source)
- Question: If modern Egyptologists say that this is a representation of Min, and Min is a “pagan” God, how could Joseph Smith say that it represents God sitting on his throne? (view source)
- Question: Is Joseph Smith papyri Facsimile 1 common and similar to other such scenes? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of "Ur of the Chaldees" in the Book of Abraham an anachronism? (view source)
- Question: Is the mention of Egyptus anachronistic to the time of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: Is the name "Pharaoh" anachronistic to the time of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: Is the phrase "by his own hand upon papyrus" a 19th century redaction? (view source)
- Question: Is the phrase "by his own hand upon papyrus" an Egyptian title? (view source)
- Question: Is the representation of Min actually Egyptian "pornography"? (view source)
- Question: Should the restoration of Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (view source)
- Question: Should the restoration of Facsimile 1 include a phallus? (view source)
- Question: Since the papyri from which the Book of Abraham was translated date to the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, does this mean that the events recorded in the Book of Abraham cannot be historical? (view source)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyri prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (view source)
- Question: Was the Church forthright in identifying the rediscovered papyrus prior to their examination by non-LDS Egyptologists? (view source)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (view source)
- Question: Was the original head of the priest in Facsimile 1 actually the jackal head of Anubis? (view source)
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 holding a knife or was it some other object? (view source)
- Question: Was the priest depicted in Facsimile 1 holding a knife or some other object? (view source)
- Question: What are the criticisms regarding Joseph's interpretation of specific textual elements of Facsimile 3? (view source)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Book of Abraham Facsimile 1? (view source)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 1? (view source)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Facsimile 3? (view source)
- Question: What are the differences between Genesis 11-12 and Abraham 2? (view source)
- Question: What are the differences between the Genesis account of creation and that of the Book of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: What did the Church announce in 1968 when the Joseph Smith papyri fragments were discovered? (view source)
- Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of? (view source)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene in Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 normally represent? (view source)
- Question: What does the lion couch scene normally represent? (view source)
- Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death? (view source)
- Question: What have been the responses to Joseph's interpretations of Facsimile 3? (view source)
- Question: What is the correct interpretation of Facsimile 3? (view source)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (view source)
- Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham? (view source)
- Question: Who is this Egyptian god "Min"? (view source)
- Question: Why does the Book of Abraham state that it was written by Abraham's "own hand upon papyrus" if the papyri date to after the Abrahamic period? (view source)
- Question: Why would the Book of Abraham contain anachronisms? (view source)
- The Apocalypse of Abraham: "Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain" (view source)
- Woodruff (1842): "The Lord is Blessing Joseph with Power to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God; to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham or Adam" (view source)
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