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==Church sources discussing issues with Origin of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith papyri==
===The papyri and the Book of the Dead===
{{HiddenFact|fact=The text of the Joseph Smith papyri does not match the text of the Book of Abraham|location=The ''Improvement Era '', the ''Ensign'', "The Encyclopedia of Mormonism", FARMS }}

*'''August 1968 ''Improvement Era:''''' The largest part of the papyri in the possession of the Church consists of fragments from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. <br>&mdash;{{IE|author=Hugh Nibley|article=A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price|date=August 1968|start=56|end=57}} This issue contains color photographs of the papyri. A scan of the page from the article can be viewed [[Book of Abraham/Book of the Dead/Scan (full size)|here]].
*'''March 1976 ''Ensign:''''' A Book of Breathings text that closely matches the Joseph Smith version (and there are precious few of them) is the so-called Kerasher Book of Breathings. It too has a frontispiece, only in this case it is the same as our Facsimile No. 3, showing that it too is closely associated with our text." <br>&mdash;Hugh Nibley, “I Have a Question,” Ensign, Mar. 1976, 34–36 {{Link|url=http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=294cfd758096b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD}}
*'''July 1988 ''Ensign:''''' Why doesn’t the translation of the Egyptian papyri found in 1967 match the text of the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price? <br>&mdash;Michael D. Rhodes, “I Have a Question,” Ensign, July 1988, 51–53 {{Link|url=http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=a8c1d7630a27b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD}}
*[https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Book_of_Abraham Encyclopedia of Mormonism - Book of Abraham]
*FARMS Website - hundreds of publications regarding the controversies surrounding it.
*Gospel Topics Essay "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" found on lds.org

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