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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Chapter 3
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| Chapter 2: The Book of Abraham: A Timely Document" | A FAIR Analysis of: By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri A work by author: Charles M. Larson
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Claims made in "Claims made in "Chapter 4: The Papyri Rediscovered"" |
Claims made in "Chapter 3: Charges and Rebuttals"
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The author claims that the three facsimilies in the Book of Abraham are "copies of rather common Egyptian funerary documents."
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Some elements of the facsimilies "appeared....to be guesswork, probably incorrect restorations of missing sections of the original papyri."
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Egyptologists claim that the priest in Facsimile 1 should have the head of Anubis rather than a "strangely un-Egyptian" human head.
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- It should be noted that the head of the priest in Facsimile 1 appears to be a direct copy of the head of the reclining figure, which appears in the original papryus. This would, at the very least, disqualify the head as being "un-Egyptian."
- There is evidence in the original papyrus that the head of of the priest was indeed the jackal head of Anubis.
- See An analysis of the Charles M. Larson restoration of Facsimile 1 compared against the original papyrus
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