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Chapter 10 | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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Chapter 12 |
One of the major problems with all anti-Mormon efforts to disprove the divine origin of the book of Abraham is that they never look at the book of Abraham itself. They concentrate on showing that Joseph Smith's method of translation (as they envision it) could not possibly have worked, and yet they completely ignore the evidence of the text itself.
–Michael Rhodes[1]
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329-330 |
Joseph claimed that the papyrus was written by Abraham himself. |
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330-331 |
Hugh Nibley said that the papyri does not prove the Book of Abraham to be true and the LDS scholars were unprepared. |
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335 |
Since the translation of the papyri was turned over to Hugh Nibley, this proves that the prophet does not have the ability to translate ancient records. |
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336 |
Facsimile 1 does not show Abraham fastened to an altar being sacrificed, but instead shows Hor being prepared for burial. |
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337 |
LDS leaders were unable to detect the Hofmann forgeries. If they were really led be revelation, they should have been able to figure out that the documents were fake. |
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339 |
"Mormon elder" Dee Jay Nelson, who claimed to be an Egyptologist, translated the papyri but was unable to find any mention of Abraham. Even though Nelson was later exposed to be a fraud, "This is not to say that his work has no merit." |
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342 |
Joseph Smith's "Egyptian Alphabet and Grammer" contain text that matches a portion of one of the papyri. Joseph Smith translated a "large number of English words" from each Egyptian character. |
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343 |
Joseph used four lines from the papyrus to generate 49 verses in the Book of Abraham. |
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351 |
The papyri have been dated to a much later time than Abraham, therefore they could not have been written by Abraham's "own hand on papyrus." |
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358-361 |
In Facsimile #1, the penciled-in restoration is incorrect. |
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