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Contents
- 1 Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: Charges and Rebuttals"
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- 1.2 Claim The author claims that the three facsimilies in the Book of Abraham are "copies of rather common Egyptian funerary documents."
- 1.3 Response to claim: 25 - Some elements of the facsimilies "appeared....to be guesswork, probably incorrect restorations of missing sections of the original papyri"
- 1.4 Claim Egyptologists claim that the priest in Facsimile 1 should have the head of Anubis rather than a "strangely un-Egyptian" human head.
- 1.5 Claim
- 1.6 Claim
Response to claims made in "Chapter 3: Charges and Rebuttals"
| 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"" |
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Claim
The author claims that the three facsimilies in the Book of Abraham are "copies of rather common Egyptian funerary documents."
Response
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Response to claim: 25 - Some elements of the facsimilies "appeared....to be guesswork, probably incorrect restorations of missing sections of the original papyri"
The author(s) of By His Own Hand upon Papyrus make(s) the following claim:
Some elements of the facsimilies "appeared....to be guesswork, probably incorrect restorations of missing sections of the original papyri."
FAIR's Response
Fact checking results: This claim is based upon correct information - The author is providing knowledge concerning some particular fact, subject, or event
This is correct. Whoever filled in the missing pieces of the facsimilies to prepare them for publication simply copied elements that were present elsewhere in the papyri. Note, however, that Joseph Smith never provided explanations for any of the filled in portions.
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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.
Response
- 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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