Criticism of the Book of Abraham
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title:
Criticism of the Book of Abraham
text:
The Book of Abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by the Latter Day Saints (LDS) movement founder Joseph Smith that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was "a translation of some ancient records... purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus". The work was first published in 1842 and today is a canonical part of the Pearl of
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Scholarly assessment of Mormon text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Book_of_Abraham
date created:
2007-11-24T17:25:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:30:11Z
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