by Dan Wees | May 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Whatever the intent of Joseph Smith in expounding this view of the Negro,” Mr. Howard wrote, “it is clear that the ancient papyri from Egypt contained no such information … “It may be helpful to suggest that the Book of Abraham represents simply the...
by Dan Wees | May 25, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[B]oth books [The Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham] were translated from the same Egyptian language, and if the translator failed in the translation of the one book, our faith in his translation of the other must necessarily be impaired.” Samuel A.B. Mercer,...
by Dan Wees | May 25, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“A more careful examination of these [papyri] revealed the startling fact that one of the papyri of the Church collection, known as the Small Sensen Papyrus, contained the same series of hieratic symbols, which had been copied, in the same order, into the Book of...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I have in my possession a photo static copy of the manuscript of Prophet Joseph Smith’s translation of Abraham 1:1 to 2:18. This manuscript was bought by Wilford Wood in 1945 from Charles Bidemon, son of the man who married Emma [Smith] after the death of the...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Nibley’s Era articles on the Book of Abraham aren’t worth a tinker—first, because he is not impartial, being the commissioned and paid defender of the faith. Second, because he could not, he dared not, he did not, face the true issue: ‘Could Joseph Smith translate...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“At that time [2 December 1970], Thomas Stuart Ferguson told us frankly that he had not only given up the Book of Abraham, but that he had come to the conclusion that Joseph Smith was not a prophet and that Mormonism was not true. He told us that he had spent 25 years...
