by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“One life-long defender of Joseph Smith [Thomas Ferguson] made his own independent investigation of Joseph’s ability as a translator of Egyptian records, utilizing recognized Egyptologists without telling them a word about the issues that were at stake. Their verdict...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I don’t consider myself an Egyptologist at all, and don’t intend to get involved in the P.G.P. [Pearl of Great Price] business unless I am forced into it …” Dr. Hugh Nibley, Letter to Dee Jay Nelson – 27 June 1967; reprinted in Sandra and Jerald Tanner’s...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“‘The papyri scripts given to the Church do not prove the Book of Abraham is true,’ Dr. Hugh Nibley said … Wednesday night. ‘LDS scholars are caught flat-footed by this discovery,’ he went on to say. According to Dr. Nibley, Mormon scholars should have been doing...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[A] few faded and tattered little scraps of [the Book of Abraham] papyrus may serve to remind the Latter-day Saints of how sadly they have neglected serious education … Not only has our image suffered by such tragic neglect, but now in the moment of truth the Mormons...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Of particular interest to us is the close association of the Book of Breathing with the Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham. “It can be easily shown by matching up the fibres of the papyri that the text of Joseph Smith Pap. No. XI was written on the same strip of...
by Dan Wees | May 23, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Did he [Joseph Smith, Jr.] really think he was translating? If so he was acting in good faith. But was he really translating? If so, it was by a process which quite escapes the understanding of the specialists and lies in the realm of the imponderable …...
