by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“We have often been asked during the past months why we did not proceed with all haste to produce a translation of the [Book of Abraham] papyri the moment they came into our possession. Well, for one thing others are far better equipped to do the job than we are, and...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he presence on the scene of some of the original papyri, including those used by the Prophet in preparing the text of the Book of Abraham and the facsimiles with their commentaries, has not raised a single new question, though, as we shall see, it has solved some...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I return herewith, under separate cover, the ‘Pearl of Great Price.’ The ‘Book of Abraham,’ it is hardly necessary to say, is a pure fabrication … Joseph Smith’s interpretation of these cuts is a farrago [confused mixture] of nonsense from beginning to end.” Dr....
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“To any one with knowledge of the large class of [Egyptian] funeral documents to which these belong, the attempts to guess a meaning are too absurd to be noticed. It may be safely said that there is not one single word that is true in these [i.e., Smith’s Book of...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Is it possible that a record written by Abraham, and another by Joseph, containing the most important revelation that God ever gave to man, should be entirely lost by the tenacious Israelites, and preserved by the unbelieving Egyptians, and by them embalmed and...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Ferguson said that the thing that first led him to seriously question the church was the papyri purported to be the source of the Book of Abraham. He said he took a photograph of the papyri to a couple of friends of his that were scholars at Cal., Berkeley. They...
