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...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I must conclude that Joseph Smith had not the remotest skill in things Egyptian-hieroglyphics. To my surprise one of the highest officials in the Mormon Church agreed with that conclusion … privately in one-to-one [c]onversation.” Thomas S. Ferguson, Scriptural...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I myself studied Egyptian hieroglyphics at UCLA several years ago in the hope of resolving some of the problems connected with the ‘Book of Abraham’ in Joseph Smith’s favor. Unfortunately, as soon as I had learned the language well enough to use a...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Richard A. Parker is the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University … He remarks that the Book of Breathings is a late (Ptolemaic and Roman periods) and greatly reduced version of the Book of the Dead … He would...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]hese three fac-similes of Egyptian documents in the ‘Pearl of Great Price’ [Book of Abraham] depict the most common objects in the mortuary religion of Egypt. Joseph Smith’s interpretation of them as part of a unique revelation through Abraham, therefore, very...
by Dan Wees | May 22, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“It is difficult to deal seriously with Joseph Smith’s impudent fraud. His facsimile … Number 3 … has turned the Goddess into a king and Osiris into Abraham.” Dr. A.H. Sayce/Oxford Professor of Egyptology, see F.S. Spaulding’s Joseph Smith Jun. As a...
