“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 Exegete for Translation Services of the LDS Church, letter (see Salt Lake City, UT: UTLM No. 91, November 1996) dated 13 March 1971.