Posted By admin on December 2, 2008

Egyptian Papyrus

Mormons, if the book of abraham papyrus was recovered and found to be egyptian funerary text?

why would the pieces that weren't recovered be anything different? They were part of the same scroll, or set of scrolls. They wouldn't have kept a "book of abraham" account on the same scrolls as the funerary text. The farms explanation of this is absurd.
from mormons: 27 responses on a question about farts, but 2 responses on a subject like this.

If that's not ignoring the issues, I don't know what is.
microbioguy: Go put your head back in your a-s-s. I'm married to a catholic.
doc, there's nothing hypothectical about my question. They papyrus was recovered and found to be a funerary text. Jospeh Smith just altered the biblical version of the abraham story.

FARMS should merge with the Agricultural arm of the LDS Church's holdings company, Deseret Management Corporation.

They could call it FARMSland Reserve, Inc. and put those thinking FARMS brains to some useful work, like picking cotton. Nice sort of poetically just role reversal, huh?

Edit:

Doc,

The Book of Abraham papyri were indeed found. Both scrolls were found, although the first scroll was missing the last two facsimiles. It DID contain, however, the first Facsimile along with the series of characters (which Smith claimed was near the end of his translation) that were used in his Egyptian Alphabet dictionary (which is also erroneous, by the way). Smith had claimed that one scroll was Abraham's, and that the other was Joseph's. Both scrolls were evaluated by Egyptologists inside and out of the Church, and all of them concluded that the papyri were ordinary funerary text and had nothing to do with Abraham or Joseph. A couple of the LDS Egyptologists actually left the Church over it, because (having studied Egyptian records for decades) they realized how absurd it would be for an Egyptian funerary text to suddenly break into a pseudo-monotheistic dialogue involving planets, human sacrifices, a council of gods, and the creation.

Of course, in your PoGP, the 1967 discovery of the papyri is not mentioned, and it still states that they were destroyed in a fire.

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