What Biblical Studies Can Learn from the Composition of the Book of Abraham!
In 1830, Joseph Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from tablets written in Egyptian.
In 1835, he bought Egyptian funerary papyri from a traveling exhibitor, which he declared to have been written by Abraham.
Over the coming years he published his translation as the Book of Abraham, which later became part of the LDS canon.
Because every stage of this process is documented, we can see how a mid-century piece of American literature was made into scripture by a new religious movement.
thetorah.com/article/the-mo…
- What Biblical Studies Can Learn from the Composition of the Book of Abraham! In 1830, Joseph Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from tablets written in Egyptian. In 1835, he bought Egyptian funerary papyri from a traveling exhibitor, which he declared to have been written by Abraham. Over the coming years he published his translation as the Book of Abraham, which later became part of the LDS canon. Because every stage of this process is documented, we can see how a mid-century piece of American literature was made into scripture by a new religious movement. thetorah.com/article/the-mo…