A topic I have been thinking about lately

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Iluvatar

that JS used (at least in part) the recovered portions of the papyrii in his translation. This is how we know.

The fragment of papyrii used to construct facsimile #1 WAS found. (for an image of this, just run a google search for "facsimile #1 book of abraham papyrii"...you'll get plenty of photos).

This portion of the scroll was attached (before JS seperated it) from another portion that had, in order, all of the characters found in JS's Egyptian alphabet and grammar; which he apparently used to translate the whole of the work. Wether they recovered all the Abraham papyrii or not, it's clear that he used at least some of the recovered scrolls in the translation.

That's not to say that Joseph didn't recieve the book through inspiration/revelation. It only means that he didn't get it from the papyrus.

If your inerested in knowing more about the specifics, you should pick up Charles Larson's book "By his own hand upon Papyrus".

Not that I rely upon FARMS exclusively, I thought I'd read something from FARMS which threw into to doubt the conclusions you've reached.

I've also read reviews of Larsen's work, but can't remember any more what the reviews stated.

Now you've done it, as I must go investigate what I thought I knew.

[Archaea]

Here's a link.

http://farms.byu.edu/pdf.php?filenam...&type=cmV2aWV3

[tooblue]

a post from Dan on this subject is mysteriously missing???



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