Category: Book of Abraham
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 11
Fall of the Book of Abraham The Book of Abraham was supposed to have been written on papyrus by Abraham about 4,000 years ago. According to Mormon writers, this same papyrus fell into Joseph Smith’s hands in 1835. He translated the papyrus and published it under the title “The Book of Abraham.” The Book of…
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An Update on Fall of the Book of Abraham
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the Salt Lake City Messenger for March 1968, we announced the “FALL OF THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM.” Subsequently we published a number of books showing that Joseph Smith’s “Book of Abraham” had been proven untrue (see especially Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? pages 294-369). During the past few years we have…
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Nibley Fails to Save Book of Abraham
The top LDS apologist of the time is not able to translate the Book of Abraham papyri as the church had hoped.
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More Skeletons?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner After Joseph Smith’s death the Egyptian papyri, which were supposed to contain the books of Abraham and Joseph, were lost. In 1967, however, the Mormon Church announced the “discovery” of eleven pieces of this papyri at the Metropolitan Museum. Another fragment had also been preserved in the Church Historian’s Office,…
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The Test
Recent evidence, especially the 1967 rediscovery of the Book of Abraham papyrus, disproves Joseph Smith’s translation. Egyptologists found it unrelated to Abraham, undermining Smith’s claims and the Church’s racist teaching.
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“Forfeiting the Game”?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In an article published in the New York Times, May 3, 1970, Wallace Turner wrote: SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 — The “Book of Abraham,” which provides the theological basis for the Utah Mormon churches excluding Negroes from its priesthood, has been described as “simply the product of Joseph Smith Jr.’s…
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Imitation Genesis?
With portions of the book of Genesis appearing in the LDS Book of Abraham the question of plagiarism arises. Which one came first?
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Lord Blesses Papyri Work
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In a letter, dated September 15, 1968, the Mormon Egyptologist Dee Jay Nelson wrote: Does it not impress you that the fact against the Book of Abraham are coming one on the heels of another? I believe that God has decided that the time is right that these untruths (Book…
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Facsimiles Altered
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner From the very first day that the Metropolitan Museum presented the papyri to the Mormon Church, the Church leaders were willing to admit that the drawing which Joseph Smith used for Facsimile No. 1 in the Book of Abraham was among the manuscripts. They were reluctant to admit, however, that…
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Ridiculous Ideas
A man claimed the Book of Abraham is the word of God despite evidence, suggesting destroying the papyrus, which he called a forgery to force racial integration in the priesthood.