The PRODUCT OF A SEER, AN ENIGMA AND A WONDER!

Champaign Illinois Stake After the book of Moses is the book of Abraham. One day Oliver Cowdery and William Phelps helped Joseph by in 1835, a Michael Chandler came to Kirtland, Ohio, to writing down the information that he translated from one exhibit four Egyptian mummies and some rolls of papyrus of the papyrus rolls. It was about the Prophet Abraham, with ancient writing on them. When the Prophet Joseph who lived in Egypt long ago and who, because of his recognized that the writings were about Joseph in Egypt righteousness, talked with Jesus Christ. and the prophet Abraham, the Saints purchased the mummies and papyrus rolls.

Jesus told Abraham about our premortal life and that it was He who created the heavens and the earth and all things on it. The book of Abraham helps us understand the purposes for the prophets and the priesthood.

Text (by chapter) Facsimiles

All of these things are attested to by other ancient extra-biblical texts

Napoleon Drovetti Lebolo Oblasser Chandler 1778 ~1820 ~1832/3 1833 Chicago Large scroll & Mummies The Collection is Separated

Joseph Lucy Mack Emma Smith Abel Combs New York 1835 1844 Bidamon 1856 11 Fragments 1856 1871 Fire Destroys 2 Mummies & Long scroll St. Louis Woods Museum, Museum Chicago Abel Combs 1856 1863 1856 1918 1947

Fragments Returned to the Charlotte Alice Edward Church in Huntsman Heusser Heusser 1892 >1910 ~1947 1967 Antonio Lebolo c. 1820

Albano Oblasser c. 1830

Michael Chandler 1833

Joseph Smith, Jr. / Simeon Andrews / Joseph Coe 1835

Lucy Mack Smith 1843

Emma Smith Bidamon / Lewis Bidamon / III 1856

Abel Combs 1856

1856 St. Louis Museum Charlotte Weaver Huntsman 1892

1864 Wood Museum Alice Heusser / Edward Heusser c. 1918

1871 Chicago Fire Metropolitan Museum of Art 1947

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1967 Teen Fiction Papyrus, 21st century JSP I JSP II JSP III

JSP IV JSP V JSP VI JSP VII

fragments only

JSP VIII JSP IX JSP X JSP XI JSP X JSP XI JSP I

Taken from Gee, John. A Guide to the , 2000, FARMS. JSP VII JSP II JSP IV JSP VI JSP V JSP VIII

Taken from Gee, John. A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri, 2000, FARMS. JSP III

Taken from Gee, John. A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri, 2000, FARMS. Taken from Gee, John. A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri, 2000, FARMS. Scroll of Hor FAC 3 JSP X JSP XI JSP I

JSP VII Scroll of Semminis JSP II JSP IV JSP VI JSP V JSP VIII

Scroll of Noufianoub JSP III

Scroll of Amenhophis

Hypocephalus of Sheshong Taken from Gee, John. A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri, 2000, FARMS. (Image courtesy of John Gee)

See “The Facsimiles and Semitic Adaptation of Existing Sources,” Kevin L. Barney, FARMS, 2005. • Originally Egyptian funerary documents. • Attached to Book of Abraham, given new meanings. • By an ancient Jewish- Egyptian scribe? • By Joseph Smith? Isis Osiris Ma’at Hor Anubis

Pharaoh Abraham The prince Shulem Olimlah

A demotic magical papyrus from Thebes, dated to 3rd or 2nd century B.C.

“Abraham” written in Greek “Research and Perspectives: Abraham in Ancient Egyptian Texts” by John Gee, Ensign, July 1992 “Research and Perspectives: Abraham in Ancient Egyptian Texts” by John Gee, Ensign, July 1992

BofA: “Fig. 9 The idolatrous god of Pharaoh.”

Egyptian god Sobek: “He is first known from several different Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom… which praises the pharaoh as living incarnation of the crocodile god”

. . . thou shalt be called a seer, a translator, a prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ D&C 21:1

1829 1833 1829+ 1835 & 1842

• The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism • A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri • Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant

• Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham