The Book of Abraham 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 / Joseph Smith 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 Joseph Smith Papyri, 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