On this episode, we jump into the logical deconstruction of the Book of Abraham. We deal with the apologetic arguments made to claim the Book of Abraham is ‘historically plausible’. Historically plausible doesn’t mean probable or authentic, so what does it really mean? Can one believe in a book of scripture if it’s ‘historically plausible,’ even if that plausibility flies in the face of the historicity of the documents being authentic? We take apologist arguments line by line and systematically break them down into their constituent parts, hopefully arming you, the listener, with an arsenal of arguments against the historicity of the Book of Abraham.
Links:
Historical Plausibility: The Historicity of the Book of Abraham as a Case Study https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/historicity-and-latter-day-saint-scriptures/3-historical-plausibility-historicity-book
MormonThink Book of Abraham essay http://www.mormonthink.com/book-of-abraham-issues.htm#ref2
Stephen E. Thompson essay on BoA http://mit.irr.org/lds-egyptologist-doubts-joseph-smith-translated-book-of-abraham-egyptian-scroll
Egyptology and the Book of Abraham Stephen E. Thompson https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V28N01_155.pdf
Joseph Smith Papers Egyptian materials http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/site/book-of-abraham-and-egyptian-material
Translating the BoA in Joseph Smith Journal 1842 http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1841-december-1842/19
Translating Egyptian into grammar and alphabet in Joseph Smith journal http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-1835-1836/4
Egyptian grammar http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/grammar-and-alphabet-of-the-egyptian-language-circa-july-circa-november-1835/7
Kerry Muhlstein Book of Abraham Challenges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMVX-Km_G6Y&list=PLNt4VOT9Z1fZNcekTzaV0Wbjx6kQTPlr4
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