The Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith's final translation project, is easily one of the most controversial books of scripture in the Latter-day Saint Canon, and we want to talk about it.

In today's episode of Church History Matters, we dig into the fascinating story of how the exploits

of a 19th century grave robber in Egypt ended up expanding

our scriptural canon. We look at where in Egypt the papyrae from which the

Book of Abraham was purportedly translated came from, and how Joseph Smith came to

possess both this papyrus and a couple pair of mummies. We look at the three theories of what

source material Joseph Smith translated from and how he did it.

And we trace what we know of what happened to the papyrus after Joseph's death, how many

fragments have survived to this day, and what modern Egyptologists think about those surviving fragments,

which is the source of the two biggest controversies about the book of Abraham.

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.

And today we dive into our seventh episode in this series dealing with Joseph Smith's

non-book of Mormon translations and revelations.

Hello Casey Griffiths.

Hello Scott, how are you doing? great how you doing I'm doing great and I am

excited to talk about our subject today because this is complex but it also it has a connection for me going back to my youth.

Yeah. I remember sitting in sacram meeting and flipping through your scriptures.

There's no smartphones back then.

And for some reason, I would always go to the book of

Abraham and can you guess the reason why I go to the book of Abraham same reason

every kid goes to the book of Abraham yeah the only book of scripture that has pictures.

Yep, yep, and so, you know, it was, I'm a visual person, and so I remember looking at facsimile

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