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Church History Matters

034 Q&R with Dr. Kerry Muhlestein! Tough Book of Abraham Questions

Church History Matters

Scripture Central

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

There was in 2nd Century BC Egypt an indisputable multicultural sharing of religious ideas between Jews, Greeks, and Egyptians. How should that fact influence how we evaluate Joseph Smith’s interpretations of the Abraham facsimiles in general and individual hieroglyphics on the facsimiles specifically? On a related note, some of Joseph’s descriptions of Facsimile #2 contain temple themes, saying more will be revealed about those in the temple. Can Egyptologists today read those hieroglyphs? And are they actually connected in any way to what we learn about in our modern temples? Also, Dr. Robert Ritner is an Egyptologist who has critiqued LDS scholarship on the Book of Abraham. Has he been adequately responded to? And finally, what are the top three most solid intellectual evidences for the book of Abraham having ancient connections which Joseph Smith could not have known about? In today’s episode of Church History Matters, we dive into all of these questions and more with Dr. Kerry Muhlestein, an Eyptologist and scholar on the Book of Abraham. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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So there was in second century BC Egypt an indisputable multicultural sharing of religious ideas between Jews, Greeks, and Egyptians.

0:16.2

How should that fact influence how we evaluate Joseph Smith's interpretations of the

0:21.1

Abraham facsimiles in general and individual hieroglyphics on the facsimiles specifically.

0:26.1

On a related note, some of Joseph's descriptions of facsimile too contain temple

0:31.7

themes saying that more will be revealed about those in the temple.

0:36.0

Can Egyptologist today read those hieroglyphs and are they actually connected in any way to

0:41.3

what we learn about in our modern temples?

0:44.1

Also, Dr Robert Rittner is an Egyptologist

0:47.4

who has critiqued LDS scholarship

0:49.4

on the book of Abraham.

0:50.9

Has he been adequately responded to?

0:53.0

And finally, what are the top three most solid intellectual evidences

0:58.0

for the Book of Abraham having ancient connections

1:01.0

which Joseph Smith could not have known about.

1:04.0

In today's episode of Church History Matters,

1:06.0

we dive into all of these questions and more

1:09.0

with Dr. Carey Mulestein, an Egyptologist and scholar on the Book of Abraham.

1:14.6

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

1:17.8

And today we dive into our 10th and final episode in this series,

1:21.6

dealing with Joseph Smith's non-book of Mormon translations and

1:24.6

revelations. Now let's get into it. And hello Scott.

1:35.0

Scott.

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