Ep 103 – Book of Abraham Physical Plus Jake Farr-Wharton

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we begin a 3-part deconstruction of the Book of Abraham. We begin with the cultural realm captivated by Egyptian Antiquities with Napoleon’s discoveries and how such discoveries influenced minds in 19th-century America. We trace collections of papyri and artifacts being studied and exhibited all over the country right in Joseph Smith’s back yard. We briefly cover how the Church acquired the Egyptian Antiquities collection of mummies and papyri which later became the Book of Abraham as well as the translation process. After that we continue to follow the line of possession of the collection and how it came into the possession of the Brighamite LDS Church in November of 1967. After that we have on Jake Farr-Wharton of iFriends to talk about a recent article from the Sidney Morning Herald covering the Protect LDS Children campaign. Jake is followed by a brief “Angel’s Trumpet” segment about a recent headline from Mormon-newsroom.org telling of the Church’s apology for institutionalized and doctrinal racism.

Links:

Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham
https://www.lds.org/topics/translation-and-historicity-of-the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng

Stephen E. Thompson Essay on Book of Abraham
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

Wilhelm Ritter von Wymetal Mormon Portraits
http://olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1886WWyl.htm#pg205b

Book of Abraham MormonThink
http://www.mormonthink.com/book-of-abraham-issues.htm#ref2

Joseph Smith’s Scriptural Cosmology Brent Metcalfe and Dan Vogel
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/the-word-of-god-12-2/

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0:00.0	A translation of some ancient records that have fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt,
0:07.8	the writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand upon papyrus.
0:16.8	Times and Seasons, Volume 3, page 704.
0:19.9	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:21.1	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:22.7	I am Christopher Smith.
0:24.2	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:25.7	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:28.7	The Serial Mormon History Podcast. The Book of Abraham isn't what Joseph claimed it to be.
0:47.8	He made it all up.
0:49.5	The Egyptian papy, Joe quote unquote, translated the book of Abraham from have absolutely nothing to do with the contents of the book of Abraham.
0:58.2	He got every single thing wrong.
1:01.1	The Book of Abraham is one of the few remaining low-hanging fruits of Joseph Smith's history that we have yet to pick in our timeline.
1:09.6	And I just said everything that needs to be said about it.
1:12.1	The Book of Abraham proves that Joseph Smith could just make stuff up and people would buy into it.
1:17.0	If he used his prophetic abilities to bring the Book of Abraham to the world, it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was a false prophet.
1:25.6	Now that we're in the Navu years, some of the seeds we've planted over the past three and a
1:30.4	half years of this podcast are beginning to mature.
1:33.5	Episode 33, Ancient Papyri and Joe Tapendat Fannie.
1:38.2	That's when we discussed the church's acquisition of the Egyptian antiquities, which
1:42.5	became what we're going to cover today. So if you
1:45.1	want some background, I'd recommend going and listening to Episode 33. With that out of the way,
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