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pornography..

engravings of the Egyptian god Min with his private parts exposed have nothing to do with the Abraham of the Christian Bible..

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I am sure it doesn’t but what are you doing looking at those sites? oh I see it was from the anti Mormon site “Mormon Think” the same group who bogus charges against President Monson. Boy how low can they go...

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Good news! See the new Website for The Book of Abraham Project at BOAP.org. I especially recommend their page, “Criticisms of Joseph Smith and the Book of Abraham.” It refutes many of the anti-Mormon assaults on the Book of Abraham. Also, Michael Rhodes’ fascinating article, “The Joseph Smith Hypocephalus: Seventeen Years Later,” is available online. This article provides an excellent discussion of Facsimile #2 and the amazingly reasonable commentary of Joseph Smith, which could not have been fabricated based on scholarly knowledge in the 1830s. Critics, can you explain away the evidence?

Another new and helpful resource is “The Jewish Origin of the Book of Abraham” by Jonathan Moyer, a scholarly paper exploring the ancient Jewish roots of the Book of Abraham. Also see the FAIRMormon.org answers on Facsimile 3.

Aug. 2013 updates: Several corrections to past errors have been made and labeled with “2013 Update”. I observe, for example, that Nibley was wrong in stating that the Joseph Smith papyri were entirely devoid of rubrics, which weakens the missing scroll argument based on physical description.

http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_Abraham.shtml