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and the book of Abraham are now backed up by the book of Enoch in many of their teachings.

Smith came up with thousands of words. A backward "E" translated by Smith as the Book of Abraham 1:13-14 = 76 English words, including 9 proper names & 8 nouns.

The PoGP has a facsimile of portions of the Book of Abraham in the PoGP. Dr. Hugh Nibley concluded that "papyrus scripts given to the Church do not prove the Book of Abraham is true) after the papyri was recovered 40 yrs ago. Brown University egyptologist Dr. Richard Parker examined Joe Smith's supposed "translation" and it bears absolutely no resemblance to the Book of Abraham. In fact, scholars who have translated it come up with a 75-word translation.

Smith came up with thousands of words. A backward "E" translated by Smith as the Book of Abraham 1:13-14 = 76 English words, including 9 proper names & 8 nouns

This is pathetic, the best you can do is say the scholars could not duplicate what a prophet can? Pharaoh in Egypt did a better job on Moses using magicians. First, the papyrus they examined was one of three that came with the mummies and Joseph did not bother to translate that one because it was worthless. Portions of the book of Enoch have been found buried with mummies since, and the book itself has now been available in English for I think 40 years. The book of Moses bears such a striking resemblance to potions of the book of Enoch same names, same stories, same, same, same.

Here is a 13 part series where Hugh Nibly compares the book of Moses to the book of Enoch. To say that Joseph made up the book with it chiasmus and the Egyptian (which they now have archeological evidence of in the holy land) and the Jewish and Egyptian names that were popular in the day, and then put all the other things he did in that light, and you “still have a lot of ‘spalinin to do Lucy!”

On second thought, you never will be able to explain it all away, so forget it. And give up. (grin) Have a good night!