Book of Abraham BOMBSHELL! | (New Evidence CRUSHES Critics’ Claims!)

0:05 [Music] All right. Hello everyone and welcome to Rise Zion. My name is Seth and I hope you're all having a wonderful Wednesday. Now today we're going to be diving into some of the new and exciting recent scholarship that has been done on the book of Abraham. Now, this episode is inspired by the fantastic episode that was created over at Thoughtful Faith. We will be doing a shorter, more concise version here today in a way that might be easier for some people to understand. The information that we're going to be discussing today is perhaps the most compelling defense of the Book of Abraham's veracity that I've ever heard. Now, for years, critics of the church

0:51 have pointed to the Book of Abraham as a sure evidence that Joseph Smith was a fraud. They view the book of Abraham as the smoking gun and the nail in the coffin, so to speak. Often times, you'll see the Book of Abraham randomly invoked in the comment section of Latter-day Saint YouTube video content, even though the video in question has nothing to do with the Book of Abraham. And why? Because for years, anti- Mormons have used this inspired book of scripture to shut down intelligent conversation about the church. They've used it as a bludgeon to silence any opposition or debate. But today, no more. Today, we are shutting down this argument for good and bringing light and knowledge to all of you out there in my audience so that you can intelligently articulate the case as to why you believe in the book

1:37 of Abraham and the prophet Joseph Smith from a logical point of view, not just a spiritual one. In Doctrine of Covenant section 71, it says, "Behold, thus sayaith the Lord unto you, my servants, that the time has verily come that is necessary and expedient in me that you should open your mouths in proclaiming my gospel, the things of the kingdom, expounding the mysteries thereof, out of the scriptures, according to that portion of spirit and power, which shall be given unto you, even as I will. Wherefore confound your enemies, call upon them to meet you both in public and in private, and in as much as ye are faithful, their shame shall be made manifest. Therefore, let them bring forth their strong reasons against the Lord. Verily, thus sayaith the Lord unto you, there is no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper. And if any

2:24 man lift his voice against you, he shall be confounded in mine own due time. In these verses of scripture, we are called upon by the Lord to defend the gospel and our faith in Jesus Christ. And in order to do this, we must risk being a little offensive to those who do not wish to hear this information. We must be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. I've often said as Latter-day Saints, we've got the harmless as doves part down perfectly, but we need to do a little work on the wise as serpents portion as well. I was disappointed that this was not widely discussed in Come Follow Me episodes this past week as we discovered or as we covered Doctrine of Covenant section 71. Well, today I'm talking about it and we will now, I hope, view it as a divine mandate to defend the faith, not merely

3:10 leaving it up to chance, even though it might be a little more comfortable for us to do so. In order to do this, we must first understand their arguments against the book of Abraham. And I will outline it in a very simple way to understand. Their argument is very simple and it consists of only three parts. Number one, they say wrong text. Joseph Smith translated the book of Abraham from Egyptian papy that are actually just commonerary texts not about Abraham at all. Number two, they say bad translation. The Kirtland Egyptian papers show that Joseph Smith matched Egyptian symbols with incorrect English meanings. Number three, they say wrong figures. His explanations of the faximiles don't

3:56 match what Egyptologists say they should mean. Okay, so three things again. Wrong papy, wrong translation, wrong images. Refuting each of these points will become very simple when we understand that all of these arguments are based entirely on wrong assumptions. For over 50 years, compelling evidence supporting the Book of Abraham's authenticity has been available, but largely ignored, unfortunately, in anti- Mormon discussions. Instead, detractors continue relying on outdated scholarship that overlooks three key aspects. the missing papyrii. Number two, the true nature of the Egyptian Kirtland papers. And number three, the ancient Jewish Egyptian iconographic contexts. Today, we're going to be diving into new research that turns these arguments

4:44 completely on their heads. So, you're not going to want to miss this. Stick around. Number one, to understand the wrong text argument, we must first dive into the missing papy discussion. Now, some critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claim that the only papy Joseph Smith used in producing the book of Abraham are the are only the surviving fragments that we have today. And these include a few pieces of the Joseph Smith papy, one of which contains the illustrations now known as the faximiles in the pearl of great price. Critics argue that these faximiles and their surrounding texts are part of the common Egyptianerary documents known as the book of breathing. and therefore they conclude that Joseph Smith's translations are not correct or that they're fabricated. While these fact simileies are very very

5:29 interesting and we'll be discussing them later in this episode, we first need to address a very important misconception that has been refuted by modern scholarship repeatedly and that is the fact that we actually don't have all of the materials that Joseph Smith used while in the process of translating the book of Abraham. 19th century records tell a very different story from what the anti- Mormons would have you believe. In July of 1835, WW Phelps, Joseph Smith scribe, wrote this. The last of June, four Egyptian mummies were brought here. There were two papyrus rolls besides some other ancient Egyptian writings with them. As no one could translate these writings, they were presented to President Smith. He soon knew what they were and that they

6:16 were the roles of papyrus containing the sacred records kept of Joseph in Pharaoh's court of in Egypt and the teachings of father Abraham. Later Oliver Caldry in December of 1835 in a letter confirmed that two rolls of papyrus written in black and red ink were available. Okay. He wrote upon the subject of the Egyptian records or rather the writings of Abraham and Joseph I may say a few words. This record is beautifully written on papyrus with black and small part red ink or paint in perfect preservation. Multiple 1840 eyewitnesses also described Joseph's papy as two roles explicitly containing Abrahamic texts. And Joseph Smith himself wrote in the history of the church. On the 3rd of

7:03 July, Michael H. Chandler came to Kirtland to ex exhibit some Egyptian mummies. There were four human figures together with some two or more roles of papyrus covered with hieroglyphic figures and devices. I commenced the translation of some of the characters are hieroglyphics and much to our joy found that one of the roles contained the writings of Abraham, another the writings of Joseph of Egypt, a more full account of which will appear in its place as I proceed to examine or unfold them. Okay. So from this quote we learn that Joseph Smith identified that one of the roles contained the writings of Abraham and it was from this role this entire role that he translated the text not from the faximiles found in the pearl of great price as some people have assumed. Now, according to Carrie Molstein,

7:50 in addition to this, other contemporary witnesses describe a number of fragments of papyrus contained under glass panels, also described as glazed slides. a long role on which the Book of Abraham was reported to be written and another role thus confirming WW Phelps account of several fragments adding the information that at some point they had been put in framed glass and his report of two papyrus rolls also specifying that one was longer than the other. Those who saw the papyri in Joseph's day agreed that the long roll was the source of the Book of Abraham because we know this role was destroyed in the Chicago fire. Assumptions that the book of Abraham came from the Metropolitan Museum fragments run contrary to contemporary eyewitness accounts. Judging from these accounts, it seems

8:36 that the book of Abraham came from the scroll, not from the fragments. Okay, so that's very very key from an Egyptologist, Carrie Molstein. Okay, we have many of the fragments that were preserved under glass. These contain the faximiles. But what happened to the long scrolls? Okay. Again, they were burned in the Chicago fire in 1871. The fragments that we do have survived because they remained with Emma Smith's estate after the death of her husband, Joseph Smith, and were later sold to the Met to resolve financial issues that they were having. They constitute only a very small portion of what Joseph Smith originally used. The assumptions that the surviving fragments are the entirety of Joseph Smith's source for translation is factually false.

9:22 But wait just a moment. Some of the critics might be screaming at their at their computer screens right now or their phones, but we do have fragments and we do have what Joseph Smith said the images meant in the faximiles. And these images don't match what modern Egyptologists say they should mean. Why is this the case? They're saying right where we're going to answer this. We will be discussing that specifically later. But for now, suffice it to say that often times vignettes like the ones found on faximile number one, for example, often did not match the adjacent text next to it on scrolls in 200 BC. And there is a very important reason for this, and we're going to discuss that later. Okay, we do know that the scrolls and fragments belonged to at least four different mummies from around 200 BC according to modern

10:09 scholarship. Let's continue here with the second point. Okay, the second point is that the Egyptian Kirtland papers are not an attempt to translate the book of Abraham. Okay, so now that we've established that Joseph Smith did not use solely the faximiles or the fragments under glass slides during his translation of the book of Abraham and we've established that the long scroll that Joseph Smith did use was in fact destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871. We need to address the next phase of argumentation by the critics. A critics's next turn to the Egyptian Kirtland papers which they argue provide clear evidence that Joseph Smith attempted to translate the book of Abraham directly from the surviving Egyptian papyri particularly the book of breathing scroll and the faximiles and that these efforts expose his lack of linguistic ability and dependence on

10:55 incorrect assumptions about the text okay but what are the Egyptian curlin papers first we will address this okay but first we need to discuss what the Egyptian kurlin papers are because a lot of you probably don't know what these things are. Okay, so the the Kirtland Egyptian papers are a collection of early Latter-day Saint manuscripts produced between 1835 and 1836 in Kirtland, Ohio, consisting of various attempts to understand and systemize the Egyptian language. Okay, they use Egyptian, okay, in their description of it. Egyptian isn't necessarily what it is. Okay, these documents are associated with Joseph Smith and his associates work following the acquisition of Egyptian papyri. These papers were mostly written by WW Phelps, but it does appear that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cry

11:42 also collaborated on this project at times. The Kirtland Egyptian papers include the following types of documents. There are four alphabet documents, one counting document, two small notebooks, seven Abraham manuscripts, and two documents containing copies of characters from the Joseph Smith papy. The Egyptian alphabet documents, for example, contain various columns, okay, like a a spreadsheet, right, that show an Egyptian character on one side and on the other side a supposed meaning or translation. Anti- Mormon critics will often show portions of the Kirtland Egyptian papers, especially showing how a symbol taken from the fragments of the papyri that we do have correspond to incorrect translations taken from the book of

12:28 Abraham. In their view, this provides a smoking gun showing that Joseph Smith didn't know what he was talking about. Right? However, again, the critics assumptions are just plain wrong. And this is where we get into some truly fascinating and new research that has been done with regards to the true nature of the Kirtland Egyptian papers by written by William Shrivever in 2010. Okay, so this is relatively recent, but it's been around for about for more than a decade now, but critics are still ignoring it. But to be fair, it's new to me as well. So I'm glad that we're covering this today. And in truth, even faithful sources are not talking about it very much. I've never heard of this before. We're going to discuss it today. This is truly, truly amazing stuff, you guys. Um, while diving into William

13:14 Shrivever's research, I stumbled across this fantastic Desireette News article written by Michael Dgroot that explains what his research is all about in in plain and simple to understand terms. Okay. He writes, "At first glance, the characters on the Egyptian Kirtland papers appeared to be copies in the same order that they were on the fragments of papyrus that we do have. Again, I want to point out that the critics are ignoring the fact that we no longer have the long scroll from which Joseph actually translated as he claimed. Right? And to be fair, this is exactly what one would expect to find if someone were attempting to translate the papyrus. We'd expect the characters to be written in the columns on the Egyptian Kirtland papers in order. But Egyptologist John Gee, senior research

14:00 fellow at the Nil A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU examined this claim very closely. The first line of characters on the papyrus was indeed copied in the exact same order on the documents, but then the order stops. It it disappears after the first line. The characters are taken willy-nilly from all over the papyri. Dr. Gee wrote, "If the characters in the lefth hand margin were thought to be translated by the words on the right, they should have been taken in order, but they were not. The theorius proposed does not pass the sobriety test. It cannot follow a straight line." Okay, so pause here just for a moment. I need to explain. So the fact that these characters are not in order is just one of the proofs that the Kirtland Egyptian

14:46 papers are not meant as a way to translate the book of Abraham. Driver's 2010 study additionally reveals that entries in the in the in the Kirtland Egyptian papers tied directly to the already translated Book of Abraham. Symbols were being assigned willy-nilly mostly to nouns and proper nouns. Words such as king, government, and water and names of places and people, not to articles or pronouns such as a, the, they, my, them, or, but, and, for example. And this further indicates that the Egyptian Kirtland papers were not being used to translate because if you were trying to translate, you definitely need to have all the access to these kinds of words first to form a complete narrative. The fact that they were just focusing on the proper names, the proper

15:33 nouns and nouns indicates that they were not trying to do that. This random selection of words being matched with seemingly random selections of symbols from the papyrus suggests rather that the symbols were being assigned after the book of Abraham was written not before. And in addition to this we have a quote from Joseph Smith himself from his journal who wrote what he was doing. He says translating an alphabet to the book of Abraham and araging a grammar of the Egyptian language. Okay. Now saying that they were creating an alphabet to the book of Abraham strongly implies that the translation had already occurred by this point. Now from this evidence we can reasonably conclude that the purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian papers was not to translate the book of Abraham from Egyptian. The Kirtland

16:20 Egyptian papers were dependent on the book of Abraham, not the other way around. And this is a truly stunning revelation. Let's continue reading what they have to say. But if the Egyptian Kirtland papers were not an attempt to translate the Egyptian characters, what were they? Right? Shrivever expanded his examination of the papers to two other sets of Kirtland Egyptian papers. In his study, documents he referred to as the alphabet and the grammar like the Abraham text documents. The alphabet and grammar had characters in columns with definitions just like we've been seeing, right? However, he noticed something very peculiar. Some characters had multiple definitions ranging from basic dictionary like descriptions to extensive paragraphs. These were noted as being different degrees for the same

17:05 character. If you thought the degree sounds a little Masonic, you might be correct. Let's continue reading. By breaking the information down in databases, Shrivever began to see a connection between the alphabet and the grammar and the text of the book of Abraham. It was like someone took the Book of Abraham text, cut it into pieces, and used some of the pieces as definitions in the alphabet and grammar. Shrivever realized this process could only work one way. The alphabet and the grammar relied entirely upon the pre-existing text of the book of Abraham. He was also surprised to see that the alphabet and grammar had pieces and illusions to other scriptures like Doctrine and Covenant section 76 and 88 amongst its definitions. Okay, so what is this thing? Right, but still the purpose of the whole Kirtland Egyptian

17:50 papers project wasn't clear. If these documents were not prepared as a tool to decipher the papyri, then what was their purpose? He looked closely at the characters in the alphabet and the grammar. Most of the characters explained in the Egyptian alphabet documents were not Egyptian and do not even appear on the Egyptian papyrite in question. Okay, so that's that's pretty compelling, right? Okay. Much to my surprise, I discovered that several of the characters can be traced to ciphers used by the Knights Templar and ultimately to the Freemasons. Okay, very interesting, right? The key to figuring out the purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian papers for Shrivever was a two-page document in the papers, the Egyptian counting document. Like the

18:37 other documents in the Kirtland Egyptian papers, the counting document had characters in a column with definitions. In this case, the characters were defined as numbers. The characters, however, were not Egyptian. This is what gave Shrivever an aha moment. What we have here, he said, is not a tool to decipher Egyptian, but one intended to encode encode the descriptive English text. Joseph Smith and his associates were attempting to create a secret code or a cipher key. For example, in the counting document, one character meant six, another seven, so on and so forth. The other document in the Kirtland Egyptian papers also appeared to elaborate cipher keys. In a cipher key, it doesn't matter what characters were used, so it didn't

19:24 matter what order they were borrowed from in the papyri. It didn't matter if they made up characters or borrowed them from Freemason symbols. It didn't matter if they used characters from the Knights Templar. They could have used any symbol that they wanted to create this secret code. The only thing that mattered was that the receiver of the message also had the correct key so that they would be able to decipher the text correctly when they received it. Let's continue here reading. But what about these long paragraph definitions found in the book of Abraham, right? The cipher they were creating, Shrivever said, was related to 19th century theories of the pure language of the ancients. Egyptian was thought to be more ancient and thus less corrupted over time. The theory also held that the written language was more efficient and characters could stand for

20:09 longer and more complex ideas, even whole paragraphs. So the code was a very devious one in fact in that it could contain multiple layers of meanings or degrees as WW Phelps put it hidden within the same message. One character could mean one thing or it could represent simultaneously entire concepts. The idea of a secret cipher also fits historically into the 1835 Kirtland time period when coded names were used in the printed revelations of Doctrine and Covenants, for example. Shrivever also noted that WW Phelps had worked on similar substitution ciphers before the Egyptian papyrus even came to Kirtland. Some of the characters Phelps used in his old cipher ended up in the Egyptian Kirtland papers, but with different definitions. Okay, so that's

20:56 very very key. This is more evidence that that adds to this evidence that this is a cipher, not an attempt to translate. The Kirtland Egyptian papers project only lasted a few months before it was ultimately abandoned. The fascination with pure language and the desire to encode text in what they theorized was the pattern of the ancients failed. In a way, the attempt to create a pure language cipher key were like the 40 years of theories about the papers. It just didn't work. Shrivever said, "Okay, so in the end of quote here, what a fascinating revelation and I must ask like why have I never heard of this before?" And I'll tell you why. It's because we in the church are often too concerned about being perceived as nice. We're too concerned about not defending our faith,

21:43 and we forget that we are supposed to be as wise as serpents. Well done, William Shrivever, for revealing this incredible historical mystery. He has helped fulfill the prophecy that no weapon formed against us shall prosper as found in Doctrine of Covenant 71. What was very interesting to me was the fact that portions of Doctrine and Covenant 76 and Doctrine Covenants 88 were found in these Egyptian Kirtland papers, which seems to be a very clear indication that what we have here is not an attempt of translating Egyptian, but rather it was a an attempt to encode the revelations of Joseph Smith. a reconstruction of a more pure language closer to the Adamic language and not only this but a construction of a secret Latter-day Saint code in order to encode the revelations of the prophet Joseph Smith

22:29 to protect them from possible interception and corruption from the church's many enemies. So just to review what we have discussed thus far. Number one, we have established that Joseph Smith did not use the faximiles or the existing fragments that we have to translate the book of Abraham, but rather he used the long scroll which was destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871. Number two, we have established that the Egyptian Kirtland papers were not the means used to translate the Book of Abraham, but rather this was a project that was undertaken mostly by WW Phelps in order to construct a more pure Adamic language to be able to encode future prophecies to protect them from tampering. The next argument that we need to tackle is the idea that the book of Abraham is false and that Joseph

23:16 Smith is a false prophet because the faximiles don't match what Egyptologists say they should translate to. Again, we must reiterate to the audience that Joseph Smith did not use the surviving fragments or the faximiles alone to translate the text of the book of Abraham. The faximiles are merely illustrations that show portions of the book of Abraham. As you'll recall, Joseph offers his interpretation of what the figures in these illustrations represent. next to their corresponding number in the pearl of great price. Detractors often cite modern Egyptologists who dismiss Joseph's faximile's interpretations as nonsense. For example, critics point out that faximile number two, figure 7 is the Egyptian god men, not God sitting on his throne, as Joseph Smith said. Another common one is the idea that faximile number one is in fact a portion of the

24:02 book of breathing and has nothing to do with Abraham at all. However, critics are again not engaging with modern scholarship and something shocking even to me was that we actually do know a lot of things about the faximiles and even about the ancient traditions that surround them. I was not aware of all the fascinating things that have come to light. For example, Dr. Carrie Mulestein, an Egyptologist, states, "We know with some degree of precision the dating of the faximile number one papyrus, also known as Joseph Smith papyrus number one or JSP1, because we know exactly who the owner of this papyrus was. He lived around 200 BC and was a fairly prominent priest in thieves. Incidentally, this priest is not alone as a practitioner of Egyptian religion who possessed or used Jewish

24:49 religious texts. We can identify many others, particularly priests, from thieves. During this period of time, it was common for the texts and its accompanying picture to be separate from each other. For the Ron vignette to be associated with a text and for vignettes and text to be completely misaligned on the long scroll. Frequently, there is a mismatch between the content of a v of a vignette and the content of the text or the connection is not readily apparent. This is particularly common in the book of breathing. the type of text adjacent to faximile number one on the Joseph Smith pyra. A lot of people assume that the best way to judge these drawings is to ask what the ancient Egyptians would have said they meant. But since we obviously can't ask ancient Egyptians directly, we turn to modern

25:34 Egyptologists. That makes sense except for there's one problem. Egyptologists often don't agree. And sometimes we do have ancient Egyptian labels explain explaining similar drawings that don't match what modern scholars say they should mean. One study found that in hyposephyli like found in fact simile number two, the figures identified by ancient Egyptians themselves often don't line up with what modern Egyptologists claim they should say. So while Egyptologists are helpful, their answers aren't always perfect or definitive. And here's another issue. What if these drawings aren't meant to reflect Egyptian meanings at all? What if Abraham or his descendants took Egyptian symbols and gave them their own religious meanings? Kind of like how early Christians adopted pagan symbols

26:20 and reinterpreted them. In fact, we know Jewish and Christian writings did this with Egyptian ideas. For example, Jesus's parable of Lazarus and the rich man has deep similarities with an ancient Egyptian story. And texts like the Apocalypse of Abraham clearly show Jewish writers reworking Egyptian religious themes. So maybe instead of asking how the Egyptians would interpret the faximiles, we should ask how Abraham's people might have understood them or how later Jewish scribes adapted and preserved these symbols in a way that was meaningful to them. It's also possible that the original drawings were Israelite in style and were later copied by Egyptians who redrew them in their own artistic traditions. So there's many different possibilities. But now let's take a closer look at

27:06 faximile number one. Specifically, critics often say this drawing is just a standard image that appears next to Egyptian book of breathing texts, which are basically burial documents, not any not anything at all to do with Abraham. But that's not quite correct. This is actually the only known example of this type of drawing being connected to the book of breathing texts. That's a major red flag for the critic's theory. It strongly suggests that the drawings were weren't originally part of the book of breathing. It was something else entirely. Some scholars say it looks like an imbalming scene where a god is preparing a body for burial. But this scene is very different from the standard imbalming images that we already have examples of. For starters, the figure on the couch isn't wrapped

27:52 like a mummy or shown naked like in other scenes. Instead, he's dressed and has both arms raised, almost like he's struggling or trying to get up. That's not typical. Also, on the original Papyrus, not the printed faximile, you can see the priest standing in a position that doesn't make sense unless he's trying to stop the person from escaping. That kind of action doesn't happen in inbalming scenes. So, Joseph Smith's interpretation that Abraham was nearly sacrificed actually fits what's visually going on in this scene. Some of the closest parallels to this drawing come from an ancient Egyptian temple in Dendera. One of those scenes even includes a caption that says, "Slaughter your enemies." Others show violence, human sacrifice, or divine figures protecting someone. That sounds a lot

28:37 like the story Joseph described in the book of Abraham. And here's something also very, very fascinating. There's a Roman era papyrus showing a figure on a lion couch explicitly labeled as Abraham. So, at least in some cases, even Egyptians themselves associated these kinds of images with Abraham. That's pretty compelling evidence. But wait, didn't people say that Egyptians didn't practice human sacrifice? That was the claim for a very long time. But recent research shows that they did carry out ritual killings in some religious context, especially for similar reasons for what's described in Abraham's story. And the owner of the papyrus Joseph Smith had was a priest involved in rituals that sometimes included sacrifice. So again, the setting of Abraham's near sacrifice is

29:23 more plausible than critics have led on in the past. What about the other two faximiles? We won't go into much detail here, but the same basic points hold. Both facts number two and three contain symbols and themes that actually align pretty well with Joseph's explanation if we look at them through a Jewish or early Christian lens. Not just an Egyptian one. In fact, ancient Egyptians even connected drawings like these with Abraham. For example, they called the round hypocilus. Faximile number two a wijat eye. And in other places, they say Abraham was a pupil of that eye. Okay. In some temple scenes that resemble faximile number three, the figure on the throne, usually Osiris, is sometimes labeled as Abraham. Coincidence? It

30:09 seems very unlikely. I personally know that the book of Abraham is true based on a testimony from the Holy Spirit, not from my diligent study of history and the fascinating scholarly work that has been done about it recently. You don't necessarily need to be a great scholar to know that the Book of Mormon is true or the Book of Abraham is true because of the beautiful testimony of the Holy Spirit. But I would recommend that we be informed at least in general about what the critics say so that we can be more accurate in addressing these concerns when they might arise in our own families and in our groups of friends. Again, many of whom have fallen away from the church because of the falsehoods that have been spread about these subjects and many of you in my audience know family and friends who have fallen away. But there is a law

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