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English
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The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri : A Complete Edition : P. JS 1-4 and the Hypocephalus of Sheshonq
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Salt Lake City, UT
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The Smith Pettit Foundation
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283
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This book marks the publication of the first, full translation of the so-called Joseph Smith Egyptian papyri translated into English. These papyri comprise The Breathing Permit of Hor, The Book of the Dead of Ta-Sherit-Min, The Book of the Dead Chapter 125ofNefer-ir-nebu, The Book of the Dead of Amenhotep, and The Hypocephalus of Sheshonq, as well as some loose fragments and patches. The papyri were acquired by members of the LDS Church in the 1830s in Kirtland, Ohio, and rediscovered in the mid-1960s in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They served as the basis for Joseph Smith's Book of Abraham, published in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842 and later canonized.
As Robert K. Ritner, Professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, explains: The translation and publication of the Smith papyri must be accessible not merely to Egyptologists but to non-specialists within and outside of the LDS religious community for whom the Book of Abraham was produced. Dr. Ritner provides not only his own original translations but gives variant translations by other researchers to demonstrate better the evolving process of decipherment. He also includes specialized transliterations and his own informed commentary on the accuracy of past readings. These assessments, he notes, are neither equivocal nor muted. At the same time, they do not have a partisan basis originating in any religious camp.
The present volume includes insightful introductory essays by noted scholars Christopher Woods, Associate Professor of Sumerology, University of Chicago (The Practice of Egyptian Religion at Ur of the Chaldees), Marc Coenen, Egyptian Studies Ph. D., University of Leuven, Belgium( The Ownership and Dating of Certain Joseph Smith Papyri ), and H. Michael Marquardt, author of"The Revelations of Joseph Smith: Text and Commentary"( Joseph Smith s Egyptian Papers: A History ). It contains twenty-eight photographic plates, including color images of the primary papyri (with corrected alignment for Papyrus Joseph Smith 2) and other relevant items."
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A Guide to the Book of Abraham
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri : An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations
Curses and Marks : Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith's Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
Joseph Smith and Egyptian Artifacts : A Model for Evaluating the Prophetic Nature of the Prophet's Ideas about the Ancient World
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Papyri and Presumptions : A Careful Examination of the Eyewitness Accounts Associated with the Joseph Smith Papyri
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Scriptures with Pictures : Methodology, Unexamined Assumptions, and the Study of the Book of Abraham
"That which is Lost" : Assessing the State of Preservation of the Joseph Smith Papyri
The Ghost and the Machine : Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
"We'll Sing and We'll Shout!" : Who is the Real W. W. Phelps?