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27393
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English
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Joseph Smith's Biblical View of Egypt
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Approaching Antiquity : Joseph Smith and the Ancient World
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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449-473
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It seems worthwhile, then, to examine what connections Joseph Smith made between the Bible and the Egyptian antiquities he came to possess. The most immediate and important connection is Joseph's quick association of the papyri with Abraham, thus providing Joseph Smith's followers with new writings from that foundational Biblical character. This association of the papyri with Abraham is also accompanied by many associations Joseph Smith presumably made between the three facsimiles of Egyptian vignettes that were published along with explanations that tied them in with Abraham. He also believed that the papyri contained some of the writings of Joseph of Egypt, but never published anything about this, nor do we find record that he translated any of it. Because these topics have received a great deal of attention elsewhere, here we will focus solely on connections made between Joseph's papyri and the Bible that were never published by Joseph Smith. [From the text]