Item Detail
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32703
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English
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"Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born": An Egyptian Context for the Election of Abraham
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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
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2021
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22
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Provo, UT
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BYU Religious Studies Center
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101-121
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"While the Book of Abraham’s teachings are certainly theologically valuable for modern Latter-day Saints, they are tethered to a purported historical person living in a purported historical region of the world and a purported period of time: the patriarch Abraham living in the ancient Near East most likely sometime shortly after the turn of the second millennium BC (perhaps during the nineteenth century BC). Inasmuch as the Book of Abraham professes to be 'a translation of . . . the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt,' we might ask whether the teachings given in the book converge with what we know about the intellectual, political, and religious climate of its purported historical setting. While some of the Book of Abraham’s historical claims remain debated, in other ways we do find affirmative answers to the query posed above. In this paper I offer an additional example of how a teaching unique to the Book of Abraham—the description of the eponymous patriarch’s foreordination and divine election—finds a comfortable setting in the ancient world." [Author]
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