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By Hugh Nibley
This is often the first-- and nonetheless the single book-length remark at the Joseph Smith Papyri. during this long-awaited re-creation, with accelerated textual content and various illustrations, Professor Nibley indicates that the papyri aren't the resource of the ebook of Abraham. instead of targeting what the papyri aren't, as so much commentators have performed, Nibley masterfully explores what the papyri are and what they intended in precedent days. He demonstrates how those historic Egyptian papyri comprise a message that's of specific curiosity to Latter-day Saints.
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6 16 Vignettes from P. Louvre N. 3284 17 P. Louvre N. ty carrying the solar-bark 127 Ba-birds and solar disk on lions 128 Contest with the Apep serpent 129 Serpent on the sand and solar ship 130 Judgment scene of lady before Osiris 131 Deceased led by Aamut to judgment 132 Deceased and wife towing Sokar-ship 133 Sokar-hawk and winged Khepri-beetle 134 Sokar-ship over two thousand years 135 Mummy wrappings and embracing divinities 136 The royal embrace of pharaoh by the gods 137 Tutankhamun embraced by Osiris 138 Ka holds infant pharaoh 139 Priest embraced by his ba-bird 140 Re-Horakhty sails over the heavens 141 Seti I worships Re-Horakhty and Osiris 142 Jupiter Heliopolitanus with uplifted right arm 143 Royal initiation into the divine family 144 Seti I takes the hand of Osiris 145 Ani in the presence of Osiris 146 Amon-Re embraces the pharaoh 147 Osiris as djed-pillar 148 Resurrection and ascension of Christ Color Plates 1 Joseph Smith Papyrus I 2 Joseph Smith Papyrus XI 3 Joseph Smith Papyri X 4 Joseph Smith Papyrus II 5 Joseph Smith Papyrus III 6 Joseph Smith Papyrus IV 7 Joseph Smith Papyri V and VI 8 Seti I anoints the Osiris standard 9 Seti I unwraps the image of Osiris 10 Birth of the sun 11 Userhat and Lady of the Sycamore Key to Abbreviations Rule of the Community (Manual of Discipline) ÄA Ägyptologische Abhandlungen AfO Archiv für Orientforschung APOT Robert H.
Ty carrying the solar-bark 127 Ba-birds and solar disk on lions 128 Contest with the Apep serpent 129 Serpent on the sand and solar ship 130 Judgment scene of lady before Osiris 131 Deceased led by Aamut to judgment 132 Deceased and wife towing Sokar-ship 133 Sokar-hawk and winged Khepri-beetle 134 Sokar-ship over two thousand years 135 Mummy wrappings and embracing divinities 136 The royal embrace of pharaoh by the gods 137 Tutankhamun embraced by Osiris 138 Ka holds infant pharaoh 139 Priest embraced by his ba-bird 140 Re-Horakhty sails over the heavens 141 Seti I worships Re-Horakhty and Osiris 142 Jupiter Heliopolitanus with uplifted right arm 143 Royal initiation into the divine family 144 Seti I takes the hand of Osiris 145 Ani in the presence of Osiris 146 Amon-Re embraces the pharaoh 147 Osiris as djed-pillar 148 Resurrection and ascension of Christ Color Plates 1 Joseph Smith Papyrus I 2 Joseph Smith Papyrus XI 3 Joseph Smith Papyri X 4 Joseph Smith Papyrus II 5 Joseph Smith Papyrus III 6 Joseph Smith Papyrus IV 7 Joseph Smith Papyri V and VI 8 Seti I anoints the Osiris standard 9 Seti I unwraps the image of Osiris 10 Birth of the sun 11 Userhat and Lady of the Sycamore Key to Abbreviations Rule of the Community (Manual of Discipline) ÄA Ägyptologische Abhandlungen AfO Archiv für Orientforschung APOT Robert H.
Though they were unable to furnish any statement from the Prophet to that effect, they assumed it must be so because somebody in Kirtland tried to connect the two documents. ) The doughty crusaders against the authenticity of the Book of Abraham, who wanted to pin the whole thing on Joseph Smith without making any serious attempt to look into the matter, often protested that they were animated by one motive only: an unqualified and overmastering love of truth. Yet, strangely, their impassioned project never got beyond the purely negative point of proclaiming the fraudulence of the Book of Abraham and its author.