32: Book of Abraham, Part 3: A look at the text itself
LDS Discussions - Mormon Truth Claims Examined
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Is the Book of Abraham Written by Joseph Smith?
The book of Abraham is written by a modern source. Joseph Smith used the exact transliteration that Joshua Sacious had used and taught, which means it's a form of Hebrew that might not go all the way back to when it was first a written language. Even if Abraham had written this stuff on a papyrus, he's doing it at a time when the Hebrew language hadn't yet been invented. Nemo: There is no way that something in 1800 BCE in Hebrew is going to survive 800 years and be written down.
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