32: Book of Abraham, Part 3: A look at the text itself
LDS Discussions - Mormon Truth Claims Examined
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The Book of Abraham - Written by His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
In the header of the book of Abraham, it says written by his own hand upon papyrus. So there's no wiggle room to say that it wasn't really him or it was someone else later down the line. And we already know the papyrus dates to long after Abraham would have lived. There's no way he would have written on the papyrus in his own hand because the papyrus dated to like a thousand years later. The entire introduction to the idea of Egypt is not historical and is also based on kind of a more modern retelling of this global flood.
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