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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 Mormon and the Document Hypothesis

The book of Abraham suffers from all of those problems that the book of Mormon does or even the Bible as we'll get into. One anachronism tells you that a text is not what it claims to be with regards to time and place. Any use of Genesis or the King James Bible in the book of Abraham is already in an anchronism. The term Chaldeans means land on which his father died before he did. And scholars can tell that Genesis was originally compiled and written in Hebrew until this time.

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