32: Book of Abraham, Part 3: A look at the text itself
LDS Discussions - Mormon Truth Claims Examined
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Are the Uriman Thummim in the Book of Abraham Genuine?
The Curse of Ham was used by many in Joseph Smith's day to defend and rationalize slavery. In the book of Abraham, it's being written as if to bolster Joseph Smith's own use of AP slash Eirstone to translate records just as Abraham is supposed to be doing to receive revelation. The way he describes using the Uriman Thummim is not what the UrimAn Thummim ever were. And so they're both doing something that we could show, at least in Joseph's time, you know, didn't work because Joseph claimed to see treasure doing the same method that obviously he never found.
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