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by hauslern
Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:00 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Book Honoring Midgley
Replies: 99
Views: 15674

Re: New Book Honoring Midgley

In an article in the Religious Education KerryM writes "https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1822&context=facpub "Yes. Joseph identifies certain people in Facsimile 3 and points out that their names are indicated by the hieroglyphs over their heads. As I translate these hierog...
by hauslern
Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:22 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: New Book Honoring Midgley
Replies: 99
Views: 15674

New Book Honoring Midgley

Dan Petersen announces - "I’m pleased to announce that I’m now in possession of a number of copies of a Festschrift in honor of Professor Louis C. Midgley, a volume that we expect to become more generally available sometime during the month of March (when we will also make a COVID-compliant formal p...
by hauslern
Wed Feb 10, 2021 11:11 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: John Gee leaves bizarre message as he steps down from editorship, also his inappropriate Ritner review
Replies: 104
Views: 17792

Re: John Gee leaves bizarre message as he steps down from editorship, also his inappropriate Ritner review

Mormonstories made this announcement

Civil War: John Gee vs. the Joseph Smith Papers Project
1 waiting•Scheduled for Feb 13, 2021
by hauslern
Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:36 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DanP n why you are wasting your time
Replies: 8
Views: 1579

Re: DanP n why you are wasting your time

I do not know his email address. I have commented on his blog.
by hauslern
Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:55 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DanP n why you are wasting your time
Replies: 8
Views: 1579

DanP n why you are wasting your time

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/introduction-volume-6-the-modest-but-important-end-of-apologetics/ Dan delves into the value of apologetics after discussing the work of one writer as to whether it was useful, "Our arguments, no matter how learned and no matter how sound, can’t force belief...
by hauslern
Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:00 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Thoughts of John Gee on the Book of Abraham
Replies: 19
Views: 3034

Re: Thoughts of John Gee on the Book of Abraham

Gee's latest on the Book of Abraham. https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/fantasy-and-reality-in-the-translation-of-the-book-of-abraham/ Just before the publication of Dan Vogel's book. Gee concludes "I have shown that the theory of translation propounded in The Joseph Smith Papers Revelations ...
by hauslern
Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:32 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Thoughts of John Gee on the Book of Abraham
Replies: 19
Views: 3034

Re: Thoughts of John Gee on the Book of Abraham

There was a report of a new find in Egypt with a description of a long Book of the Dead. I wonder how Gee will respond to that?
https://www.livescience.com/queen-templ ... egypt.html
by hauslern
Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:19 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Thoughts of John Gee on the Book of Abraham
Replies: 19
Views: 3034

Thoughts of John Gee on the Book of Abraham

Interesting interview with Gee and his experience at Yale. He does not mention Ritner. https://www.fromthedesk.org/10-questions-john-gee/ Note how he argues for the Book of Abraham "The first is that the fragments that we currently have must be the papyri from which Joseph Smith translated the Book ...