Bit of a stupid move to "translate" something that scholars have access to and were able to translate.hauslern wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:37 amA Facebook friend wrote me this response to the question would Abraham have had right to be mummified if he was treated as a a criminal.
"Muhelstein is intellectually dishonest. The only honest way to deal with it is to say, "this ancient Egyptian funerary image was used as a catalyst by Joseph Smith to receive revelation about the sacrifice of Abraham (which may not have happened in reality, but which is divine as it was inspired of God for our spiritual edification)
And no they wouldn't have mummified a heretical criminal.
In fact mutilating the body of an enemy so he COULDN'T have an afterlife was actually done. Also they would chip out carvings of kings that they didn't want to have a name that lived on. Like Images of Hatshepsut that have been defaced etc.
Mummification was an expensive, involved process. It took much labor and materials (natron,. canopic jars, linen strips etc.). It took 70 days to complete a mummification. They wouldn't expend that on anyone but someone Kerry they revered greatly, or someone who had paid for it."
Interestingly in the Bible it says that Jacob was embalmed and mourned for 70 days in Egypt after he died:
Genesis 50:2-3
"2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days."
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Prophesying by the spirit (if you will) is not the same as translating. Reminds me of those psychic people who say what comes to their head when reading people.