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Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:20 am

From later pictures, those trepanning holes on Dr. Peterson's forehead have completely healed.

I remember when he caused the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities to cancel BYU's permission to do archaeological work at a site. See Tale of a Million Mummies Unravels, Newsweek, Dec 20, 2014:

https://www.newsweek.com/tale-million-m ... els-293615

KerryM has uploaded a discussion on the facsimiles on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESx2qtFk2No

And: https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org ... questions/

"Figure 7.... is it the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham in the form of a dove" or "the next figure is Nehebkau who offers the wedjat-eye to the sitting deity before him." See pages 274=275. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgO ... CI9Ko/edit

In the sketch it shows parts were missing or damage in the original facsimile:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ewn ... qSXCI/edit

In the published version there were images inserted for example Figure 3 in the right hand corner. What normally appears in this part is a figure in a boat with an insect:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yqg ... 5PNmc/edit

Smith seems to have taken an image from a totally different piece of Joseph Smith Papyri. Check the image in the bottom right hand corner:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-87 ... Dge0E/edit That is figure 3 in facsimile 2

Figures 22 and 23 are damaged in the sketch. In undamaged examples of the hypocephalus a four-headed figure is there:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collectio ... 5hzRooFkQA

yellowstone123 wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:01 am

He's familiar with Youtube. He posted videos in the past about the Book of Abraham.

Here is one that he posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuxTDeElxlo

An interesting response by an apologist:

iii) In summary, Latter-day Saint scholars freely admit that Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles don’t match the translations of Egyptologists, but so what? Symbols and icons are fluid and can be recycled and given new meaning; that’s exactly what happened here."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1axX ... m7PIA/edit w

He seems to warm to the catalyst theory.