The KEPA Manuscripts as Oral Dictation Transcripts

[_TBSkeptic]

Your closed mind...

Riiiight. And you're mind is open enough to consider the possibility that the book of abraham is a fraud, right?

[_William Schryver]

Furthermore, the assumptions upon which the critics' arguments have always been based (that Joseph Smith believed the Book of Breathings to be the Egyptian source for the Book of Abraham) are incorrect.

Am I correct in guessing that you explaining your rationale for this would be a futile endeavor (and thus, I should not bother asking)?

I explain my rationale here: The Meaning and Purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers

Obviously, if the Alphabet & Grammar is dependent on a pre-existing text of the Book of Abraham, what people have believed to be the "translation manuscripts" are nothing of the sort, thus the assumed linkage to the Book of Breathings text on the papyri is moot.

[_TBSkeptic]

Obviously, if the Alphabet & Grammar is dependent on a pre-existing text of the Book of Abraham, what people have believed to be the "translation manuscripts" are nothing of the sort, thus the assumed linkage to the Book of Breathings text on the papyri is moot.

If that were the only linkage, you may have a point.

[_William Schryver]

Obviously, if the Alphabet & Grammar is dependent on a pre-existing text of the Book of Abraham, what people have believed to be the "translation manuscripts" are nothing of the sort, thus the assumed linkage to the Book of Breathings text on the papyri is moot.

If that were the only linkage, you may have a point.

Please elaborate.

[_TBSkeptic]

Please elaborate.

Sorry, but I have made a solemn resolution to not engage in futile endeavors.

[_William Schryver]

Please elaborate.

Sorry, but I have made a solemn resolution to not engage in futile endeavors.

A wise decision on your part.

[_Kevin Graham]

Obviously, if the Alphabet & Grammar is dependent on a pre-existing text of the Book of Abraham, what people have believed to be the "translation manuscripts" are nothing of the sort, thus the assumed linkage to the Book of Breathings text on the papyri is moot.

Obviously... if.

But until you produce the original document on which this was allegedly dependent, reasonable people are compelled to follow the evidence and not rely on desperate apologetic word counts and self-refuting arguments about similarities from other books. All this proves is these works all had the same source: Joseph Smith's imagination. No one outside BYU would see it any other way. No one.

[_TBSkeptic]

A wise decision on your part.

If nothing else, at least you're willing to admit to your closed-mindedness.