Some LDS people are embarrassed by Joseph Smith's Book of Abraham, especially the facsimiles that came from papyri the church bought during the Kirtland era. The disconnect between Joseph's handling and interpretation of the papyri and modern Egyptological knowledge causes consternation, but Joseph Smith was engaging in an age old Western practice of finding spiritual inspiration in speculations about ancient Egypt.
Should be pretty fun! Thanks to all of you who have watched these videos thus far. I have enjoyed making them, and I hope in the future to refine the craft of doing so.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
I think you are doing spectacular Kish! Just keep making and having fun and educating us all.
Thanks, Philo! I need to get more books behind me to catch up to your collection!
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
