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|L1=Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham"
|L2=Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham?
|L3=Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death?
|L4=Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of?
|L5=Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri?
|L6=John Gee, "Book of Abraham, I Presume"
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{{:Source:Gospel Topics:Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham:Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham}}
{{:Question: What is the relationship of the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Book of Abraham?}}
{{:Question: What happened to the papyri after Joseph's death?}}
{{:Question: What do the Joseph Smith papyri fragments consist of?}}
{{:Question: Did Abraham himself pen the Joseph Smith Papyri?}}
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|link=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2012-fair-conference/2012-book-of-abraham-i-presume
|author=John Gee
|authorlink=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/authors/gee-john
|title=Book of Abraham, I Presume
|publication=Proceedings of the 2012 FAIR Conference
|date=August 2012
|summary=So let’s start with the relationship of the Book of Abraham to the Joseph Smith Papyri. There are three different points of view here. One, that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham from the papyri that we have. Almost no one really believes this. But to hear the critics tell it this is the official position of the church. It’s not. Nor do most members of the church subscribe to this so far as I can tell. So, it’s a strawman. The second one is that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham from papyri that we do not currently have and this is the position that most accords with the historical evidence. And the third one is that Joseph Smith received the Book of Abraham strictly by revelation and it did not come from the papyri at all. This position seems to be popular among Latter-day Saints but seems to have no historical evidence to support it.
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