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|summary=The author notes that, "Egyptologists have found the source material for the Book of Abraham to be nothing more than a common pagan Egyptian funerary text for a deceased man named “Hor” in 1st century AD. In other words, it was a common Breathing Permit that the Egyptians buried with their dead. It has absolutely nothing to do with Abraham or anything Joseph claimed in his translation for the Book of Abraham." | |summary=The author notes that, "Egyptologists have found the source material for the Book of Abraham to be nothing more than a common pagan Egyptian funerary text for a deceased man named “Hor” in 1st century AD. In other words, it was a common Breathing Permit that the Egyptians buried with their dead. It has absolutely nothing to do with Abraham or anything Joseph claimed in his translation for the Book of Abraham." | ||
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Citation abuse in the original Letter to a CES Director
A FAIR Analysis of: Letter to a CES Director A work by author: Jeremy Runnells
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Overview
The following articles demonstrate citation abuse in the Letter to a CES Director. In some cases, the author has taken a single citation, extracted different portions of it, and then assigned different references in order to make it appear that the data comes from multiple sources, thus producing two different "citations" instead of a single one. In other cases, only the portions of the citation that support the author's position are extracted and displayed (this is known as "quote mining"), while other data in the same citation which does not support the author's position is ignored. These articles provide detail on how the citations were manipulated.