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< El Libro de Abraham | Papiros de José Smith | Papeles egipcios de Kirtland
All of the critical claims rely on the assertion that the KEP were created before the Book of Abraham text was produced. Critics wish to portray the KEP as a set of "working papers" used in the production of the Book of Abraham. However, the evidence indicates that the KEP was produced after the Book of Abraham text was written, and that they represent a likely attempt to "reverse engineer" the translation by matching Egyptian characters from the papyri to the revealed text in an attempt to create a dictionary of the Egyptian language. This is also the position taken by the Church: "Some evidence suggests that Joseph studied the characters on the Egyptian papyri and attempted to learn the Egyptian language. His history reports that, in July 1835, he was “continually engaged in translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham, and arranging a grammar of the Egyptian language as practiced by the ancients.” This “grammar,” as it was called, consisted of columns of hieroglyphic characters followed by English translations recorded in a large notebook by Joseph’s scribe, William W. Phelps. Another manuscript, written by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, has Egyptian characters followed by explanations." [1]
"Traducción e historicidad del libro de Abraham," Temas del Evangelio en LDS.org
Existen algunos indicios de que José estudió los caracteres de los papiros egipcios e intentó aprender el idioma egipcio. Su historia indica que, en julio de 1835, se encontraba “dedicado continuamente a traducir un alfabeto para el libro de Abraham, y preparando una gramática del idioma egipcio según la empleaban los antiguos”20. Esta “gramática”, según era conocida, consistía en columnas de caracteres jeroglíficos seguidos de traducciones al inglés registradas en un gran cuaderno por el escriba de José, William W. Phelps. Otro manuscrito de José Smith y Oliver Cowdery contiene caracteres egipcios seguidos de explicaciones. [2] —(Haga clic aquí para continuar)
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