The book our resident Mormon would rather you didn't know...the reason why
he keeps evading Dan's questions about it and saying that a non-mormon
wouldn't understand.

FYI...the fraud in a nutshell

The Lost Book of Abraham

This is the single most important book in LDS history, because this is one
irrefutable piece of direct physical evidence that proves that Joseph Smith
Jr. was lying about his ability to translate ancient texts. For the LDS to
believe that the Book of Abraham (and thus the Book of Mormon) is what
Joseph Smith Jr. claimed, they must ignore the evidence, no, they must
believe Joseph Smith Jr. in spite of the evidence of the Book of Abraham.
Where is the discernment of truth in the LDS church?

In 1835 Joseph Smith Jr. once more called on ‘the saints’ to fund a project
for ‘the church’ -- purchasing mummies and other Egyptian artifacts from
Michael Chandler for $2,400, because Joseph Smith Jr. claimed that the
papyri scrolls and other pieces of the artifacts held the lost books of
Abraham and Joseph.

Joseph Smith Jr. toiled for months, ‘translating’ the Egyptian
hieroglyphics on the papyri, ultimately producing the book of Abraham that
is now found in the Pearl of Great Price.

Egyptologists from 1859 until now, such as Theodule Devaria of the Louvre,
and Samuel A. B. Mercer of Western Theological Seminary, and James H.
Breasted of the University of Chicago, and W. M. Flinders Petrie of London
University, have consistently refuted any and all ‘translation’ performed
by Joseph Smith Jr. based on the materials produced by Smith.

Recapping these refutals, in 2001 Robert K. Ritner, Ph.D., Associate
Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago, was commissioned to
perform a full translation of the papyri (rediscovered in the Spring of
1966). He indicated that the papyri are funeral documents dedicated to the
resurrection of a deceased Egyptian priest, and that Abraham is not
mentioned once. He also mentioned that the narrative style of the Book of
Abraham, as written, does not correspond to Egyptian verbiage.

In the reconstruction work performed by Joseph Smith Jr. on facsimile 1 in
the Book of Abraham, he represented the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis
with a human head, and put a knife in Anubis’ hands, which is completely
out of context for the resurrection scene of the original documents. Also,
his interpretation of the papyri represented by facsimile 3 in the Pearl of
Great Price has nothing to do with the papyrus documents.

It is clear to Egyptologists and to the casual observer that Joseph Smith
Jr. was not able to translate Egyptian.

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You're right, Ed, it is very difficult to understand. Difficult to
understand how human beings who claim to be more intelligent than a banana
slug could fall for such crap.

 
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