Pistol Wrote:
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> Like Mr. Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, who
> spent days locked in his house with a papyrus and
> eventually emerged speaking to his followers…
> explaining he had deciphered the ancient document
> as being the Book of Joseph.
>
> Smith purchased the document from a traveling
> horse drawn wagon outside the city of St. Louis,
> the fella driving the wagon had departed New York
> with a load of artifacts that had been part of a
> curiosity show of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The
> owner of the attraction hired the driver to travel
> to towns with the exhibition to make money showing
> the collection and sell what he could, all because
> after months on exhibit in New York the objects
> were of no interest to the public anymore.
>
> Smith’s document (purchased from the wagon driver)
> was a NK copy of the Book of the Dead, which he
> miraculously deciphered as the Book of Joseph, and
> this document became the foundational element of
> the Mormon Church.
Wiki on Joseph Smith: [
en.wikipedia.org]
Wiki on Joseph Smith Papyri: [
en.wikipedia.org]
(Apparently, we have a friend of Drovetti to thank for all of this ... [
en.wikipedia.org]. Lebolo was formerly a staunch follower of Napoleon, and, amongst other things, might later on have tried to murder Belzoni ... )
In 1968, the LDS Church magazine, "The Improvement Era", reproduced some of the papyri fragments.
In fact, there was a series of articles about the subject that year. Not every month is available on Wayback, but I eventually found two (rather bad) images in the Aug 1968 issue (see the last in the list below). I don't know if there are any more reproductions in any subsequent issues: I'd got a bit tired of searching by then.
Anyway, I don't know if anyone here can make anything of them?
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archive.org]
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archive.org]
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archive.org]
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archive.org]
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archive.org]
(August 1968: pg 53).
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