The Pearl of Great Price
LDS scripture including the Book of Abraham
Spurious
Mormonism (LDS) · other-scripture
The Pearl of Great Price
LDS scripture including the Book of Abraham
Language: EnglishEra: 1851
Description
Includes the "Book of Abraham," which Joseph Smith claimed to translate from Egyptian papyri. Modern Egyptology has definitively shown the papyri are common funerary texts, not Abraham's writings.
Provenance
Papyri rediscovered in 1966 and translated by real Egyptologists — none of it matches Smith's "translation."
Christian Assessment
Proven forgery. Devastating to LDS claims.