pt 3, rebuttal to Lost Book of Abraham, by a faithful LDS

Egyptologist Michael Rhodes discusses the problems with the anti-Mormon video, Lost Book of Abraham in his 2003 FAIR conference address.
He goes over:
-The Book of Breathings
-Translation
-Joseph Smith Papyri
-Kirtland Egyptian papers
-Amount of Papyri that have survived since Joseph Smiths time
and much more.

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[omiolo]

"This guy can rationalize all day about what he doesn't like in the DVD. There is one hard fact that proves Joseph Smith a fraud."

why don't you give specific examples of a specific translation from the facsimiles and your belief of what the correct translation is?

We can go over them one by one!

[omiolo]

"The previous mission president picked us up from the airport that was teeming with people," she said. "And of course the smell is the first thing that hits you because there's garbage everywhere, just rotting garbage.

"As we drove up to the mission home, I had been led to believe it was in an upscale neighborhood but there are pigs and chickens and goats everywhere, and people are scrambling for water."

[joneal3]

Oh wow. I can't believe how psycho this is.

[blugularis]

ROFLMAO! shee whiz

[leeuniverse]

@Kolohe86786876786786 The problem with your statement is that "common known" usage of Egyptian that standard Egytologists know is not the same as knowing all the various Egyptian texts and how such would actually relate to the Book of Abraham by Joseph Smith. Thus, what you have stated is a falsehood because there DOES exist many evidences of what Joseph did of having existed in Egyptian times and/or in relation to Abraham.

[Rockguitarnow]

What almost everyone has seemed to miss regarding the Book of Abraham, is that Joseph Smith may have been correcting the Egyptian texts as well as translating them.

[omiolo]

The sights and smells awaiting Sister Miller upon her arrival to Haiti in July 1998 are forever ingrained into her memory.

[circular05]

I like that this guy is not some slick-talking preacher using emotion and dramatic music to make his point. You can tell he's a soft-spoken scientist and a smart one at that.

[Kolohe86786876786786]

Critics however, like to look at the Hor BoB in a vacume and never want anyone to look at other papyri from the same time period, much less the same family. Heaven forbid you also show examples of egyptian/jewish syncretism like the Anastasi cache, or the Testament of Abraham. They want their audiences to be like blinder wearing horses.

[Kolohe86786876786786]

Time vindicates the Prophets. The hits can be explained by divine or satanic inspiriation. The "misses", I just kick back and say "wait and see". A perfect example of this is Leiden 384. "Lion couches, mummies and Anubis have nothing to do with Abraham", oh really?