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Description
In July 1835 at Kirtland Ohio, a traveling antiquities dealer brought to Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, four Egyptian mummies and several rolls of papyri. Upon inspection Smith determined that one of the rolls contained a lost record of the patriarch Abraham. After purchasing these artifacts for $2400 Smith generated through translation five chapters that appeared during March 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois in the Times and Seasons, a Mormon periodical, under the title “The Book of Abraham”. This book has since become a canonized text of scripture for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A Textual History of the Book of Abraham: Manuscripts and Editions serves as a source book for interested researchers and scholars. It includes a brief introduction to the Book of Abraham and a detailed record of textual variants from the time it first appeared in the Times and Seasons until its latest edition (1981). This volume also produces for the first time typographic transcriptions with facing grayscale images of the surviving handwritten manuscripts of the Book of Abraham. Several appendices offer additional helpful resources such as contemporary accounts related to the translation of the Book of Abraham and a full set of color high-res images of the surviving Abraham manuscripts. A valuable reference tool for scholars interested in researching the textual history of the Book of Abraham.
Copyright Status
© 2010 Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
ISBN
9780842527743
Owning Institution
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Publisher
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Publication Date
2010
Disciplines
Religion | Religious Education
Recommended Citation
Hauglid, Brian M., "A Textual History of the Book of Abraham: Manuscripts and Editions" (2010). Maxwell Institute Publications. 77.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/77