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Response to "The Foundation for LDS Scholarship: Writing Prompt 2"
Response to claims made in "The Foundation for LDS Scholarship: Writing Prompt 2"
Summary: The authors of the website ask the following question:
Writing Prompt 2: Should Mormons be alarmed about the fact that Joseph Smith's translation of the hieroglyphics shown in the Book of Abraham differs completely from the translation made by Egyptian scholars? And should they be concerned by the evidence that Abraham couldn't possibly have written them "in his own hand" as claimed in the Pearl of Great Price?
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