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{{Epigraph|An example of what I am talking about is the recent discovery of the papyrus scrolls from which Joseph Smith was presumed to have translated the book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price. Modern scholars, looking at the scrolls, found nothing they considered to be similar to that book. I remarked at the time that such a finding didn't bother me in the least. God doesn't need a crib sheet in the form of a papyrus scroll to reveal Abraham's thoughts and words to Joseph Smith, with any degree of precision He considers necessary for His purposes. If the only function of the scrolls was to awaken the Prophet to the idea of receiving such inspiration, they would have fulfilled their purpose.<br><br>
&mdash;Henry Eyring, ''Reflections of a Scientist'', p. 46}}
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{{:Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated?}}
{{:Source:Parrish:Painseville Republican:1838:penned down the translation of the Egyptian Heiroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration of Heaven}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer:History:Joseph the Seer saw these Records and by the revelation of Jesus Christ could translate these records}}
{{:Source:Woodruff:1842:to translate through the urim & Thummim Ancient records & Hyeroglyphics as old as Abraham}}
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|subject=When did the Church disclose that the Joseph Smith Papyri were an Egyptian funerary text?
|summary=Critics of the Church often assert that the Church did not identify the Joseph Smith Papyri as an Egyptian funerary text until after Egyptologists examined them. They also claim that the Church is hiding or "covering up" the papyri's actual contents. Both assertions are incorrect. In fact, the Church ran a multi-part series with color pictures of the papyri in the ''Improvement Era'' (the predecessor to the ''Ensign'') less than two months after they were received from the Metropolitan Museum.<ref>''Improvement Era'' (January 1968).</ref> The series repeatedly affirmed that the recovered papyri contained Egyptian funerary materials and not the text of Book of Abraham. Although the article erroneously identified the papyrus as the Egyptian "Book of the Dead," it was later correctly identified as a "Book of Breathings." 
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[[es:Jeffrey R. Holland/"Todo lo que estoy diciendo es que lo consiguió traducido consiguió traducido a la palabra de Dios"]]
[[pt:Jeffrey R. Holland/"Tudo o que eu estou dizendo é que o que foi traduzido foi traduzida para a palavra de Deus"]]