On this episode, we dive into the actual content of the Book of Abraham in our continued examination of the history of the book. We read extracts of each chapter with a bit of study guide along the way. We cover Abraham’s story arc in the book, the deeper doctrines and teachings which come from the Book, and we examine some of the cultural milieu from whence the Book of Abraham arose. We cover Joseph’s rewriting of the Genesis creation narrative, racism within the books of Mormon canon, and the Hebrew root of ‘Kolob’. What would it take to get rid of some of these pieces of doctrine, canon, and theology in the modern Church? After that we’re joined by Lesley Butterfield of Unrighteous Dominion to discuss abuse in its many manifestations within the culture of the LDS Church.
Links:
Book of Abraham Study Guide
https://www.lds.org/manual/the-pearl-of-great-price-student-manual/the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng
Book of Abraham and Facsimiles
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/book-of-abraham-and-facsimiles-1-march-16-may-1842/11
Egyptian Human Sacrifice
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/humansac.htm
Dynastic timeline of Egypt
http://www.touregypt.net/hdyn1.htm
Mark of Cain
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/366381-what-is-the-mark-of-cain-in-the-book-of-mormon
Book of Moses
http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/old-testament-revision-1/2#full-transcript
Bible Chronology of Abraham
http://biblehub.com/timeline/
Kolob as Sirius
https://bycommonconsent.com/2006/11/18/kolob-as-sirius/
Improvement Era 1913 Kolob as Sirius
https://archive.org/stream/improvementera1605unse/improvementera1605unse_djvu.txt
‘Kolob’ as ‘Man-whore’ “Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog”
http://www.academia.edu/1167730/Aint_Nothing_But_a_Hound_Dog_The_meaning_of_the_noun_klb_in_Northwest_Semitic_Languages_in_light_of_BT_Rosh_Hashannah_4a
The Vanity of Arts and Sciences by Agrippa
https://archive.org/details/vanityartsandsc00unkngoog
Astronomy and the Book of Abraham
http://www.ldsgospeldoctrine.net/ddd/ddd-ot02.pdf
First and Second Estate doctrine
http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Second_Estate
Lesley Butterfield and Unrighteous Dominion
https://www.unrighteousdominion.org/
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