5 Testimony-Affirming Similarities Between The Book of Abraham and The Apocalypse of Abraham

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Joseph Smith published the first bit of his translation of The Book of Abraham in the Church's newspaper, Times and Seasons, in 1842. Joseph died in 1844. More than fifty years later, Latter-day Saints got their hands on the first English translation of a document known as The Apocalypse of Abraham. The Church published it (in two installments) in their magazine, Improvement Era, in 1898. Researchers believe The Apocalypse of Abraham was probably first written in Hebrew or Aramaic, but during Joseph Smith's time I cannot find any record to suggest that the world at large knew of the text's existence. Decades after Joseph's death, Professor G. Nathanael Bonswetsch of the University of Goettingen (Germany) helped to bring the only (and oldest) known manuscript of The Apocalypse of Abraham into the world spotlight after he found the manuscript at the University of Moscow. It was written in Old Slavonic (a precursor to Russian). The chances that Joseph Smith knew of the existence of The Apocalypse of Abraham half a world away (and half a century away from an English translation), are virtually...

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