Joseph Smith And Restoration Of Missing Characters In Sensen Lacunae

[DragonLancer]

http://egyptianalphabetandgrammar.blogspot.com/2015/08/iota-toues-zip-zi-land-of-egypt.html

 

This demonstrates that Joseph Smith actually did know what he was doing with his restoration of characters in the lacunae in the Sensen Papyrus.

 

 

[Robert F. Smith]

http://egyptianalphabetandgrammar.blogspot.com/2015/08/iota-toues-zip-zi-land-of-egypt.html

 

This demonstrates that Joseph Smith actually did know what he was doing with his restoration of characters in the lacunae in the Sensen Papyrus.

Hi, Ed.

In your reconstruction of matters, it might be best to cite the parts of the Joseph Smith Papers Project by the actual URL where the sources are to be found rather than the generic website.  Also, I recommend that you attribute each page of KEP to the actual scribe who wrote it, rather than making an assumption that Joseph Smith did it.  

Finally, in your semantic and etymological meanderings, it might be best to follow up-to-date non-Mormon lexical sources and grammars for Egyptian and Hebrew words and meanings.  No matter how clever or plausible a reconstruction might be, it requires the grace of "Gentile respectability" in order for it to be broadly acceptable.

[DragonLancer]

Hi, Ed.

In your reconstruction of matters, it might be best to cite the parts of the Joseph Smith Papers Project by the actual URL where the sources are to be found rather than the generic website.  Also, I recommend that you attribute each page of KEP to the actual scribe who wrote it, rather than making an assumption that Joseph Smith did it.  

Finally, in your semantic and etymological meanderings, it might be best to follow up-to-date non-Mormon lexical sources and grammars for Egyptian and Hebrew words and meanings.  No matter how clever or plausible a reconstruction might be, it requires the grace of "Gentile respectability" in order for it to be broadly acceptable.

 

Robert, your suggestions are very useful and appreciated.  Thanks.

 

Although, I philosophically disagree with the notion that I ought to attribute the KEP documents to a scribe that wrote them, because Joseph Smith is responsible for the whole endeavor as he is for the whole Book of Mormon manuscript endeavor when he had scribes.  Nobody would ever say that Oliver Cowdery and the rest of the scribes that served in writing the Book of Mormon manuscripts are responsible for the content.  Yet, we have Missing Papyrus theorists attributing KEP documents to the scribes rather than Joseph Smith.  To me, that is just not the case.  So I disagree with all that believe that on that point.  Here is my article on that.  Thanks again for the feedback.  When I get around to it in the future I will certainly try to do some of what you suggest here in my various articles on the blog.

 

http://egyptianalphabetandgrammar.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-question-of-scribes-did-they-really.html

[theplains]

In your reconstruction of matters, it might be best to cite the parts of the Joseph Smith Papers Project by the actual URL where the sources are to be found rather than the generic website. 

 

Does the LDS Church view the Joseph Smith Papers Project as authoritative?  If yes,

please provide a source.

 

Thanks,

Jim

[The Nehor]

Edit: Nope, not worth it.

Edited September 3, 2015 by The Nehor

[Kaleb Webb]

 

Does the LDS Church view the Joseph Smith Papers Project as authoritative?  If yes,

please provide a source.

 

Thanks,

Jim

Funded by the church, links to it on the church website and in the gospel topics essays, papers on the bulletin boards in church buildings advertising the website...

[Robert F. Smith]

Does the LDS Church view the Joseph Smith Papers Project as authoritative?  If yes,

please provide a source.

 

Thanks,

Jim

Hi Jim,

Since the LDS Church is not an individual human, it cannot have an opinion on something.  That is a fallacy I encounter frequently on this board.  I'm not sure where you got the idea that anyone has claimed the Joseph Smith Papers Project is authoritative in some measure.  It is probably no more authoritative than any other organized effort to publish old documents with photos, transcripts, and explanatory notes.  Such efforts are usually no better than the scholars who produce them, the main idea being to allow the  public easy access to documents otherwise difficult to find and understand.

 

Two such scholars (Royal Skousen & Robin Jensen) will be presenting their research publicly on Sept 8 at 7 pm at the Hinckley Center at BYU.  It concerns the next two volumes of the Joseph Smith Papers series, this time the Printer's MS of the Book of Mormon.  Please feel free to show up and ask any questions you like.