Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 18: An Approach to to the Book of Abraham

487 Pages·2016·8.61 MB·English

by  Hugh Nibley

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Contents
Illustrations
Key to Abbreviations
Hugh Nibley and the Joseph Smith Papyri
As Things Stand at the Moment
Challenge and Response
Qualified for What?
Facsimile 1: A Unique Document
Facsimile 1: By the Figures
The Unknown Abraham
The New Abraham
Judging and Prejudging the Book of Abraham
What, Exactly, Is the Purpose and Significance of the Facsimiles in the Book of
Abraham?
The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham: A Response
The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers
Conclusion: Taking Stock
Appendix: “A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price”
Illustrations
Lucy Mack Smith portrait with Facsimile 1 in background 1. JSP I mounted on
backing
2. Detail of Lucy Mack Smith portrait 3. Facsimile 2, Church Historian’s copy 4.
Facsimile 2, Hedlock engraving 5. Meux hypocephalus
6. Franklin S. Spalding
7. Facsimile 1, July 1842 Millennial Star 8. JSP VI, swallow vignette
9. JSP III, judgment scene
10. JSP I, 1842 and 1907 versions of Facsimile 1
11. Myers and Nash hypocephali 12. Facsimile 2 and Vienna hypocephalus 13.
Double-headed figures
14. Two birds over a lion couch 15. JSP I, detail of Abraham’s hands 16.
Egyptian canonical drawing of hands and thumbs 17. Lion-couch scenes at
Philae 18. Close parallel to Facsimile 19. Egyptian canonical drawing of
figure with guidelines 20. Pharoah on lion couch, shrine of Opet 21.
Chaldean bed on Assyrian bronze amulet 22. Persian-style lion-paw throne
leg and Darius on lion-footed chair 23. Old Kingdom lion altars and couch
24. Ivory headrest, lion couches, tomb of Tutankhamun 25. Bed of Osiris
and altars
26. Archaic funeral rite
27. Conception, birth, and nursing of Hatshepsut on lion couches 28. Temple of
Opet at Karnak
29. Flint knives
30. Mummy of Osiris on back of crocodile, Philae 31. Ba-bird 32. Hawk delivers
Osiris in lion-couch scenes 33. Facsimiles 1, 2, 3 in sequence 34. Temple
of Opet, three rooms 35. Busiris and Heracles
36. Facsimile 1, Facsimile 2, JSP III, four canopic figures 37. Four sons of
Horus as deities 38. Four birds to the four corners 39. Louvre N 3525
hypocephalus, four-headed ram 40. Four sons of Horus chart
41. Four nations of man, tomb of Seti I 42. Northern polar stars (2000 B.C., A.D.
2000) 43. Gold vessel with four lotuses, tomb of Nebamun 44. Nefertem
lion as guard, Philae 45. Passport approval by Khnumhotep 46. Saqqara
panels and pillars 47. Pylons and niches as pillars of heaven 48. Ramses III
on pillars of heaven 49. Philip Arrhidaeus on pillars of heaven 50.
Crocodile surrounded by zigzags 51. Zigzag lines as expanse of the
heavens 52. Zigzag lines as water, tomb of Ramses IX
53. Zigzag lines as firmament and waters of life 54. Herman Witsius’s
Aegyptiaca and William Hales’s Chronology 55. Shrine to sun-god of
Pharaoh Niuserre 56. Map of Mesopotamia and Egypt 57. Metternich Stela
58. Facsimile 1
59. Facsimile 3
60. Kirtland Egyptian Papers
61. Egyptian Manuscript #1
62. Egyptian Manuscript #3
63. Egyptian Manuscript #4
64. Egyptian Manuscript #6
65. Egyptian Manuscript #7
66. Book of Abraham Manuscript #2
67. Book of Abraham Manuscript #3
68. Book of Abraham Manuscript #1
69. Book of Abraham Manuscript #4
Key to Abbreviations
AfO Archiv für Orientforschung
ASAE Annales du service des antiquités de l’Égypte
BD Book of the Dead
BE Bibliothèque égyptologique
CdE Chronique d’Égypte
CT Coffin Text, as appearing in Adriaan de Buck, The Egyptian Coffin Texts
CWHN The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley
IE Improvement Era
IFAO Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire
JEA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
JEOL Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap (Gezelschap):
Ex oriente lux
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JSP Joseph Smith Papyrus (Papyri)
MDAIK Mitteilungen des deutschen archäologischen Instituts—Abteilung Kairo
MIFAO Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’institut français d’archéologie
orientale du Caire
MMAF Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Mission archéologique
française du Caire
PG J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Graeca, 162 vols.
(Paris: Garnier, 1857–86)
PL J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina, 221 vols.
(Paris: Garnier, 1844–64)
PO François Nau and René Graffin, eds., Patrologia Orientalis (Paris: Librarie
de Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1903– )
PT Pyramid Texts
RdE Revue d’égyptologie