Posted by:
baura
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Date: June 13, 2018 05:30AM
Facsimile 3 Wrote:
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> Quick web reference:
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https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads> /sbi/articles/Dialogue_V33N04_107.pdf
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> An excellent book on the topic: The Joseph Smith
> Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition by Robert K.
> Ritner Ph. D
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http://a.co/bowMTKT>
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> I also enjoy bringing up the spike on Omilah's
> head. This is clearly an ear from Anubis in a
> damaged portion of the papyrus that was
> incorrectly restored as a spike (WTH?!).
The original woodcut still exists for facsimile 3. The
Anubis/Olimlah character evidently had a snout (like a jackal)
which was whittled down. On the woodcut you can see how it's
been chipped away to make a rounder, more-human face. But
there's absolutely, positively no question that the original had
a representation of jackal-headed Anubis.
And, of course, the fact that JS identified the BLACK character in the vignette as a "slave" is a give-away to what was going on in JS's head. JS grew up in a country that had black. African slavery--a racial based slavery. Although slavery did exist in Egypt it wasn't racially based as was American slavery.