Isis goddess of egypt biography of abraham
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The Book of Breathings is my absolute favorite title of some of the ancient Egyptian “books of the dead.” The Books of Breathing are from a later period and were most popular during the Greco-Roman period in Egypt, though the earliest known copy has been dated to about 350 BCE.
The Book of Breathings tells us that it was…
…composed by Isis for Her brother Osiris to make His soul to live, to make His body to live, to make young all His members anew, that He might reach the horizon together with His father the Sun, that His soul might rise in heaven like the disk of the Moon, that His body might shine in Orion in the body of Nuet; that moreover these things might happen to Osiris <name of the deceased>; would that thou wouldst hide this thing, so as not to have it read to anyone. It is helpful to the one in the place of the dead; he shall live anew in truth, millions of times.
The Book of Breathings
The Book of Breathings contains versions of formulae also found in the Book of the Dead as well as new compositions, commentary, and reworkings of older formulae. Included under this category of Books of Breathing are works more fully titled the Document or Permit of Breathing Isis Made for Her Brother Osiris, the First Book of Breathing, al
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Criticism of the Book of Abraham
Scholarly assessment of Mormon text
The Book of Abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by the Latter Day Saints (LDS) movement founder Joseph Smith that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was "a translation of some ancient records ... purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus".[1] The work was first published in 1842 and today is a canonical part of the Pearl of Great Price. Since its printing, the Book of Abraham has been a source of controversy. Numerous non-LDS Egyptologists, beginning in the mid-19th century, have heavily criticized Joseph Smith's translation and explanations of the facsimiles, unanimously concluding that his interpretations are inaccurate. They have also asserted that missing portions of the facsimiles were reconstructed incorrectly by Smith.
The controversy intensified in the late 1960s when portions of the Joseph Smith Papyri were located. Translations of the papyri revealed the rediscovered portions bore no relation to the Book of Abraham text. LDS apologist Hugh Nibley and Brigham Young University Egyptologists John L. Gee and Mi