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Improvement Era 26, no. 5 (March 1923)
Grant, Heber J.
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Egyptology and the Book of Mormon, II
Title
Egyptology and the Book of Mormon, II
Magazine
Improvement Era
Publication Type
Magazine Article
Year of Publication
1923
Authors
Webb, Robert C. (Primary)
Pagination
437–447
Date Published
March 1923
Volume
26
Issue Number
5
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Abstract
This series proposes that the characters on the gold plates were derived from Hieratic or Demotic Egyptian (Mormon 9:32-33). Analysis of other major written languages available ca. 600 B. C.—i.e. Phoenician-Hebrew, Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform—reveals that they do not meet the writing requirements outlined in the Book of Mormon itself. The nature of the gold plates as an alloy is also discussed. The second part covers cuneiform and the alloy of the plates.
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Subject Keywords
Language
Tumbaga
Gold Plates
Metallurgy
Linguistics
Egyptology
Linguistic Analysis
Language - Reformed Egyptian
Language - Hebrew
Writing System
Language - Egyptian
Language – Semitic
Characters
Language - Semitic
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