The translation of the Book of Abraham by Joseph Smith is a topic of significant discussion within and outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to Church doctrine, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham by divine inspiration rather than through conventional linguistic methods. The Book of Abraham emerged from Egyptian papyri that Joseph Smith obtained in 1835 and was translated and published in 1842. It was declared part of the canon of scripture in 1880 as part of the Pearl of Great Price (Gospel Topics Essays, 2016). The Church acknowledges that Joseph Smith's
The question of whether the Book of Abraham was accurately translated by Joseph Smith has been a subject of scrutiny and debate for many years. Historical and scholarly investigations suggest that Joseph Smith's process of translating the Book of Abraham was not conventional in the linguistic sense. Upon acquiring Egyptian papyri in 1835, Smith stated that these contained the writings of Abraham and Joseph of Egypt. However, after the papyri resurfaced in 1967 and were examined by modern Egyptologists, it was determined that the texts were common funerary documents, such as the Book of Breathi