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Pearl of Great Price -> The Book of Abraham

If Joseph Smith’s translation of the Egyptian parchment could be discredited, and proven false, then doubt would be thrown also upon the genuineness of his translation of the Book of Mormon; and thus all his pretensions as a translator would be exposed and come to naught.—B.H. Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church, 2:138


The Book of Abraham for Skeptics

It would be hard to find a worse book than the Book of Mormon; one that was as absurd, poorly written, and obviously fraudulent. But Joseph Smith may have achieved it with the Book of Abraham.