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The Book of Joseph is an untranslated text identified by Joseph Smith after analyzing Egyptian papyri that came into his possession in 1835. Joseph Smith taught that the text contains the writings of the ancient biblical patriarch Joseph. From the same papyri collection, Smith produced the first part of the Book of Abraham, but was killed before any known part of the Book of Joseph was translated.[1]
The scroll associated with the Book of Joseph has been found by Egyptologists to be a Book of the Dead, a common funerary document, and is unrelated to the biblical patriarch Joseph.[2]
- ^ Barney, Quinten (April 1, 2016). "The Joseph Smith Papyri and the Writings of Joseph of Egypt". Journal of Mormon History. 42 (2): 95–109. doi:10.5406/jmormhist.42.2.0095.
- ^ "Wilson, John A. The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri, Translations and Interpretations; Dialogue Journal 1968" (PDF).