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Copied from the article about the parable, which formerly included this article: --euyyn 14:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
(Church response to this finding, sympathetically worded, really needs to be included to be npov.)
I don't think a church's reponse be needed in order to NPOV-include this. If what you tell is true, then it's just a fact that scholars translated it, and it corresponded to that egyptian book. It's matter saying, also, that the papyrus the scholars translated was the found one. I don't know if the LDS church continues claiming that the found papyrus was the lost one (specially after the good translation). If this is not confirmed, we can only assert that the church claimed to have found the original (actually, was the LDS who claimed that?).--Euyyn 08:40, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC) No, it was not the LDS Church. It was a non-Mormon teacher of Egyptian History,Culture, Arabic, etc., Dr. Aziz Atiya, who found the papyri in the 1980s. He had seen them as facsimile drawings in LDS publications, so that when he found the originals, he knew what they were. His biography is at: <http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=28ea8f892c29d110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD> --Pearson 20:36 22Aug2010
It's hard for me to understand this paragraph:
"... contents of the book..." - which book? Peral of Great Price? Because we have talked about the Book of Abraham 2 paras earlier and both The Book of Moses and The Book of Abraham in the previous paragraph. If it refers to the PoGP (I dunno), it would be worth writing 'contents of the Pearl of Great Price'
If it refers to the PoGP, it continues saying the original contents were slightly different, but some material from D&C + a poem is completely different from what we say it's its present content (i.e., five sections: Abraham, Moses, etc). If it refers to another book, then I'm completely lost.
"The PoGP was canonized in 1888." - I have no problems with this: it's only I would like to know more about the Mormon process of canonization (nowadays, back in 1888, ...). Have we got any material about that? If so, we should link to it. If not, we should create the article (or simply red-link to it).
"To other docs were added and moved away." - So... when was the current content added?? Was it there always, in addition with the D&C material and the poem? --euyyn 15:06, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Someone recently made this chnange to the paragraph above - I find it similarly confusing:
The book was first composed in Britain in 1851, where the American church newspapers in which these texts were first published had never been available to the faithful; missonaries there found the need to fill in this gap with a short collection that could be printed for an affordable price. The original contents of the book were slightly different, reproducing material found in the Doctrine and Covenants (which was also hard to come by in Britain at the time) and a poem entitled "Oh Say What is Truth?" ...
I am not sure exactly what this is trying to say. --Trödel 13:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
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I recently added a paragraph on the origin of the Pearl of Great Price. The paragraph was reverted. Before we get into a reversion war, I would like to know what the problem is with my paragraph. I'm happy to put it wherever deemed appropriate. But the origin should be noted, correct. Also, the fact that it was, according to scholars, mis-translated should also be noted, correct? I think these facts are important to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sigiheri (talk • contribs) 14:30, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
@Good Olfactory: I understand you took issue with my addition of the modifier "alleged" in the sentence pertaining to Smith's "translation". Outside of the Mormon church, there is no source I am aware of that says Smith actually translated anything. Therefore, the word "translation" is inaccurate. Would you prefer to substitute it with "rendition" or "version"? It's either that or it needs a) a modifier or b) an external non-Mormon source validating it is a "translation" of the hieroglyph on the papyrii. Trinacrialucente (talk) 08:20, 29 November 2015 (UTC)