Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:

Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
9/24/2021
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
80 pages Saddle-stitched
Category:
Religion
Tags:
apologetics, book of abraham, church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, dan vogel, lds, Mormonism, review

Review of Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021). 250 pp. $18.95 (softback).

Abstract: The latest polemical publication of substance about the Book of Abraham, Dan Vogel’s Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique, criticizes the work of those who argue for the antiquity and inspiration of the Book of Abraham and makes a sustained argument that the book is, instead, modern pseudepigrapha written by a pious fraud (Joseph Smith) in the nineteenth century. Book of Abraham Apologetics lays out a particular naturalistic approach to this text that works best only when certain metaphysical and methodological assumptions are taken for granted. This approach, however, as well as most of his arguments against the Book of Abraham’s historicity, are severely undermined both by Vogel’s inability to properly assess the evidence and his metaphysical or ideological commitments.

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