Kerry Muhlestein

Works published in BYU Studies Quarterly:

• Joseph Smith and Egyptian Artifacts
• European Views of Egyptian Magic and Mystery
• Prophets, Pagans, and Papyri
• Understanding Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible
• Egyptianisms in the Book of Abraham
• The Idolatrous God Elkenah
• How Did Joseph Smith Translate the Book of Abraham?
• The “Kirtland Egyptian Papers” and the Book of Abraham
• The Relationship between the Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri
• The Priesthood Ban and the Book of Abraham
• Ur of the Chaldees
• Abraham and Idrimi
• Human Sacrifice
• Sobek, the God of Pharaoh
• The Blood of the Canaanites
• The Plain of Olishem
• Potiphar’s Hill
• Zeptah and Egyptes
• Introduction (61:4)
• What Egyptian Papyri Did Joseph Smith Possess?
• The Name of the Lord
• Abraham’s Converts in Haran
• The Plains of Moreh
• The Abrahamic Covenant
• Did Abraham Lie about His Wife, Sarai?
• Abraham the Seer
• Abrahamic Astronomy
• Shinehah, the Sun
• Kolob, the Governing One
• The Divine Council
• The Son of Man
• The Fall of Lucifer
• Creation from Chaos
• The Foreordination of Abraham
• Ancient Near Eastern Creation Myths
• Jews in Ancient Egypt
• Abrahamic Legends and Lore
• The Ancient Egyptian View of Abraham
• The Ancient Owners of the Joseph Smith Papyri
• Approaching the Facsimiles
• A Semitic View of the Facsimiles
• The Four Sons of Horus (Facsimile 2, Figure 6)
• Facsimile 3: Judgment Scene or Presentation Scene?
• Conclusion
• By His Own Hand upon Papyrus
• Chiasmus in the Book of Abraham
• Appendix
• Facsimile 1 as a Sacrifice Scene
• The Idolatrous Priest (Facsimile 1, Figure 3)
• The Purpose and Function of the Egyptian Hypocephalus
• One Day to a Cubit (Facsimile 2, Figure 1)
• The Hathor Cow (Facsimile 2, Figure 5)
• God Sitting upon His Throne (Facsimile 2, Figure 7)
• Abraham and Osiris (Facsimile 3, Figure 1)
• Isis the Pharaoh (Facsimile 3, Figure 2)
• Shulem, One of the King’s Principal Waiters (Facsimile 3, Figure 5)