Episcopal bishop of Utah
Franklin S. Spalding
1865–1914
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The Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri
Episcopal bishop of Utah
In 1912 Spalding mailed the three facsimiles to eight Egyptologists and Assyriologists — Sayce, Petrie, Breasted, Mace, Peters, Mercer, Meyer and von Bissing — and published their replies as 'Joseph Smith, Jr., As a Translator.' He reported that 'in no case did one man know the opinion of another' and that agreement among them was practically complete. He is not to be confused with Solomon Spalding of the Book of Mormon authorship theory.
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Spalding's survey of eight Egyptologistshinge
Bishop Franklin S. Spalding published the replies of eight scholars to whom he had sent the facsimiles, reporting that 'in no case did one man know the opinion of another.' Sayce called the work an impudent fraud; Petrie wrote that 'there is not one single word that is true in these explanations.' Latter-day Saint replies in the Improvement Era attacked the survey's method rather than its Egyptology.
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Joseph Smith, Jr., As a Translator
Franklin S. Spalding
The first organized expert test of the facsimiles, and the exact wording of the judgments by Sayce, Petrie, Breasted, Mace, Peters, Mercer, Meyer and von Bissing.
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