BYU Egyptologist, missing-scroll advocate
John Gee
b. 1964
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The Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri
BYU Egyptologist, missing-scroll advocate
Gee argues from eyewitness descriptions and scroll geometry that a long roll of Hor once existed, later revising his estimate to roughly 314 centimetres, and that the surviving fragments are not the source. He reviewed the 2018 Joseph Smith Papers volume on the Book of Abraham under the title 'The Joseph Smith Papers Project Stumbles,' opening a public quarrel with the volume's own editors — one of the clearest cases of faithful scholars disagreeing with each other in print.
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The scroll-length argument
Andrew Cook and Christopher Smith argued in Dialogue that no more than about 56 centimetres of the interior of the Hor scroll can be missing, closely matching Baer's earlier estimate. Gee, who had estimated a much longer roll, revised his figure to about 314 centimetres. Faithful commentators concede they cannot independently adjudicate the mathematics.
The faithful side splits in public
John Gee reviewed the volume under the title 'The Joseph Smith Papers Project Stumbles'; Jeffrey Lindsay charged bias; the series editors Matthew Grow and Matthew Godfrey replied that they read the evidence differently from Gee, holding that translation occurred in Kirtland and again in Nauvoo. Lindsay quoted Hauglid's own statement that he now rejects a missing Abraham manuscript and no longer agrees with Gee or Muhlestein.
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"The Joseph Smith Papers Project Stumbles" (review of Revelations and Translations, Volume 4)
John Gee
That the fight over the Kirtland Egyptian Papers is now internal: a BYU Egyptologist publicly charging the Church's own documentary edition with substandard content and unacknowledged assumptions.
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