Egyptologist, University of Chicago
Klaus Baer
1930–1987
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The Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri
Egyptologist, University of Chicago
Baer, who had tutored Hugh Nibley in reading Egyptian, published the first extensive translation of the recovered text in Dialogue in autumn 1968 under the title 'The Breathing Permit of Hôr: A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham.' He travelled to Provo and examined the papyri personally, called his own study preliminary, and stated flatly that Joseph Smith thought this papyrus contained the Book of Abraham.
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Dialogue publishes the translations
Working from the Improvement Era photographs, Dialogue commissioned readings. In the summer issue John A. Wilson and Richard A. Parker identified fragments as a Book of Breathings copied for a Theban priest named Hor and as Books of the Dead; Grant Heward and Jerald Tanner published the identification of the Small Sensen text as the source of the margin characters. Baer's complete translation followed in the autumn issue.
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Klaus Baer
The first complete translation of the surviving Hor Book of Breathings, including the vignettes that bracketed it, and Baer's judgment that Smith took this papyrus to be the Book of Abraham.
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