Book of Abraham

The "Book of Abraham" is a text that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, claimed to have translated from ancient Egyptian papyri. He stated that these papyri contained writings of the biblical patriarch Abraham. The book was first published in 1842 and is considered scripture by some denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement, though it is not accepted by all.

Critics and scholars have raised questions about the book's origins and authenticity, with many suggesting it was a product of Joseph Smith's own creation rather than a translation of ancient documents. The papyri from which Smith claimed to translate the Book of Abraham were later identified as funerary texts, not writings by Abraham.1