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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 17:13:41 EST
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	The surviving papyri from the Egyptian collection contain the Book
of Breathings.  They don't match Joseph Smith's description of the papyri 
he said was the source of the book of Abraham, so it is plausible that those
papyri are lost, whether or not one believes in his gift of translation.
Joseph Smith never associated the language of the Book of Mormon--reformed
Egyptian--with these papers.
	ihnp4!uiucdcs!stout  (roughly)

The above statement is incorrect.  Three plates are reproduced along
with the Book of Abraham which Joe Smith gives the translation of.
These cuts or plates are almost exactly the same as those found in
the Book of Breathings. He, however, has another interpretation
having to do with Abraham being sacrificed upon an alter.

						Sincerly,
							Gary McNees