What independent proof do Mormons have that there was ever such a language as Reformed Egyptian?

Answer 1

If you need proof, you can cosult the impression of the etchings that were taken from the plates. They were presented to a professor, the leading scholar on ancient languages at that time. He certified that they were indeed correct etchings and that the translations were correct. When he asked how they came across the etchings, and he found out that the location of the plates was shown to Joseph Smith by an angel, he did not believe them, just as many people do not, and he tore the certificate up. Luckily the paper with the impressions remains, and has been verified again by academic scholars.

You may also be interested to know that "And it came to pass" is one of the most frequent phrases to begin each verse in the Book of Mormon. Many years after the Book of Mormon was published, non-Mormon scholars identified a symbol in ancient American language that had that exact translation. This doesn't prove the Book is true, but it answers your question.

Answer 2

Dear Philosop:
. I'm not sure any such thing exists. After Joseph Smith showed some plates to several witnesses, they disappeared so they could not be analyzed.
. However, there is one surviving manuscript that he bought along with a mummy from a man operating a traveling side show. Smith called it "the Book of Abraham", and deposited it with the N.Y. Metropolitan Museum.
. Smith's English translation of that book flourished for many years, and the Egyptian manuscript was labeled "The Book of Abraham."
. One day an Egyptologist asked to read the scroll, and it turned out to only be a merchants record of business dealings. This forgery was returned to Utah with great fanfare, but the head of the Antiquities Department had it translated, was outraged at the forgery, blew the whistle, and defected from the Mormon Church.

. So, the only Reformed Egyptian existed in the mind of Joseph Smith.

. But do not throw religion away because of charlatans. Truth can be found in the Bible, and the last-day Bible code is a challenging truth. It is published on the Internet.

Answer 3

There somewhat is evidence; many adjustments of Egyptian have been got here across. of course no person has pronounced "that's the very one", yet assuming that there are no variations of a very primary writing style used interior the trades of the time is purely nuts. It derived partly from Cuneiform and many historic procedures of writing derived from Egyptian. could no longer any hieroglyphic writing style be referred to as an version of Egyptian. If I have been to declare that the Mayan hieroglyphics stemmed from Lehi's awareness of Egyptian i do no longer understand that it would be a brilliant argument, however the perception may be especially no longer ordinary to coach impossible. So there are various variations, purely none that got here with a tag on them indicating that it is the reformed Egyptian spoken of by making use of Joseph Smith. Demotic Egyptian sounds like a good candidate for a detailed version of what reformed Egyptian might have been.

Answer 4

I was a Mormon and I don't know what you are talking about. If you are talking about something Joseph Smith translated, you'd have to take that up with him and God, and I don't see that happnin. But, one of the scriptures in the Quad (Pearl Of Great Price) was brought to JS by an academic source who recovered it from some Middle Eastern locale.

Answer 5

I presume that this is the language in which the "plates" were supposedly written. But we have no word other than Joseph Smith's that the language existed, or that his purported "translation" of it has any basis in reality. Considering the turgid drivel that Smith came up with (not to mention the factual errors in it), one should approach the subject with more than a bit of skepticism.

Answer 6

What independent proof do any religions have about any of there so called 'truths"

Answer 7

their book says so.