Some of the most puzzling documents left in the wake of Joseph Smith's prophetic career pertain to the Book of Abraham—from the ancient papyrus to the nineteenth-century notebooks. For over a century these documents were specially housed away from public view. In 2018 The Joseph Smith Papers Project team at last made them eminently accessible in volume 4 of the "Revelations and Translations" series.
Robin Scott Jensen and Brian M. Hauglid co-edited the landmark volume, and in the process they learned more about the origins and uses of the cryptic Egyptian papers which Joseph Smith and his associates worked on in beginning in the mid-1830s. Jensen and Hauglid will discuss what they learned, shedding more light on Joseph Smith's processes of translation in this special guest lecture:
“A Window into Joseph Smith’s Translation: An Exploration of the Book of Abraham Manuscripts”