Ryan Stuart Bingham argues that Joseph's racial views influence his interpretations in Facsimile 3 of the Book of Abraham.
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- Academic / Technical Report
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- Ryan Stuart Bingham LDS
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- Reference
Ryan Stuart Bingham, "Curses and Marks: Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith’s Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham," Journal of Mormon History 41, no. 3 (July 2015): 56–57
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- Journal of Mormon History
- People
- Ryan Stuart Bingham
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
In the 1842 publication of the Book of Abraham, Smith introduced in the book’s third facsimile (adapted from his papyri) a dark fi gure, designated “Olimlah; a slave belonging to the prince.” This 1842 depiction in the Book of Abraham of a slave as black is based on Smith’s particular understandings of blacks as slaves: Smith incorporated the Cain theory and the curse of Ham myth into his scriptural texts and supplied solutions to the problems that these myths faced.
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