Parley P. Pratt announces that Book of Abraham will soon be published; says it is older than the Bible.

Date
Jun 1842
Type
Periodical
Source
Parley P. Pratt
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Parley P. Pratt, "Notices," The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 3, no. 2 (June 1842): 32

Scribe/Publisher
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star
People
Joseph Smith, Jr., Parley P. Pratt
Audience
Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
Transcription

Also, that we expect, in next month's "Star," to give some extracts from the "Book of Abraham"—a relick of greater antiquity than the Bible, written on papyrus, and taken from the breast of an Egyptian mummy, now in the possession of, and translated by Joseph Smith.—ED.

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