If only someone could read reformed egyptian

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Korihor
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If only someone could read reformed egyptian

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Maybe they would have known who this represents.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-phar ... 28664.html

Do you think the church would be interested in buying it?

Side note. Still no evidence of nephites or lamanites
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I think BYU professor Dr. Daniel C. Peterson might be fluent in Reformed Egyptian. However, he would need his dowsing rod to help locate any ancient statues and determine which Pharaoh the statue represents.
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moksha wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:34 pm I think BYU professor Dr. Daniel C. Peterson might be fluent in Reformed Egyptian. However, he would need his dowsing rod to help locate any ancient statues and determine which Pharaoh the statue represents.
We need to also remember that another serious Mormon scholar who was not an Egyptologist was High Nibley. No doubt Dr. Nibley was quite fluent in many languages and could recall an astonishing amount of secular and religious history. But his abiding interest in obscure parallels with Egypt preserved my interest in LDS beliefs for a lot longer than I wish it would have.
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moksha wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:34 pm I think BYU professor Dr. Daniel C. Peterson might be fluent in Reformed Egyptian. However, he would need his dowsing rod to help locate any ancient statues and determine which Pharaoh the statue represents.
Hahahaha, so glad someone else remembers that Dr. Peterson admitted he thinks dowsing for water worked (admitted on Mormon Stories and on his blog). I loves me some DCP, I mean, if you made this stuff up about what apologists say, people would think you were the crazy one.
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Zack Tacorin Dos wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:25 am
moksha wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:34 pm I think BYU professor Dr. Daniel C. Peterson might be fluent in Reformed Egyptian. However, he would need his dowsing rod to help locate any ancient statues and determine which Pharaoh the statue represents.
Hahahaha, so glad someone else remembers that Dr. Peterson admitted he thinks dowsing for water worked (admitted on Mormon Stories and on his blog). I loves me some DCP, I mean, if you made this stuff up about what apologists say, people would think you were the crazy one.
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If I could I would open my own bank, print my own non-money, make myself a general, oh heck I might just go all out and get myself crowned king of the world: with mad skillz like that why the heck not?
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