Don you know that the mummy on the lion couch in Facs. 1 is identified as Osiris, not Abraham?
Critics charge that the figure on the lion couch in Facs. 1 cannot be Abraham, as Joseph Smith’s translation indicates, because it has been identified as Osiris. But recent research has shown some blending of identities concerning Osiris, as McGregor and Shirts explain [1999, p. 205]: Both John Wilson and Klaus Baer, Egyptologists who worked on the papyri, noted that one of the figures in the papyri, a little female, was considered Osiris, even though she could not be, literally speaking. The one source critics usually ignore in their research is the most interesting in this respect. Roy B. Ward has noted something especially phenomenal…. Ward notes that in Luke 16:19-31, where Lazarus is taken to the bosom of Abraham, “The story is probably, as Gressman proposed, dependent on an Egyptian tale, whose closest descendant is the Demotic tale of Salme. The role of Osiris is in he Egyptian tradition has been replaced in the Lukan story by Abraham.” [Roy B. Ward, 1976, p. 177] Think about
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- Don you know that the mummy on the lion couch in Facs. 1 is identified as Osiris, not Abraham?
