Isn Facs. 3 just a well-known funerary scene, obviously part of the Book of the Dead and not the Book of Abraham?
Critics have argued that Facsimile 3 has nothing to do with Abraham, but is a well known vignette depicting a common scene from the Book of the Dead 125. Facsimile 3 was attached to the end of Book of the Dead 125, and was followed by another book from which only a couple of opening words remain, ending before the title was given. But was this figure known to be part of the Book of the Dead 125? John Gee addresses this and related issues in his chapter, “Facsimile 3 and Book of the Dead 125,” Chapter 7 in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2006), pp. 95-105, available online for FARMS subscribers. Here is a useful excerpt, which begins by noting how judgment scenes originally associated with another book, Book of the Dead 30B, became associated with Book of the Dead 125: Taken as a whole, only a minority of Eighteenth Dynasty vignettes associate the judgment scene with Book of the Dead 125, and almost as many asso
Critics have argued that Facsimile 3 has nothing to do with Abraham, but is a well known vignette depicting a common scene from the Book of the Dead 125. Facsimile 3 was attached to the end of Book of the Dead 125, and was followed by another book from which only a couple of opening words remain, ending before the title was given. But was this figure known to be part of the Book of the Dead 125? John Gee addresses this and related issues in his chapter, “Facsimile 3 and Book of the Dead 125,” Chapter 7 in Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, ed. John Gee and Brian M. Hauglid (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2006), pp. 95-105, available online for FARMS subscribers. Here is a useful excerpt, which begins by noting how judgment scenes originally associated with another book, Book of the Dead 30B, became associated with Book of the Dead 125: Taken as a whole, only a minority of Eighteenth Dynasty vignettes associate the judgment scene with Book of the Dead 125, and almost as many asso
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