How do Mormons explain the "Book of Abraham"?

[thephilosopher6]

Seems your comment in #12 that you understand the Book of Abraham issues well was a bit of a stretch.

A stretch? Your “arguments” (if they can hardly be called that) are easily refutable. But I don’t have time to debunk every single argument in 40 minute long videos. So I provided two links that cover most of the FAIR arguments and utterly destroys them. Here they are, with an additional article to supplement:

cesletter.com/debunking-fairmormon/book-of-abraham.html

cesletter.com/apologetics/the-book-of-abraham-except-for-those-willfully-blind-the-case-is-closed.html

cesletter.com/debunking-fairmormon/book-of-mormon.html

The majority, if not all, of the arguments made by FAIR, including the ones in the videos, are completely debunked in those three articles.

Would you like to bring forth at least one point made by FAIR that I’m sure is refuted in one of these three articles?

 

[Tarquin]

Links aren’t points. They can be useful, if not piled up in huge numbers, and if the links themselves aren’t hours long videos or hundreds of pages. Often a person will write a few sentences to offer as a point of discussion.

How to explain the Book of Abraham. As a whole, in its entirety is one way. Bit by bit is another. If the pieces don’t hold together, well, that’s a problem. If the whole is wholly incredible, that’s a problem.

Anyway, something I’ve wondered about - I mean, about how a Mormon would explain this, from the first chapter of the Book of Abraham.

21 Now this king of Egypt was a descendant from the loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth.
22 From this descent sprang all the Egyptians, and thus the blood of the Canaanites was preserved in the land.
23 The land of Egypt being first discovered by a woman, who was the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is forbidden;
24 When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterward settled her sons in it; and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land.
25 Now the first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it was after the manner of the government of Ham, which was patriarchal.

I do not believe “Egypt” signifies “forbidden” in Chaldean/Neo-Aramaic. I believe the word, or one of them, for “forbidden” is ܟܠܕܝܐ (kldy’). How do Mormons get “egypt” to mean “forbidden”?
Egyptians called their land Kem.t (“black land”) and Tamery (“beloved land”). I have read that it was the Greeks who named the land “Egypt”. One escape might be to say that Joseph put in the word Egypt “because that’s how everyone knew the land’s name.” But even if he put in the more familiar English word, the explanation for its name is faulty.