Abdulfeda, 144

Abel, 69, 117—18, 129

Abraham

attempted sacrifice of

deliverance from, 145, 168

found in Muslim tradition, 143, 146

location of, 115, 124

not found in Genesis Apocryphon, 45—46

reason for, 46

birth of, 138, 139

bosom of, 129

death of, 68, 117—18

dreams of, 43

in Egypt, 42, 50

and Egyptian texts and iconography, 128

faith of. (See faith)

feeding of, 139

and knowledge of stars, 65—67, 68—71

laying on of hands by, 49

name change of, 67

in nineteenth-century America, 177—86

obedience of, 38, 47, 121, 150, 173—74, 183—84

original historic context of, 16

persecution of, 141—42

personal history of, 39, 121, 127

and promised land, 38

the prophet, 37

revelations of, 38, 57, 70

righteousness of, 38—39, 42, 47, 150

seed of

blessing upon, 39, 145, 178

chastening of, 174

compared to cedar, 42

number of, 39, 64

promised by Lord, 174

responsibility of, 47, 145

and of Sarah, 155

stars seen by, 11, 53—54, 60, 63, 65, 68, 121

trial of faith of, 38—39, 42, 47, 173—74, 183

visions of

in ancient texts, 57—58-

in Anthologiae, 66, 67, 70, 72

in Antiquities of the Jews, 65, 70

in Apocalypse of Abraham, 62—64, 70, 121—22

in Book of Abraham, 3, 4, 51, 57, 60—62, 64, 69, 70, 72

in De Cherubim, 67—68, 70, 72

in Genesis Rabbah, 69, 70, 72

in Jubilees, 65, 70, 71, 72

in Praeparatio Evangelica, 66, 70, 72

in Testament of Abraham, 68—69, 70, 72, 116—18

wives of, 143, 147—48, 163

Abrahamic astronomy

and archaic cosmology theories, 9

and geocentric astronomy, 5—8

in Pharaoh's court

and Abraham seen as wise man, 51, 65

and Abraham teaching through interpreters, 115

absent from Genesis, 62

and geocentric astronomy, 3, 22

and preparatory lesson on stars, 50

in writings of Eusebius, 2, 66

Joseph Smith's opinion of, 2

and methodological considerations, 14—16

purpose of, 3, 22

taught in Phoenicia, 2

three major interpretations of, 1—2

Abrahamic covenant

and Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar, 147—66

and Apocalypse of Abraham, 64

and Bereshit Rabbah, 38—39

and Bible, 38—39, 145, 184

and Book of Abraham, 47, 145, 184—85

and Book of Mormon, 184

and covenants made in Israelite society, 168—74

and Muslim tradition, 145

and Protestant tradition, 185

Abram

account of, 40

definition of, 152

and difference between astronomer and wise man, 67

and journey to Egypt, 39, 47

Abramos, 67

Abu Jahl, 143

abyss and Joseph Smith hypocephalus, 121, 130

Adam

and creation account, 81—82

creation of, 78—82

Islamic texts' record of, 137

patriarchal reign of, 54

priesthood authority of, 46, 69, 81

son of, 118

temptation of, 63

Adam-God theory, 79, 80

Adonis, 44

adoption and Abrahamic covenant, 170—73

agency, 24

Aggadic, 133

Akhenaton, 151

Akkadian, 113, 148

al-Baidawi, 137, 138 n. 31

al-Bukhari, 137

Alcimus, 89 n. 34

Alcoran, 136

Alcyone in the Pleiades, 20

Alexander IV, 86 n. 15

Alexander the Great, 85

Alexandria, 89, 90, 93

Alexandrian Jews, 90

Alfonso the Wise, 5

al-Kisa'i, 137

Allah, 143

allegory, 75—82, 118, 119

al-Maqdisi, 139

al-Mas'udi, 137

al-Muslim, 137

al-Qurtubi, 137

al-Rabghuzi, 137, 139 n. 36

al-Tabari, 136, 137, 138 n. 31

altars, 50, 163

al-Tha'labi, 137, 140

Amenemope, 115, 116, 130

Amenhotep II, 98

Amenhotep IV, 151

America, 136, 175

American Christian Midrash, 176

Amina, 138

Ammut, 100—101

Amnte, 120—21, 129

Amun, 7

anachronisms and Book of Abraham text, 124, 126—28

Ananias, 89 n. 34

ancestors, 54

ancient geocentric cosmology, 5

ancient Near East

and Abraham on Pharaoh's throne, 50

and cedar of Lebanon, 42, 44

covenant adoption in, 170—71

new names in, 170

and sacred spaces, 170

and slavery, 169

ancient texts, 57

Anderson, David, 164

angel

escort of Abraham, 62—63

of the Lord, 119

in Semitic context of judgment scene, 129

angels

and the Crystalline Heaven, 9

driving souls to judgment, 117

of Egyptian gods, 118

stone carved by, 143 n. 51

anointing, 164 n. 92

antediluvian patriarchs, 46

Antiochus IV, 89, 92, 93

Antiochus V Eupator, 92

Anubis

Egyptologist interpretation of Facsimile 1, 100, 118, 129

Semitic Adaptation Theory of Facsimile 1, 101, 118, 127, 129

Apocalypse of Abraham

appearance of, 73 n. 56

and celestial hierarchy, 9

language of, 113

and monotheism, 11, 70 n. 49

parallels to ancient text, 116, 121—22, 128, 130

parallels to Book of Abraham, 10, 62—64

Apocalypse of Paul, 10

Apocrypha, 57, 131, 134

Apocryphal tradition, 133, 135, 146

apostasy, 76

Arabian and Jewish legends, 186

Arabic, 116

Aramaic, 84

archangel. See Gabriel

archeologists, 73

archeology, 24

argument for silence, 79

Aristotle, 6

arithmetic, 51, 185

Artapanus, 66, 70, 71

ascension, 171

Assyria, 44

asteroid, 28

astrology, 10, 51, 66, 69—70

astronomers, 51, 67, 71

astronomy. See also Abrahamic astronomy and geocentric astronomy

and astronomical bodies, 4

and causality, 14

Chaldean addiction to, 68

Copernican theory, 1, 3, 7, 13

cycles, 3

earliest accounts of, 67

Einsteinian, 1, 13

of Enoch, Abraham, and Moses, 1 n. 3

epicycles, 3

found in Muslim tradition, 146

Keplerian theory of, 3, 7, 13

methodological issues of, 14

negative characteristics of, 71

parallels, 14—15

scriptural accounts of, 17

texts, 14

tradition of, 71

Atlantic Ocean, 136

atonement. See redemption

Atum-Re, 115

autographic assumption, 111, 113, 124—25

autographic documents, 113

ax and Abraham, 142

Azar. See Terah

Azazel, 63

baboon and Egyptian hypocephalus, 130

Babylon, 11, 38, 44, 84 n. 7

Bagavahya, 84

balance of judgment and Testament of Abraham, 117, 118

baptism, 149

Baptists, 178

Bastet, 90

Berossus, 65, 67

Bethel, 170, 182

Bible, 25, 73, 109, 126, 133

biology, 28

black hole, 20

blessings

and Abrahamic covenant, 148, 149

of Abrahamic covenant to Abraham, 151, 165. See also Abrahamic covenant

of Abrahamic covenant to Hagar, 158, 159—61, 165

of Abrahamic covenant to LDS couples married in temple, 163—65

of Abrahamic covenant to Sarah, 154, 156—57, 165

spiritual, 168

Blunt, Henry, 179, 186

bondage. See redemption

bonds of sin, 172

bondwoman, 161

Book of Abraham

and Abraham's visions, 3, 4, 51, 57, 60—62, 64, 69, 70, 72

and ancient world, 15—17, 131

and astronomy, 1—16, 50

and covenants made, 38—39, 47, 51, 64

and creation, 61, 65, 80—82

and early years in Chaldea in, 60

facsimiles of. (see facsimiles)

and foreordination, 64

and God's instruction before entering Egypt, 45, 51

holographic original of, 108, 123

and journey to Egypt, 38, 45, 47, 50—51

and knowledge of heavens, 12, 51, 53, 61, 65. See also Abrahamic astronomy

and Kolob, 8, 53—54

Muslim tradition in, 137, 143—44

and nineteenth century, 15—17

and other texts, 72—73, 128, 144—46, 185—87.

papyrus of, 40, 126. See also Joseph Smith Papyri

and priesthood, 52

and Sarah pretending to be Abraham's sister, 187

symbolism of cedars and stars in, 37

translation of, 80, 107—28, 125 n. 61

and Ur, 46

and Urim and Thummim, 50

validity of, 14, 45, 72—73, 107—30, 135—37, 174—87

Book of Abraham papyri, 2, 113, 115, 124—28

Book of Breathings

and another text on roll, 124 n. 61

and Book of Abraham, 108

contained in first part of roll, 96

date of, 113 n. 22

vignettes from, 99, 115, 124, 128

Book of the Dead, 97—101, 129

Demotic, 101

vignettes of 125, 97—98, 99—101

vignettes of 30B, 98, 99

Book of Genesis

and Abraham, 37 n. 1, 39, 62, 69

creation of man in, 75—82

and divine mercy, 38

and lost text, 40

Book of Jubilees, 57—58, 65, 70, 71, 72 n. 56

Book of Life, 118

Book of Mormon

and Abraham, 150

and Book of Abraham, 125—26

and Frank S. Spalding, 109, 110

and Islamic texts, 131

and relationship between covenants and spiritual bondage, 172—73

Book of Moses, 54, 81

Breasted, James H., 98

breath of life, 76, 79, 81

brother of Jared, 173

Budge, E. A. Wallis, 72, 115, 120 n. 43

Bumppo, Natty, 181

burial chamber, 53

burls, 27

butter, and legends of Abraham, 139

Byzantines, 6

Cain, 118

Cairo, 88

Callimachus, 66

Calvin, John, 177

Cambyses, 84

camp meetings, 179

Canaan, 60, 83, 90, 176

Canaanite dialect, 113

carbon, 26

Castile, 5

catapult, 142

cave, 139

cedar

Abraham compared to, 40—41

exploitation of, 42—43

forests, 42

of Lebanon, 42, 43, 55

Pharaoh compared to, 44

righteous compared to, 42

and stars, 37, 52—53

throne, 45

celestial

bodies, 5, 7, 10, 61

hierarchy, 5

rose, 12

sphere, 9

chains of hell, 172

Chaldea, 60, 70, 143

Chaldeans, 66, 68, 71

Chandler, Michael, 179

chariot, 117

cherubim, 82

Chibois, 96

children of Israel, 83

Christ, 81, 138

Christian

commentators, 180—84

gnostics, 6

texts, 69, 71, 133—34

texts of America, 176

traditions, 137, 138

circumcision, 152

city of destruction, 90 n. 43

city of sun, 90 n. 43

Clark, Douglas, 163

Clarke, Adam, 180, 182, 184, 186, 187

Clark's commentary, 176 n. 4

Claudius, 120

clay tablets, 113

Clayton, William, 27, 78

Cleopatra, 88 n. 27, 89, 89 n. 34, 91

clusters, 20

Coele-Syria, 91, 92

coffins, 42

colonists, 177—78

commandments, 46

concentric spheres, 5

Congregationalists, 178

conquest of Jerusalem, 87

conservatives, 178

contracts, 148

Cooper, James Fenimore, 181

Coptic, 116

cosmic tree, 43

cosmology

Abrahamic, 14—15

ancient, 2

Latter-day Saint, 2

nineteenth-century, 15—16

twentieth-century, 2

cosmos, 48, 53

council in heaven, 61

covenant, 147—66, 168—74. See also Abrahamic covenant

creation

Abraham's knowledge of, 3, 186

and Adam, 75—82

allegoric account, 77, 80—81, 82

fifth period of, 34

first period of, 30—31, 61, 62, 81

fourth period of, 33

and God's creations, 8, 17, 60, 71

second period of, 31—32, 81

sequence of events, 29

sixth period of, 34

spiritual, 64, 69

spiritual vs. physical, 29

third period of, 32—33

Creator, 65, 68

crocodile, 123

Crystalline Heaven, 9

cuneiform, 113

dais, 45

Dante, 6, 9, 12

Darius II, 84

date-palm, 40

David, 179 n. 11

De Cherubim, 57—58, 67—68, 70, 72

Dead Sea Scrolls, 40

Democtritus, 9

Demotic, 97, 120, 128, 129

denominations, 178

Deuteronomy, 177

Dilmun, 44

Diodorus of Sicily, 51

divination, 10

Djed, 44, 52

djed column, 44

Dokiel, 117, 118, 129

Dositheos, 91

dove, 8 n. 29

dreams, 40, 41, 42, 49

dust of the earth, 76

eagle, 122, 130

earth

axis of, 53

creation of. See creation

description of heavens from, 4, 7

elements of, 63

light to, 4

location of, 5, 10

Lord over, 130

nations of, 47

revolutions around, 12

Eastern Christian Text series, 131

Edfu, 86 n. 16

Egypt

Abraham into, 3, 37—40, 47, 60, 70—71, 115

ancient, 114

border of, 55

famine in, 66

five cities in, 89

history of, 126

Jewish population in, 86, 90, 92

Jewish temple in, 88, 91

kings of, 92—93

language of, 115, 127

liberation of, 86

magicians of, 120

mysteries of, 115

natural resources of, 43

Onias to, 89 n. 34

opportunities of, 93

Pharaoh's throne in, 50, 51

rulers of, 84

separating covenant people from, 83

Egyptian

altar of death, 50

astronomy, 11 n. 42, 54

court, 51

emissaries, 47

gods, 118

ideology, 48

Jewry, 93

papyri, 77, 127

priests, 2, 66, 114

provinces, 49

religious traditions, 52, 87, 90, 115

rulers, 93

story, 120

temples, 84, 86 n. 16

texts

and context of facsimiles, 124, 126

language of Book of Abraham papyri, 113—15

and psychostasy papyrus, 117

relating to Abraham, 128

Egyptians

being taught astronomy, 58, 65

and distrust of Persians, 84

equal with Persians, 92

and king, 86

in politics, 85

sent by Pharaoh to cut down tree, 43

Egyptology, 112, 114, 118—19, 126

Egyptomania, 107

Eighteenth Dynasty, 98, 99

Elephantine Island, 84

Jewish temple on, 93

elephants, 89 n. 34

Elijah, 47

Elisha, 179 n. 11

Enlightenment, 177

Enoch

astronomy of, 1 n. 3, 66

in Book of Moses, 54

interpreted semitically as Thoth, 119, 129

in Islamic texts, 137

as scribe of Book of Life, 118

in Testament of Abraham, 69

vision of creation shown to, 17

1 Enoch, 41

epilepsy, 135

Epiphanes, 90

Erman, Adolf, 115

Ethiopians, 83 n. 4, 121

Ethiopic, 46

Euphrates River, 151

Eupolemus, 51

Europe, 72, 135

Eusebius, 2, 66, 72, 88 n. 32

Eutychus, 146

Eve, 63, 75—76, 81—82

evolution, 24

exile, 84

Exodus, 83

extrasolar planets, 20

Ezekiel, 43, 44

Facsimile 1, 99

Facsimile 2, 11 n. 42

Facsimile 3

date of, 96—97

in Egyptian literature, 97—98

neglect of, 95

not part of Book of Breathings, 99—101

facsimiles

and autographic assumptions, 111—14

and Egyptian vignettes, 108, 114 n. 26, 118

and Steven Thompson, 122—27

faith, 73, 150, 173—74

falcon, 49, 130

family, 47, 149, 153, 165, 166

famine

in Chaldea, 66, 143, 176

and Egypt, 115

in Hebron, 39, 40

father, 47

feast, 142

fertility religions, 80

Fifth Day. See creation: fifth period of

fifth firmament, 63

fire, 117, 118, 142

firmament, 11, 54, 122

First Day. See creation: first period of

first estate, 61

First Presidency, 82

fixed stars, 9

Floeese, 23

flour, 139

FlŸgel, Gustav, 136 n. 21

foreordination, 63—64, 70, 71

fossil bones, 27

fossils, 24

Fourth Day. See creation: fourth period of

Fourth Dynasty, 43

Gabriel, 133, 139, 141, 143 n. 51

Garden of Eden, 63

Geb, 7

Gee, John, 125

Geiger, Abraham, 142

Genesis Apocryphon

and Abraham healing Pharaoh, 49—50

and autobiographical accounts, 40

and Book of Abraham, 37 n. 1, 45

and Pharaoh and Sarah, 47

Genesis Rabbah, 57—58, 69, 70, 72

geocentric astronomy, 1, 15

and Abrahamic cosmology, 7—8, 14—16

and governing of lower regions, 10

and revolutions around earth, 11

taught to Abraham by Lord, 3, 22

taught to Egyptians by Abraham, 22

worldview, 5—7

geology, 24

Gilgamesh, 44

globes, 28

God

of Abraham, p. 53

communication of, 4

creators with, 81

nature of, 183

paradise of, 182

residence of, 9

a son of, 117

throne of, 8

Godhead, 183

gods, 46

gold, 117

gold plates, 125

Goliath, 179 n. 11

gospel, 47, 54

governing principles, 68

grain, 40

graven image, 80

gravitation, 7, 20

Great Pyramid, 53

Greco-Roman period, 97, 108, 128

Greek

and allegories, 77

business documents, 120—21

manuscripts with recensions, 116

and Ptolemies, 84

-speaking foreigners, 86—87

translation of ancient texts, 70

translation of Book of Abraham, 118

translation of Testament of Abraham, 116

Gressmann, Hugo, 120

Hagar

and Abrahamic covenant, 147—48, 157—63, 165

an example to women, 166

taken to wife, 176

Hai, 182

Hair-offering, 91 n. 49

Hajj, 143

half-life, 26

Halima, 140

Hammurabi Law, 158, 162

handmaid, 158, 160, 161

happiness, 185

Haran, 40, 60, 145, 150

Hathor, 100

Hatshepsut, 7

heathen, 46, 64

heaven

first gate of, 68

highest, 8, 10

Lord over, 130

single and multiple undifferentiated, 5

heavenly bodies, 10, 52, 54. See also celestial bodies

Hebrew

and Adam's creation, 78

symbolism in names, 170

translation of Apocalypse of Abraham, 121—22

translation of Bible, 116, 131

translations of Book of Abraham papyri, 113, 114, 118

translation of Qumran scroll, 90 n. 43

translation of Testament of Abraham, 116 n. 33

translation of word covenant, 148

Hebron, 40

heliocentric astronomy, 1, 7, 16

Heliopolis, 90

Heliopolite nome, 91 n. 52

helium, 23

Hellenism, 72

Hellenization, 92

Henry, Matthew, 180, 185

Hermippus of Smyrna, 66, 67

Heward, Grant, 98

Hieratic Egyptian, 127

hierodule, 158

hierophany, 170

high priest, 88, 90, 92, 93

hippodrome, 89 n. 34

Holy Ghost, 8 n. 29, 80

Holy One, 42

Homans (Webb), 112

honey, 139

Hor, 96

Horus

in Egyptian context, 100—101, 118—19, 129

Pharaoh protected by, 49

in Semitic context, 121

sons of, 122

Hoskisson, Paul, 124

hydrogen atoms, 23

hyphocephalus, 63, 115, 121—22, 128, 130

Iaoel, 121

Ibn Athir, 137

Ibn Kathir, 137

Ibn Hisham, 138 n. 27

Ibn Ishaq, 137, 138, 139 n. 36, 143, 146

iconography, 128

idolatry, 80, 121, 141—42, 146

Illinois, 178

incantations, 50

Indiana, 178

ink, 117, 127