intelligences, 23, 61, 64

interpreters, 115

iron, 28

Isaac, 150, 176

attempted sacrifice of, 150

Isaiah, 89, 90, 126

Ishaq ibn Bishr, 139 n. 36

Ishmael, 143, 147

Isis, 100

Islam, 133, 135—37, 138, 139

Islamic isnad, 134—35

Islamic texts, 134, 137—38, 140, 143

Islamic tradition. See Muslim tradition

Islamic Translation Series, 131

Israel, 10, 42, 54, 168—69

house of, 83

Jackal, 130

Jackal mask, 127

Jacob, 179 n. 11

Jacobs, Henry, 136

Jacob's ladder, 170

Jason, 89, 89 n. 36

Jehovah, 76, 171, 174 n. 1

Jeremiah, 83

Jerusalem

Babylonian conquest of, 83, 86 n. 18

Onias of, 88, 90

priestly authorities in, 84 n. 7, 93

temple, 65, 89—91, 93

Jesus Christ, 61, 168, 172—74

Jewish Antiquities, 57—58, 65, 70

Jewish communities, 90

Jewish folklore, 71

Jewish religion, 93

Jewish sanctuary, 88, 93

Jewish substitute for Osiris, 121, 128

Jewish temple, 89, 90, 91

Jewish texts, 69, 71, 133—34, 141—42

Jewish tradition

of Abraham in cave, 139

of Abraham to rule as king, 46

of cedar, 42, 45

compared to Islamic interpretation of Jewish tradition, 133—34

of matrilineal decent, 154

Jews, 83, 84, 86, 87, 90

Jews of Alexandria, 89 n. 34

Jews of Egypt, 92, 93

Johnson, Benjamin F., 78

Joseph of Egypt, 93, 137, 179 n. 11

Joseph Smith Papyri, 97, 107—28. See also Book of Abraham: holographic original of

Josephus

and Abraham teaching Egyptians astronomy, 51, 65, 70—71

and Jerusalem temple, 90, 92

and religious tolerance, 88

and rulership, 46,

sons of, 89 n. 34

validity of, 91

Josiah, 84 n. 7

Jubilees, 57—58, 65, 70, 71, 72

Judah, 84 n. 7, 87

Judaism, 133

Judea, 90, 92

judgment, hall of, 117

judgment scene

in Book of Abraham, 61, 64, 71

not found in Bible, 71

in Testament of Abraham, 68, 71, 117, 129

Jupiter, 9, 11, 12

justification by faith, 185

Ka'ba, 143

Ka'b al-Ahbar, 145

Kabbalists, 10

Kae-e-vanrash, 23

kernels, 59

Keturah, 161, 162

Khelkias, 89 n. 34

Khufu, 53

king, 48, 49

King Follett Discourse, 78

Kingship, 45

kinsman-redeemer, 169, 171—72

Kirtland, 107

Kirtland Egyptian Papers, 124 n. 59, 127

Kisa'i, 138, 143—46

knife, 127

Kokaubeam, 11

Kokob, 11

Kolob

governing planets, 10

and nearest star to God, 5, 8—9, 53—54

reckoning of time of, 12

revealed in vision to Abraham, 18, 57, 60—61

Lamech, 40

last days, 64

Latin, 116

Latter-day Saints

and example of Abraham, 55, 183

faith of, 118

marriage covenant of, 148, 149, 163—66

and Muslim tradition, 137

and Sarah pretending to be Abraham's sister, 187

Lazarus, 119

Lebanon, 42, 43

Lebolo, Antonio, 107, 126

Lee, Harold B., 17

Leontopolis, 88, 90, 91 n. 48, 93

Letter of Aristeas, 83

Leucippus, 6, 9

Levites, 89 n. 38

Leviticus, 177

Lewis, Nathaniel, 176 n. 4

light, 10, 63, 64

linen, 117

lion, 122, 130

lion-couch, 114, 123

Lot, 47, 49, 176

lotus, 100

Louvre, 115

Luke, 119—20

Maccabees, 92

magic rites, 50

magical cures, 49

magician, 48, 120

manlike creatures, 24

marriage, 138, 147, 153, 163—66

Mars, 9, 11, 12

Marsh, Thomas B., 136

Mas'udi, 145—46

Maternus, Firmicus, 67

matriarchal rule, 147

McConkie, Bruce R., 29, 165

McIntire, William, 27

Mecca, 140, 143

Mediterranean basin, 6

Melville, Herman, 181

Memphis, 86

Menelaus, 89 nn. 34 and 36

Mercury, 9, 11, 12

Methodists, 178

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 108

Michael the archangel, 68, 117

microcosm of the universe, 123

Middle Bronze Age, 108, 123, 125, 127

Middle East, 42, 151

Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, 131

Milky Way, 19

Missouri, 176, 178

monotheism, 11, 141

moon

created by Lord, 65, 140—41

function of, 4, 11 n. 42

location of, 5—9, 12

and Olea, 11

outshone by birth star, 138

rotation of, 12, 61

Mormon, 126

Moroni, 18, 125—26

Moses

astronomy of, 1 n. 3

and Book of Genesis, 75, 77, 80

and Book of Moses, 13, 54

vision of, 17, 120

Mount Carmel, 47

Mount Sinai, 83

Muhammad

archrival of, 143

ascent into heaven of, 6

birth of, 138—39

feeding of, 140

Gabriel visits, 141

and Hadith, 133, 135, 137

persecution of, 141—42

and Qisas, 137

and revelation from God, 134, 136

Muslim astronomy, 6

Muslim scholars, 134, 136

Muslim texts, 69, 132—33, 138, 139

Muslim translations, 136

Muslim tradition

of Abraham as astronomer, 2

of Abraham in cave, 139

of feeding of Muhammad, 140

similar to traditions of other religions, 132—46

of star motif, 138—39

of "Who is my Lord?" 140

Muslims, 134, 137

mysticism, 133 n. 7

Napolean, 107

Nasafi, 137

Naufal, Waraqa b., 138

Nazarite, 91 n. 49

Nephi, 25, 172

Nephthys, 100

new and everlasting covenant, 149

New England, 177

New Kingdom, 53, 115

new name, 164, 170, 171, 173

New Testament, 5, 5 n. 13

New Year's drama, 50

New York, 178

Newton, Isaac, 7

Newtonian, 1

Nibley, Hugh

and date of Book of Breathings, 113 n. 22

and humility, 162

and Islamic sources, 131

the need for, 109, 112

and real king, 49

and Semitic Adaptation theory, 125

Nile, 38, 89

Nile delta, 83

Nimrod, 45, 138, 140, 142, 143

Nimrud, 158

Noah, 40, 46, 54, 137

Nuzi tablets, 158

offering, 46

Ohio, 178

Old Kingdom, 53

Old Slavonic, 113, 121

Old Testament, 5, 45, 169

Olea, 11

omnipotence, 23

omniscience, 23

Onias (including various individuals with this name)

in Alexandria, 89

as builder of temple, 88, 88 n. 32, 89, 90, 90 n. 44, 92

father of, 89 n. 34

flee to Egypt, 89 n. 34

House of, 91 n. 49

land of, 90

letter of, 92 n. 53

as mercenary leader, 89 n. 34, 91, 91 n. 50

murder of, 89 n. 36

Opet festival, 98

Oracle Siwa, 86

orbit, 51

ordinations and covenants, 149

Osiris

in Book of the Dead 125 vignettes, 98, 100

as Egyptian substitute for Abraham, 118, 121, 128, 129

emblem of, 44

in Facsimile 3, 54, 98, 101

in Pyramid Texts, 52

statue of, 115

Osoroeris, 96

ox (related to Sons of Horus), 122, 130

pagan texts, 69, 71

palace facade, 122

Palestine, 70, 121

palm trees, 42

papyri

of Abraham, 72

Aramaic, 84

Joseph Smith (see Joseph Smith Papyri)

of judgment, 117

to Onias, 91

Sensen, 108

parable of rich man, 119—20

Paradisco, 9

parallelomania, 58

Parente, Fausto, 89

Parousia, 117

Passover-Papyrus, 84 n. 7

patriarch, patriarchal history, patriarchal order. See priesthood

Paul, 154, 173, 179 n. 11

Pearl of Great Price, 57, 77, 131

Pentateuch, 87

perfume, 42

Peripatetic, 66

Persian Empire, 84

and Jews, 84—86, 92—93

Persian Great King Cambyses, 83—84, 88

Persian King, 85

Peter, 18, 154, 179 n. 11

Petosiris, 67

Petrie, W. M. Flinders, 98

Pharaoh

Alexander as, 86 n. 15

authority of, 48

and cedar, 44

fear of, 7

first, 46, 49

healing of, 51

and Jews, 86—87, 92—93

messenger of, 49

palace of, 43

priest of, 46

and royal predecessors, 54

Snefru, 43

and taking Sarah to wife, 39—40, 49

throne of, 52—54, 55, 62, 144

Zoan, 47

Pharethothes, 66

Phelps, William W., 24

Philistines, 179 n. 11

Phillip III Arrhidaios, 86 n. 15

Philo, 67—68, 70, 72

Philo of Alexandria, 88 n. 29

philosophy, 133 n. 7

Phoenicia, 43

physicians of Pharaoh, 48, 49

physics, 23

pilgrimage, 143

pillars, 123, 171

plagues, 39, 48, 50

planets

governing, 60, 68

and Kolob (see Kolob)

location of, 5—9

movement of, 15, 51, 52

purpose, 10

and record of fathers, 54

as stars, 11

plants, 24

Plato, 6, 119

plurality of Gods, 78

Popillius Laenas, 92

posterity. See Abraham, seed of

potassium, 26

Praeparatio Evangelica, 57—58, 66, 70, 72

Pratt, Parley P., 76—77, 80, 166

prayer, 46, 47, 49

pre-Adamites, 26

predestination, 63. See also foreordination

pre-earth council, 63, 71

premortal existence, 61, 64, 70, 183

Presbyterians, 178

pre-Socratic philosophers, 6

priestess, 158

priesthood

Egyptian, 52

fullness of, 163 n. 92

heir to, 146

keywords of, 8

and patriarch, 83, 147, 165

patriarchal, 45, 46, 47

and patriarchal history, 38

and patriarchal order, 46, 147

and temple, 65, 164

priests

of Baal, 47

Egyptian, 66

of facsimile, 127

high, 90, 92, 146

and House of Onias, 91 n. 49

Jewish, 89 n. 38

of Khnum, 85

primeval history, 38

primogeniture succession, 147

promised land, 38

proof-texting, 57

prophecy, 185

Protestants, 185

Proverbs, 115, 116 n. 29, 130

Psammetichus, 83 n. 4

Pseudo-Eupolemus, 2, 66, 70, 71

Psychostasy, 129

Ptah, 44, 52, 53

Ptolemaic geocentric astronomy, 5—6, 9

Ptolemaic kings, 86, 87

Ptolemaic period

and Book of the Dead, 98

and Joseph Smith Papyri, 123

and relationship between Jews and royal authority, 83, 92

and Semitic Adaptation theory, 125, 127

Ptolemies, 84, 86, 88, 92

Ptolemy

and Jews, 84, 86—93

and Onias, 91

Ptolemy I Soter, 86

Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 86 n. 18

Ptolemy IV, 89 n. 34

Ptolemy VI, 87, 88, 89, 92

Ptolemy VIII Philopator, 89 n 34, 92

Ptolemy IX Soter II, 89 n. 34

Puritans, 177—78

Purouel, 117, 118, 129

Pushkin Museum, 115

Pyramid Texts, 52, 53

Pythagoras, 6, 22

Quincy, Josiah, 78

Qur'an, 132—37, 139—40

Quraysh, 142

Ra, 90

rabbinic literature, 37

rabbinic sources, 42

rabbinic tradition, 39

Rabghuzi, 143—46

Rad, Gerhard von, 38

radioactive isotopes, 26

radiometric dating, 26

Recension A of the Testament of Abraham, 116—17

Recension B of the Testament of Abraham, 116, 117

record of fathers, 54, 61

redaction, 114—15, 115 n. 26

redemption, 168—69, 171—74

relativistic physics, 3

religion, 86 n. 16, 176, 180—84

resurrected being, 21

Reuven Firestone, 143

revelation, 46, 61, 134

revivals, 179

revolutions (astronomical), 8, 12, 68

Rhodes, Michael, 121—22

Roberts, B. H., 26, 109

Rocky Mountains, 136

Roman times, 90

Ross, Alexander, 136 n. 21

rotation of world near Kolob, 8, 21

royalty, 44

rulership, 46

Sabbath observance, 149

sacrament, 148

sacred spaces, 170

sacred tree, 44

sacrifice, 163. See also Abraham: attempted sacrifice; Isaac: attempted sacrifice

Sale, George, 136 n. 21

salvation, 159

Samaria, 85

Samuel, 179 n. 11

Samson, 179 n. 11

sanctification, 173

Sarah

and Abrahamic covenant, 152—55

as exemplar to women, 154, 156, 157, 166

and giving Hagar to Abraham, 143, 155

and Hagar in Abrahamic covenant with Abraham, 147—48, 158—60, 162—66

inheritance of, 155

name change of, 156

and pretending to be Abraham's sister, 41, 47—50, 153—54, 186

Sarai, 39—41, 45, 47

Sarapion, 88 n. 27

Satan, 63, 70, 135, 183. See also Azazel

satire, 44

satrap, 84, 85, 86

Saturn, 9, 11, 12

Saul, 179 n. 11

Savior, 61, 88, 183

scepter, 45, 100

school of intelligence, 79

science, 17

Scott, Thomas, 180, 184—85, 186, 187

sealing ordinance, 149

Second Day. See creation: second period of

second estate, 61

second law of thermodynamics, 21

Second Temple, 84 n. 7

seed, 64

Seleucid, 92, 93

Semitic adaptation theory, 125—28

Septuagint, 5 n. 13

sermons, 176

serpent, 82. See also snakes

Seti I, 5 n. 12, 53

Setna, 120, 128, 129

seven heavens, 9, 10

Seventh Day. See creation: Seventh Period

Seyffarth, Gustavous, 124 n. 59

Sharia, 133 n. 7

sheep, 39

Sheol, 44

Shinehah, 11

signs

between Abraham and Lord, 151

and Abrahamic covenant, 148, 149, 161

for earth, 12

to seventh heaven, 10

sin, 38, 42, 173

Sinai, 169

Sinuhe, 7

Si-Osiris, 121

Sixth Day. See creation: sixth period of

Sjodahl, Janne M., 113

Skinner, Andrew, 171

sky, 51

slave-mark, 162

Slavonic, 116

Smith, Emma, 163—64 n. 92

Smith, Joseph

and Abraham on Pharaoh's throne, 50, 53

and Adam-God theory, 80

and authenticity of Book of Abraham, 14, 45, 72—73, 107—30, 135—37, 174—87

and creation, 17, 76—79

and cosmology of his time, 7

and explanation of facsimiles, 115, 120 n. 43, 122—24

and Islam, 136

Papyri (see Joseph Smith Papyri)

writings of, 14

Smith, Joseph F., 134

Smith, Joseph Fielding, 26, 75

Smith, William, 26

snakes, 78

Snefru, 43

solar system, 22

Solomon, 43, 137

Son of Man, 54

son of Re, 48

Sons of Horus, 122, 130

soul, 118

Spain, 10

Spalding, Franklin S., 107, 109—11, 118, 122

Spalding pamphlet, 108—9, 124

spirit. See also breath of life.

of Adam, 78, 79, 81

of children of God, 51

composition of, 23

evil, 50

spiritual father, 174. See also redemption

spot fungi, 27

Sprenger, Aloys, 135

stars

and Abraham's posterity, 39

Abraham teaching of, 11, 51, 55

announcing births, 138

and cedars, 37, 52—53, 55

circumpolar, 53

and Egyptian kings, 53

function of, 4

and God's creations, 65

and God's spirit children, 51, 64

governing, 10, 64, 65, 70. See also governing principles

greatest, 52, 53

imperishable, 53

and Kokob, 11

location of, 5—9

and Osiris's soul, 52

and royal tombs, 53

and "This is my Lord," 140—41

and throne room, 52

vision of, 19, 50, 63, 68. See also Abraham: stars seen by

stone, 143 n. 51, 146

stone pillow, 171

Strabo, 89 n. 34

straw mat, 121

suffering, 174

sun

and celestial bodies, 11

creator of, 65

function of, 4, 10

God as light of, 53, 140—41

location of, 5—9

reckoning time of, 12

Sun-disk, 7

supercluster, 19

supernova, 21

sura, 141

sword, 100

Syria, 43, 44

Syrian War VI, 92

Tabari, 139 n. 36

Talmage, James E., 161

Tammuz, 44

Tanner, Jerald and Sandra, 98

Tayib, 144

Tell-el-Yahudieh, 88

temple

and astronomy, 51

Egyptian, 85, 86 n. 16

foundation of, 91

Jewish, 65, 85, 89, 91 n. 49

Latter-day Saint, 148, 149, 164—65

and magical cures, 49

Palestinian, 45

and priesthood, 65, 164

rebuilt, 85 n. 7

and righteous, 64, 165

temple recommend, 159 n. 62, 163

Terah, 62, 135, 140—41

Testament of Abraham

and Book of Abraham, 57—58, 68—70, 72 n. 56, 116

semitic context of, 118—19, 128, 129

Tha'labi, 144—46

Thebes, 115, 127

theocratic government, 48

theology, 133

theophany, 159

Third Day. See creation: third period of

Thompson, Stephen, 109, 122—23, 125, 128

thorium, 26

Thoth, 100—101, 118, 129

throne, 8, 50, 52, 54, 117

throne room, 52

Thutmosis III, 98

time, 13, 18

Times and Seasons, 77, 82, 107

tithing, 149, 150

Titus, 90

tokens, 148, 149, 151, 161

Torah, 87

Tower of Babel, 38

tradition, 58—60, 69

transmission of Book of Abraham, 114, 125, 127

tree goddesses, 98

tree of knowledge of good and evil, 82

tree of life, 44, 45

trumpet, 117

Tsedequiel, 118

Tullidge, Edward, 166

Turin Museum, 98, 115

Tutankhamen, 97

Twelve Tribes of Israel, 69, 117

Ugaritic, 113

ultimogeniture succession, 147

united order, 149

universe, 3—4, 12—13, 21, 3—7

Ur, 40, 45, 50, 182

uranium, 26

Uriel, 118

Urim and Thummim, 4, 50, 60

Venus, 9, 11

Vettius Valens, 57—58-, 66, 67, 70, 72

vignettes, 126, 128, 129

visible heavens, 4

Watson, Richard, 180, 186

Watt, W. Montgomery, 135

weddings, 149

weighing of heart, 99

Weil, Gustav, 135

Whiston, William, 180, 185

Whitman, Walt, 181

whole-offering, 91 n. 49

wicked, 64, 68

Widtsoe, John A., 113

Widtsoe, Osborne, 112

Wilcken, Ulrich, 91 n. 53

wilderness, 162

windows, 139

wizards, 49

womanhood, 166

wood, 44, 146

word of God, 81

Word of Wisdom, 149

world, 30, 64

Yehohanan, 85

YHW (Yaho), 84

Young, Brigham, 17, 76, 79—80

Zamakhshari, 137

ziggurat, 171

Zion, 176

Zoan, 41

Zohar, 45, 47