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1 The Pearl of Great Price, (Salt Lake City, UT: Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1981), 1:16-17, hereafter referred to as Abraham.
2 M. D. Rhodes, "A Translation and Commentary of the Joseph Smith Hypocephalus," BYU Studies, (Spring, 1977): 350-399;
Hugh Nibley, Abraham in Egypt (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 2000);
Hugh Nibley, "The Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham," Sunstone (December 1979): 49-51;
John Gee, "A History of the Joseph Smith Papyri and the Book of Abraham," transcript of a lecture presented on 3 March 1999 as part of the FARMS Book of Abraham Lecture Series;
M. D. Rhodes, "The Joseph Smith Hypocephalus...Seventeen Years Later," FARMS Publications, 1994;
Hugh Nibley, The Message of the Prophet Joseph Smith Papyri, An Egyptian Endowment (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1975).
3 Douglas F. Salmon "Parallelomania and the Study of Latter-day Scripture: Confirmation, Coincidence, or the Collective Subconscious?’7 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 33, no. 2 (Summer, 2000): 129-156
5 "Kaʿb al-Aḥbār" Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1978), 317.
6 E. Hennecke, New Testament Apocrypha, ed. Wilhelm Schneemelcher, trans. R. L. McWilson, 2 vols. (Cambridge: J. Clarke & Co., n.d.).
7 J. Pederson, "The Islamic Preacher: wāʿiz, mudhakkir, qāṣṣ" Ignace Goldhizer Memorial Volume, ed. S. Löwinger and J. Somogyi (Budapest: n.p., 1948), 226-251.
9 Qisas al-Anbiyā’ are: Al-Amili, Abd alȘāḥib al-Ḥasani, al-Anbiyāʿ: Ḥayātuhum, qiṣaṣuhum (Beirut: al-Alami, 1391/1971);
Ibn Bishr, Isḥāq, Mubtada’ al-Dunyā wa-Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā’ (Bodleian Library, Oxford: Huntington 388, fols. 106B-170B);
Ibn Kathīr, Ismāīl ibn TJmar, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā’ (Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Ḥadītha, 1968);
Ibn Khalaf al-Nīsāburī, Abu Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā (Teheran: Majmūai Mutūni, 1340/1961);
Al-Jazāʿirī, al-Sayyid Ni’mat Allāh, al-Nūr al-Mubīn Fī Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʿ wa l-Mursalīn, 2 vols. (Najaf, 1374);
Juwayrī, Muḥammad Qisas al-Anbiyā, ed. Ḥajj Sayyid Aḥmad Kitābchī (Teheran, n.d.);
Al-Kisa’i, Muhammad ibn ’Abd Allah, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʿ, trans. Thackston Wheeler, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Chicago: Great Books of the Islamic World, 1997);
Majlisî, Muhammad-Bâqir, Hayãt al-Qulub Dar Qisas waAhivalat-i Payghambarãn-i Tzam wa-Awsiya-i ishan, 3 vols. (Teheran: Chapkhana-i Islãmiyya, 1373);
Al-Najjār, ’Abd al-Wahāb, Qisas al-Anbiyāʾ (Beirut: Dar Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, n.d.);
Al-Rabghūzi, Naṣir al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā An Eastern Turkish Version (Leiden: Brill, 1995);
Al-Razī, Fakhr al-Dīn, ’smat al-Anbiya ’ (Cairo: Silsilat al-Thaqafa al-Islāmiyya, 1383/1964);
Al-Thaʿlabī, Ahmad ibn Muḥammad, ʿArā’ is al-Majālis: Qiṣaṣ alAnbiyā 1 (Beirut: Dār al-Rakhiyya al-Kutub al-ʿArabīyya, n.d.);
Al-Rāwandī, Sa’īd ibn Hibat Āllāh, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ (Beirut: n. p., 1968).
10 David Sidersky, Les Origines des Legendes Musulmanes dans le Coran et dans les vies des Prophètes (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1933).
11 Josephus F. "Antiquities of the Jews," The Complete Works of Josephus, trans. Whiston George (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1981), 8:2, 33.
12 chapters 9-12 of Sefer ha-yasher [The Book of Jasher] (Thousand Oaks, CA: Artisan Sales, 1988).
13 H. Polano, Selections from the Talmud (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876), i;
H. Freedman and M. Simon, Midrash Rabbah (London: Soncino Press, 1939).
14 Herbert Danby, The Mishnah (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), v-vi.
15 Louis Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1909).
16 Shari Lowin, " The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives" (Unpublished Ph.D dissertation, University of Chicago, October 2001).
17 A. H. Green, and L. Goldrup, "Joseph Smith, An American Muhammad? An Essay on the Perils of Historical Analogy," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 6:1971, 48-55.
18 Genesis 11:26-31.
19 Quran 26:69-76, trans. Arthur Arberry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983);
Al-Kisaʾi, Muḥammad ibn ʾAbd Allah, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ, ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, trans. Wheeler Thackston (Chicago: Great Books of the Islamic World, 1997), 140;
AlTabarī, Muhammad ibn Jarīr, Taʿrīkh al-Rusul iva l-Mulūk, vol. 2, trans. William Brinner (Albany: SUNY Press, 1987), 52;
Al-Tha’labi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad Arais al-Majalis: Qisas alAnbiyāʾ (Beirut: Dār al-Rakhiyya al-Kutub al-ʿArabīyya, n.d.), 65;
Al-Najjār, ʿAbd al-Wahab, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyaāʾ (Beirut: Dar Ihya’ al-Turath al-’Arabi, n.d.), 79.
20 Al-Rabghūzi, Nasir al-Dīn ibn Burhan al-Dīn, Qisas al-Anbiyāʾ: An Eastern Turkish Version (Leiden:Brill, 1995), 99.
21 Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʿīl ibn ’Umar, Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiya (Cairo: Dār al-Kutub alHaditha, 1968), 177.
22 Al-Rabghūzi, 94;
Ibn Kathīr, 171;
Al-Tha’labi, Arāʾis al-Majālis: Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ p. 65.
23 Abraham 1:16-17.
24 Al-Rabghūzi, 94;
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾis al-Majālis: Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ, 65;
Al-Tabarī, p. 54.
25 Quran 19:42-43
26 Al-Rabghūzi, 97, 99,
Al-Najjār, 79-80;
27 Abraham 3:1-17,
Facsimiles 2 and 3.
28 God," The Koran, trans. George Sale (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1836), 1:140n76.
29 Ibn Bishr, Folio 164B, trans. Brian Hauglid.
30 Al-Thaʿlabī, 65
Al-Ṭabarī, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr, Taʿrīkh al-Rusul waʾ alMulūk, vol. 2, trans. William Brinner (Albany: SUNY Press, 1987), 51:
Al-Kisaʾi, 138.
31 Al-Baidawi, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar, Anwār al-Tanzīl wa-Asrār al-Tāʿwīl, trans. Brian Hauglid (n.p., 1902), 2:35.
32 Al-Rabghūzi, 93.
Al-Ṭabarī, Abū Jafar Muḥammad ibn Jārīr, fimiʿ al-Bayān fī afsīr al-Quran, 30 vols.(Beirut: Dār ai-Maʾrifa li al-Tibāʾa wa al-Nashr, 1978), 7:160,
Al-Tarafī, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Al-Tarafi: Storie dei Profeti, (Genoa, Italy: il Nuovo Melangolo, n.d.), 72-75.
Abraham 3:2-14 and facsimile no. 2.
33 Al-Kisai, 147.
Quran 21:68;
Al-Ṭabarī, 58;
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾis al-Majālis, 67.
34 Al-Rabghūzi, 101.
35 Abraham 1:30.
36 Al-Rabghūzi, 97.
Al-Ṭabarī, 55;
Ibn Kathīr, 171;
Al-Najjār, 83.
37 Qurʿan 26:86.
38 Abraham, 29.
39 Hugh Nibley, Abraham in Egypt (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 2000), 227-231.
40 Bernard Chapira, "Légendes Bibliques Attribués à Kaʿb al-Abar," Revue des Études Juives 69 (1919), 101 as cited in Nibley, 227.
Cyrus Gordon, "Where is Abraham’s Ur," Biblical Archeology Review (June, 1977): 52.
Hugh Nibley, Abraham in Egypt, 234-247.
41 Al-Kisaʾi, 139.
42 Al-Thaʿlabī, 65.
Al-Rabghūzi, 94.
43 Al-Kisaʾi, 141.
44 Ibid.
Al-Ṭabarī, 4.
45 Al-Kisaʾi, 142.
Knappert, Jan, Islamic Legends: Histories of the Heros, Saints and Prophets of Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1985), 75-78,
46 Qurʾan 21:68;
Al-Rabghūzi, 101;
Al-Kisaʾi, 147;
Al-Tabarī, 58;
Ibn Kathīr, 181-182;
al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʿis al-Majālis, 67;
al-Najjār, 80.
47 ʿAbdullah Yusef ʿAli, The Meaning of the Glorious Quran (Beltsville, Maryland: Amana Publications, 1409/1986), 809;
Maulana Muḥammad ʿAli, The Holy Quran: Arabic Text, Translation and Commentary (Lahore: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at Islām, 1951).
48 Al-Ṭabarī, 59.
Al-Kisa’i, 147;
Al-Rabghūzi, 103;
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾis alMajālis, 67.
49 Abraham 1:15;
Facs. 1, no. 1.
50 Al-Kisaʾi, 147-148.
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾis al-Majalis, 67.
51 Abraham, 41,
Facs. 3, no. 1.
52 Al-Rabghūzi, 112.
53 Ibn Kathīr, 183;
Al-Tabarī, 60;
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾis al-Majālis, 68.
54 Al-Rabghūzi, 104.
55 Al-Ṭabarī, 61.
Ibn Kathīr, 183;
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿArāʾi’s al-Majālis, 68.
56 Al-Tha ʿlabī, ʿArāʾis al-Majālis, 68.
57 Al-Kisaʾi, 146.
Quran 21:57-58;
Al-Rabghūzi, 98;
Al-Ṭabarī, 56;
Ibn Kathīr, 179;
Al-Thaʿlabī, ʿAraʾ is al-Majālis, 66.
58 Abraham 1:20.
59 Al-Ṭabarī, 58;
Al-Rabghūzi, 106.
Ibn Kathīr, 182.
"Havnūn," Arāʾis al-Majālis, 67.
60 Al-Ṭabarī, 130.
61 Al-Masʿūdī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli ibn al-Ḥussayn, Murūj al-Dhahab wa Maadin alJawhar, trans. Aloys Sprenger, El Mas’udi’s Histroical Encyclopaedia, Entitled " Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems." (London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1841), 1:86.
62 Salmon, 130.
63 Abraham, 29.
64 ’Ali, Yusef, 1638.
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