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Codex Amiatinus is one of the three great single-volume Bibles. It was given as a gift to the Pope in 716 AD => see pg. 201
TOP: Sir William Flinders Petrie discovered it in 1904–1905. In the temple ruins at Serabit el-Khadim, located in the Southwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
BOTTOM: Statue from Hathor temple of Serabit el-Khadim,
"They were photographed for the first time by Francis Frith in 1857. These inscriptions are among the first signs of proto-Sinaitic alphabet, which is derived from the Phoenician alphabet." (Mnamon, Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean)
"I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning [grammar] of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians"
"I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning [grammar] of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians"
-- 1 Nephi 1:2
Don Bradley's 2011 presentation, "‘President Joseph Has Translated a Portion’: Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates"
Archaeologists have found Egyptian hieratic writing on broken pieces of pots from an Israelite city dating to Lehi’s time.
“evidence for the commingling of Hebrew and Egyptian scripts has been discovered … in the Sinai Peninsula … [dating to] the sixth and seventh centuries B.C.”
2012, Dr. Calabro notes that, “the use of hieratic signs [in some inscriptions] extends beyond simply inserting them as symbols to substitute for Hebrew words,” but rather retain their Egyptian meanings... the order of hieratic signs is “contrary to common Egyptian practice … but in accordance with expected Hebrew word order."
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NOTES:
David Calabro, “The Hieratic Scribal Tradition in Preexilic Judah,” in Evolving Egypt: Innovation, Appropriation, and Reinterpretation in Ancient Egypt, BAR International Series 2397, ed. Kerry Muhlestein and John Gee (Oxford, Eng.: Archaeopress, 2012), 77.
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