No official position?

No official position? August 25, 2013

Here is an interesting statement from Blair Hodges that new Maxwell Institute “has no official position on the Book of Abraham” (posted on David Bokovoy’s Facebook page.)

Blair Hodges Just to be clear: the Maxwell Institute as such has no official position on the Book of Abraham, and the articles from Gee and Muhlestein represent their own perspectives. The Institute welcomes a variety of perspectives on these things.

This sort of vague statement naturally raises more questions that it answers:

No official position on Abrahamic authorship Book of Abraham?

No official position on the historicity of the Book of Abraham?

No official position on antiquity of the Book of Abraham?

No official position on the relationship of the Book of Abraham to the papyri?

No official position on the authenticity  of the Book of Abraham?

No official position on the scriptural status of the Book of Abraham?

No official position on the production of the Book of Abraham?

No official position on what Joseph Smith claimed about the Book of Abraham?

Does the Maxwell Institute have an official position on some of these questions, but not on others?  If so, which ones, and what positions?

And if the Maxwell Institute has no official position on the Book of Abraham, does it also have no official position on the Book of Mormon?

Some clarity would be welcome.  (And, unfortunately, unexpected.)


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