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In 1842, Smith published the first part of the [[Book of Abraham]], which he said was a direct translation from the papyri.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/eng/scriptures/pgp/introduction|title=Introduction|website=www.churchofjesuschrist.org}}</ref><ref>For the distribution of the manuscript fragments, see John Gee, "Eyewitness, Hearsay, and Physical Evidence of the Joseph Smith Papyri," in The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, ed. Stephen D. Ricks et al. (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000), 188—91; and John Gee, A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000), 10—13.</ref> The consensus among both Mormon and non-Mormon scholars is that the characters on the surviving papyrus fragments do not match Smith’s translation. A translation of the [[Book of Joseph (Latter Day Saints)|Book of Joseph]] was never published by Smith, but the scroll purported to be the untranslated Book of Joseph has been found to be a copy of the Egyptian [[Book of the Dead]], a common funerary document, which contains no references to the biblical patriarch Joseph.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.42.2.0095|first=Barney|last=Quinten|title=The Joseph Smith Papyri and the Writings of Joseph of Egypt|journal=Journal of Mormon History|volume=42|issue=2|pages=95–109|date=April 2016|doi=10.5406/jmormhist.42.2.0095|jstor=10.5406/jmormhist.42.2.0095}}</ref><ref name="auto4">{{cite web|url=https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V03N02_69.pdf|title=Wilson, John A. The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri, Translations and Interpretations; Dialogue Journal 1968.}}</ref>
After [[Death of Joseph Smith|Smith's death]], the papyri passed through several hands; they were presumed to have reached a museum in Chicago and subsequently destroyed in the [[Great Chicago Fire]]. Not all of the fragments were burned, however, and some were eventually acquired by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in 1947.<ref>"Review of the Year 1947," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7/1 (1948): 17.</ref> The museum knew the importance of the papyri to [[
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