What language did Joseph Smith spend two-and-a-half years translating the Book of Mor

What language did Joseph Smith spend two-and-a-half years translating the Book of Mormon into English from?

Reformed Egyption, whatever that means

It was supposed to be some form of Egyptian right? You know Native Americans and Egyptians are the same people and of course they are part of the tribes of Israel.......



....and the most important part!! Only he could see it.

who cares, its all a bunch of crap. He thought he saw an angel when he was actually suffering a fever induced hallucination. Records prove he had a 104.5 or higher fever at the time of the vision.

Gibberish!
But then that presupposes that the "Book of Mormon" ever existed in the first place which, given "Honest" Joe's track record and allowing for the fact that there is no "god", is extremely unlikely!

Reformed Egyptian, it is claimed by Mormon, descendant of Nephi, in his Book of Mormon (p478) chap. 9 verse 32: "Behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech." Mormon goes on to say they would have written in Hebrew had the plates been sufficiently large and, most strangely, that had it been Hebrew "ye would have had no imperfection in our record"! (verse 33). So is this an admission to the plates Joseph Smith received being imperfect? Then it says, "But the Lord NorthThhe things which we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our language; therefore he hath prepared means for the interpretation thereof."

This compares with the Holy Bible having always been written originally in the common language of the people of the times - Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. How likely is it that God would give the newest and allegedly greatest book of scripture in a language completely unknown?

Further, Moroni added 2 books of his own, one being the book of Ether - a prophet of the Jaredites who "retained a tongue patterned after that of Adam" - totally different to reformed Egyptian. Without supernatural help, Moroni was able to decipher and abridge plates written in the language of the Jaredites. What a linguist Moroni must have been! He knew reformed Egyptian, Adam's original language, and Hebrew. Now, if Hebrew was the more perfect language, why didn't that get used instead of a dead language nobody else in the world has ever heard of?

The Book of Mormon was translated in few months. The term "reformed Egyptian" means that it was written with Egyptian characters but in the Hebrew language. "the learning of the Jews, and the language of the Egyptians." They wrote this way because Egyptian characters took up far less space, and since they had to carve everything into gold or brass plates, it made it so they could write faster and fit more on a sheet.

From his mind to the page, mostly. The original has "disappeared."

Now watch it rain thumbs-down.

He claimed it was reformed Egyptian language, but I do not believe Joseph was any prophet of God, the same thing with Muhammad

None. He made the whole thing up. The original text was full of horrible grammatical errors.

It was 3 months actually. Translated from Hebrew that was using some form of Egyptian script

It was actually only a few months. And it was reformed Egyptian.

Assuming the facts are as outlined in the Book of Mormon it was a language that evolved over a 1000 year period (ever tried to read English as written just 500 years ago) Since an additional 1400 years had passed, it would be a lost language but was referred to as reformed Egyptian (evolved Hebrew Language written in evolved Egyptian characters) and incidentally, it was more like 2 and a half months. Much of it appears to be similar to the Bible but there are differences, which incidentally are in the same places that the dead sea scrolls, discovered several years later, differs from the Bible.

When the Book of Mormon was originally published, Smith was listed as the 'author' of the book. This was later changed to 'translator' in subsequent editions (without noting or explaining the change).

Smith produced most of the "translation" not by reading the plates through the Urim and Thummim (described as a pair of sacred spectacles), but by gazing at the same "seer stone" he had used for treasure hunting. He would place the stone into his hat, and then cover his face with it. For much of the time he was dictating, the gold plates were not even present, but in a hiding place.

He claimed that the plates were written in 'reformed Egyptian'. However, no such language has ever existed. The languages of the Native American tribes have no relationship to any old world language, including Egyptian and Hebrew.

Smith also claimed to translate the Book of Abraham from some Egyptian papyrus scrolls. The original papyrus were thought lost but surfaced in the 1960's and are now in the church's possession. However, examination of these scrolls has shown that they are common Egyptian funeral scrolls, entirely pagan, dating to the time of Christ (not Abraham) and make no mention of Abraham.

Smith also claimed that he could translate a set of plates (Kinderhook Plates) which seemed to be written in an unknown language. However, pranksters later admitted that the 'plates' were a hoax.

There is evidence supporting any of Smith's claims to be able to translated lost or unknown languages. Given that many of his 'translations' are pr oven hoaxes, then his claim to have translated the Book of Mormon must also be suspect. That, and the fact that there is no evidence to prove the existence of any person, place, or event unique to the Book of Mormon.

He read it from his hat.