To the Latter-day Saints the Book of Abraham is scripture. It is a record originating with the ancient Patriarch Abraham and translated by the Prophet Joseph Smith, beginning in 1835. And while there is much of the history of the Book of Abraham and how it came to be that we do not know, because a documentary record either does not exist or hasn't yet been found, there is much we do not know. This episode of the History of the Saints is about the origins of the Book of Abraham.