Thom Hobson, a Protestant critic of the Church, wrote the following:
Aside from Joseph’s revisions of the Bible, for which there was no
original manuscripts to which to appeal, no one had been able to test Joseph’s ability
to translate. That is, until 1967, when there came some shocking news, delivered
by BYU professor Hugh Nibley, one of the top defenders of the LDS Church.
“The papyri scripts given to the Church do not prove the Book of Abraham
is true.” Dr. Nibley goes on to warn his audience, “LDS scholars are caught
flat footed by this discovery.” There it was, on page four of BYU’s Daily
Universe on Friday, December 1, 1967. (Good luck finding a photocopy! You
won’t find it online. It is old news that has been “shadow-banned” for
decades.) (Thom Hobson, The Historical Jesus and the Historical Joseph Smith
[Nashville, Tenn.: Elm Hill, 2019], 72)
Hobson is lying through his teeth. I managed to find
the following after less than 5 minutes of looking through www.archive.org. Here is the link to page 4 of the December 1, 1967 issue of the Daily Universe, and below is the image of the article (click to enlarge):
