JOSEPH SMITH’S KIRTLAND EGYPTIAN PAPERS: HIEROGLYPHS, THE SACERDOTAL GENEALOGY, AND THE ANTIDOTE TO BABEL The Kirtland Egyptian Papers (KEP) have occasioned considerable controversy but have largely evaded substantive analysis. When properly understood in their historical context, the KEP present a pictographic hermeneutics of primal language (the one spoken in Eden), while they disclose an expanded …