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The Pearl of Great Price (PGP) is a collection of scriptures of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Mormonism). The PGP includes: the Book of Abraham, a book dealing with Abraham's journeys in Egypt, containing many distinctive Mormon doctrines such as exaltation; the Book of Moses, which comes from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible; the Joseph Smith-History, a history of the early church by Joseph Smith, Jr.; Joseph Smith-Matthew, a translation of a portion of the Gospel of Matthew by Smith; and the Articles of Faith, a brief summary of the major doctrines of the Mormon faith written by Joseph Smith for a newspaper.
Considerable controversy surrounds the Book of Abraham, and the surviving papyri from that is available today.