Brian M. Hauglid

Brian M. Hauglid is an associate professor at Brigham Young University (BYU), who has written in support of the Book of Abraham.
Background
Hauglid was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hauglid completed his B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from BYU in 1984. In 1991 he received an M.A., and in 1998 he received a Ph.D., both from the University of Utah in Arabic and Islamic Studies.
His dissertation focused on the Qisas al-anbiya of al-Tha'labi. His studies on these subjects have been noted by other authors. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and has presented papers at the American Oriental Society and the national and regional meetings of the American Academy of Religion. Hauglid was one of about ten contributors to the book Bible and Qu'ran: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality.
He is an editor for the Studies in the Book of Abraham series and a member of the advisory board of the Eastern Christian Texts Series of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. More recently, Hauglid has been named the editor of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity, a new annual journal for the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Hauglid was also a member of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies Academic Review Board.
Hauglid was also a major contibutor to the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon and Richard O. Cowan, ed., Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000) where he wrote seven articles ranging from Angel Abrea to Visions.
Hauglid has published in a number of areas such as Abraham in Islamic tradition, ancient temples, and New Testament textual studies.
Hauglid and his wife Tessa are the parents of three daughters. Tessa teaches in BYU's College of Humanities.
Mormon studies
Hauglid is a believing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2006, Hauglid presented new research on the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, a collection of papers from the period of Joseph Smith at the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research. Several manuscripts contain text from the Book of Abraham and critics have argued that they are the originally dictated translation papers. Some critics believe that these papers prove that Joseph smith was a fraud. In his presentation Hauglid argued that the papers could not have been the originally dictated manuscripts because they display evidence that they are merely copies of the originals. This has caused some controversy between Hauglid and critics of the Book of Abraham. Hauglid has a forthcoming book titled A Textual History of the Book of Abraham: Manuscripts and Editions that will provide a critical text and the typographic transcriptions of the Abraham manuscripts.
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