Hauglid reconstructs the 1835 chronology of the Egyptian alphabet and grammar documents and the Book of Abraham manuscripts, and argues that parts of what are now Abraham 1 and 3 were derived from the language documents' "five-degree" definitions. He proposes that Smith's translation combined intellectual study with reliance on a gift of translation, without deciding what that gift was.
- Brian M. Hauglid, ““Translating an Alphabet to the Book of Abraham”: Joseph Smith’s Study of the Egyptian Language and His Translation of the Book of Abraham,” Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity (2020): 363–389.
- Robin Scott Jensen and Brian M. Hauglid, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts (Church Historian’s Press, 2018).