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Summary: Good Book
Review: Commenting on the fact that Akhenaton was of mixed descent, well...believe it or not, but most egyptians and egyptian kings were of mixed descent. In fact, the purely black Nubians were considered low class and mostly taken as slaves whenever extra work was needed to acquire more gold from the Upper Egyptian mines. Therefore, there was little need for Akhenaton to convince others of his legitimacy since as son of Tiye and Amenhotep III he was considered legitimate. Therefore, unless you are a religious zelot, this book is fantastic since it dares to draw a link between Hebrew origins and Egyptian aristocracy, and though some parts are good for a laugh, most of it is coherent and very inciteful.
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Summary: Interesting alternative history
Review: Drawing on the Bible, the Koran and various ancient Egyptian sources, the author places the events of Exodus in the time of Ramses I. This new interpretation of history may be compared with the work of Velikovsky although their conclusions are not the same; Velikovsky identifies Ramses I with Necho I of the end of the 7th century B.C. I don't know who is correct, but Osman certainly provides a great read in this book as he identifies the biblical Joseph with Yuya, grand vizier of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tuthmose IV. From this follows the introduction of monotheism by queen Tiye and her son Akhenaten. This explains the animosity shown towards Akhenaten and his religion by the later pharaoh Horemheb, whom Osman identifies as the oppressor king of the book of Exodus. This book consists of two parts: A Father To Pharaoh which details the aforementioned history, and Notes And Sources, which contains the evidence and an interesting chapter on the name of Joseph/Yuya. This fascinating work concludes with a bibliography and index. I also recommend The House Of The Messiah by this author plus the books of Immanuel Velikovsky, like Ages In Chaos, Oedipus And Akhnaten an Ramses II And His Time.
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Summary: more garbage
Review: Its Obvious that this author did not understand the Old Kingdom of Egypt inwhich the practice of Monotheism was already established in the form of the Supreme Creators attributes ( The neteru). This was what the whole principle of Ma'at was built upon. Indeed ppl will do anything to make money, and for the record Joseph was not considered a hebrew along with his other nomadic tribesmen who came from the mount sinai area to escape war and famine, this was a caucasion(Albino's) group who gradually entered the northern parts of Black Africa (Nubian-Sudanic-Egyptian territory) and claimed it for themselves through different means of negative social intergrouping, they were considered traveling nomads who found there way into the Black African world being a bunch of kiss asses, who forced and brown-nosed there way to the top. Joseph was a side-show to the Egytian king nothing more and akenaton was a mixed idiot of nomad descent and Egyptian royal blood who did not understand egyptian philosophy, this is why almost everything he had built was destroyed after he was over-thrown and exiled from egypt, especially since he was not seen and accepted as a pure Black Royal Egytian, being that he was mixed, and also his destruction of the Amon temples to spite the ppl who did not accept him as true royalty, the Aten neter was worshiped by akenetons mother and other nomads who had settled in those parts of Egypt where Aton was worshipped, akaneton deified it over all the other neteru in a lame attempt to reinvent the wheel. This is just another sad attempt to defame African knowledge and replace it with something white and obscure. This is another white supremist book that must be taken with a grain of salt.
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Summary: Shedding light on the sudden rise of monotheism in Egypt
Review: The Hebrew Pharaohs Of Egypt: The Secret Lineage Of Patriarch Joseph by Ahmed Osman explores the possibility that Biblical Joseph (who was sold into slavery by his kin), was one and the same with Yuya, a vizier of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Tuthmosis IV. Shedding light on the sudden rise of monotheism in Egypt as spread by Queen Tiye and her son Akhenaten, The Hebrew Pharaohs Of Egypt is an intriguing, iconoclastic, and highly recommended study which draws upon Biblical and scientific findings to offer a unique interpretation of this specific aspect of the Biblical record.
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Summary: Very Convincing
Review: While the theories of his other books of this genre (namely that Jesus and Moses were Pharoahs) are far-fetched in my opinion, this theory of Joseph and Yuya being the same person appears spot-on. The details fit together almost as perfectly as one could expect considering the language and culture barrier between Hebrew and Egyptian. I am convinced.
My only complaint about this book is that the author makes a few unwarranted assumptions, most notably about the nature of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, which seem designed to promote the entirety of his theories about the origins of Israel and Judaism.
If read as a stand-alone theory concerning Joseph, this book is very convincing.
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