Ahmed Osman crafted a magnificent scholarly work of interest to both theologians and people in the pew. His book, The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt: The Secret Lineage of Patriarch Joseph, provides a tremendous amount of detailed background for lay readers, which otherwise can be dense and convoluted. Still, the text teems with footnotes and relies heavily on other preeminent authors, professors, museum artifacts, and Biblical quotations. In short it has all the trappings of an academic paper. Osman's work has relevance and consequences for Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Followers of faith who read this book and want to appreciate the depth the Osman's hypothesis must be willing to open their mind to think beyond traditional words heard in synagogue, mosques, temples and churches.

Early on Ahmed Osman clearly states his position as a person of faith and his cultural context and scholarly bias. Then he plunges into the Joseph narrative, literally word by word according to the Koran and the Hebrew Bible. I read the majority of the book while traveling in Egypt, which of course brought rich meaning and life to the pages. Not everyone can do that, but the book is still worth the read. Furthermore, in today's information virtual world, much of the artifacts used to build Osman's case are visible on the Internet from museum and university web sites.

Osman traces the lineage of a royal birthright from Abraham and Sarah's brief stay in Egypt. He follows it as Esau surrenders the birthright to Jacob for a meal, and eventually links it to Joseph and the rise of monotheism in the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Along this largely unheralded tale Osman makes many nice and very neat ties that have possibility. Some theologians, including myself, recognize the probability of Osman's theory. Pick up The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt, let go of preconceived notions and enjoy.

The Bible has already been shown as historically accurate be even atheist archeologists. This author is the type to believe the myths of Atlantean nuts who make up imaginary things about Egypt and Atlantis.

This is by far Osman's best book in his alternative history of early Christianity. If you're only going to read one of his books then this would certainly be the one I would recommend. In it, Osman lays out a clear and convincing argument that early Christianity evolved as a product of ancient Egyptian beliefs. This book also contains a good dose of early Christian history. So for those that are interested in early Christian history, this is certainly going to make for an interesting read.

I give it 1 star for creativity in fantasy literature, however I see this book as misleading to the simple in spirit.

Who has believed God's report? Isa 53:1,Jn 3:33.
The author plainly opposes the word of God, whether knowingly or not, God knows. For in Gen 50:25 it is written:
"And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." See also Heb 11:22. This was to indicate that Israel was eventually to return to the promised land, thus pointing to Christ.
He died, being 110 years old, was embalmed and put in a coffin, see Gen 50:26.
His prophecy was fulfilled and faithfully carried out by Moses, see Ex13:19, thus returning the bones of Joseph to the land of Canaan. His bones were buried in Shechem, see Joshua 24:32.

Dear Ahmed Osman, and dear reviewers,
I beg you to search the scriptures, for in it is contained the revelation of God and His Christ.
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12.
May Almighty God visit you, as He did the Israelites.

I give it 1 star for creativity in fantasy literature, however I see this book as misleading to the simple in spirit.

Who has believed God's report? Isa 53:1,Jn 3:33.
The author plainly opposes the word of God, whether knowingly or not, God knows. For in Gen 50:25 it is written:
"And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." See also Heb 11:22. This was to indicate that Israel was eventually to return to the promised land, thus pointing to Christ.
He died, being 110 years old, was embalmed and put in a coffin, see Gen 50:26.
His prophecy was fulfilled and faithfully carried out by Moses, see Ex13:19, thus returning the bones of Joseph to the land of Canaan. His bones were buried in Shechem, see Joshua 24:32.

Dear Ahmed Osman, and dear reviewers,
I beg you to search the scriptures, for in it is contained the revelation of God and His Christ.
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12.
May Almighty God visit you, as He did the Israelites.

Osman has fashioned a fascinating look at who biblical Joseph was: A historical figure in Egyptian history. The fuzzy dates of Egyptian history and the misunderstood chronologies in the Bible make this difficult, but Osman makes some reasonable conclusions on when these events occurred.

He does make some errors or oversights: 1. p.16: Genesis does not have two creation stories, the "second version," after summarizing creation it focuses on the details of man's creation. These accounts are complementary, not contradictory (See "The Genesis Question" by Hugh Ross).

2. p. 17: While it's true that the Pentateuch author(s) used multiple sources, Osman overuses the JEDP hypothesis and doesn't pay much attention to the criticisms that have arisen about JEDP (see Walter Kaiser's "The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable & Relevant?").

3. p. 19: The Bible does not place the creation of the world at a time when we know people were already here if it's properly translated (see "A Matter of Days" by Hugh Ross).

4. p. 19: There aren't errors in biblical chronologies when one realizes that not all people are included in biblical genealogies. Osman does mention valid disagreements over how to translate some passages such as the time the Hebrews spent in Egypt (see also Colin Humphreys' "The Miracles of Exodus" and the Ross books).

These oversights don't detract from the value of this book. I hope future editions will add additional sources and refinements. This book may very well be the history of Joseph.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.