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Summary: No Respect,, some good info
Review: After about page 35, I lost respect for the author and this book. I study history, Egyptology and Theology. However, it appears to me that facts are certainly twisted in this book. The author USES scripture when it is advantageous to his theory. The scripture used is followed by his PERCEPTION of it taken out of context. The author also purposely misplaces biblical figures in time to make his theory feasible. I'm a firm believer in God and Spirituality. I am not a Christian, so I wasn't turned off because of that aspect. I was turned off because the author made facts irrelevant when it was suitable for his theory.
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Summary: Reviewer's Choice
Review: As a Christian, I found this book to answer many of the questions that Church elders refuse to talk about. The writings attributed to Moses are filled with Egyptian lore. Why? This book by Mr. Gadalla sheds light on these issues. The best part about this book is that it can be read in an evening but compiles information that only a scholar would have time to simplify. The book represents a distillation of thousands of pages (and hours) of reading into one small information packed volume. While much of the information is not new to Ministerial Students, it will be new to the rest of us who are not included in the "Inner Circle". I've bought several copies as gifts to my close friends. Last but not least, the book was not a threat to my Christian Beliefs, but rather it helped clarify how some of the peripheral, but not related, anecdotes about Jesus got started in the first place. Why the Church chose to add them is a subject of yet another book.
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Summary: Meatless theory
Review: I came to this theory via the Caesar/Christ parallels. And of the two, Caesar wins out. The oriental archetype of the 'king' is no conspiracy or coincidence. What great hero wasn't born under divine supervision, fought opposition and died a venerated death? One could make a similar argument with the similarities between Jesus and Superman (or Kennedy, or Charlie Brown), requiring the reader to suspend disbelief less frequently. Worst of all is the offensively thin scholarship pertaining to the Qumran scrolls and the Talmud.
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Summary: Some people seem to have misread this book...
Review: I noticed a that couple criticisms of this book are not quite accurate. The author did not say that Tut-Ankh-Amen means the Living image. He said Tut's birth name, Tut-Ankh-ATON, means the living image. This is a correct translation as the Aton (or Aten) was an abstraction. I can understand someone not agreeing with the author, but let's not mislead his potential audience by misquoting him. And many of the ideas here are borrwed from Ahmed Osman. But the author doesn't try to hide this. I recommend this book.
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Summary: A New Look at History
Review: Moustafa Gadalla is an excellent author and a genius. I've read this book twice and I was very very amazed!!! He was able to use the origin of words and the use of languages to connect Egyptian history with that of the Biblical Jesus. He uses sources like the Tulmud, the Bible, Egyptian spirituality, and the life of Tut-Ankh-Amen to piece together the whole story of where the Christ story originated from. I would have never thought of this!!! I recommend this book for anyone who's fascinated with Biblical origins and Egyptian mysteries.
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Summary: A Good Study of Egyptian and Biblical History
Review: Moustafa Gadalla is an excellent author and a genius. I've read this book twice and I was very very amazed!!! He was able to use the origin of words and the use of languages to connect Egyptian history with that of the Biblical Jesus. He uses sources like the Tulmud, the Bible, Egyptian spirituality, and the life of Tut-Ankh-Amen to piece together the whole story of where the Christ story originated from. I would have never thought of this!!! I recommend this book for anyone who's fascinated with Biblical origins and Egyptian mysteries.
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Summary: Beware of this book, it is halfway researched
Review: Moustafa Gadalla is notorious for not doing complete and thorough research. First of all Tut-Ankh-Amen does not mean "The living Image of the Lord". In Egyptian cosmology the aspect of god called Amen actually means the hidden or unseen force, that which from all creation came. The Egyptians never referred to this deity as Lord. In this book the author goes to great lengths to prove that Tut-Ankh-Amen was the historical Jesus. He makes very good conjectures about the possibility of AmenHotep III being King Solomon of the Bible and Ankhenaten possibly being Moses, However his research seemed to stop short, as it does in most of his books and he then begins to match up bible passages with Egyptian proverbs and prayers to prove that the young Pharaoh was Jesus. The author never touches on the possibility that the story of Jesus may have been a retelling of the mythical story of Heru (Horus) and that Jesus the person may never had existed, ironically if the author had included this in his book he would have lended himself more evidence to prove his theory because he could have claim that the stories of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Heru, and Jesus got intertwined somehow. But this is the problem with Gadalla, he never does the complete research necessary to support his claim just enough to sell a book. The idea that the young king may have been Jesus is fascinating but there was just not enough evidence given in this book.
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