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Tut-Ankh-Amen: Living Image of the Lord

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Yet another of this author's bulleted lists of unsubstantiated facts. Ahmed Osman's work is stripped to a few sentences and presented as fact with no backing. And if you've read Gadalla's first work, Historical Deception, you may notice you are reading a carbon copy of some of the chapers in it, repackaged and retitled.

In 1992 a book was published in the UK with the title "The House of the Pharaos" (Listed in this book as "The House of the Messiah"). By now it has been re-published in the US as Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on the Historical Jesus. In 1997 Moustafa Gadalla published a book on the same issue, the one reviewed here. As I am familiar with both authors and appreciated the previous one, respectively some of the previous ones I had read, I read the two books of above in tandem in order to compare them. I have to say, I am deeply shocked about the ever deteriorating integrity of Moustafa Gadalla and severely concerned for the infringement of Osman's copyright. Moustafa Gadalla wasn't merely influenced by Ahmed Osman, he copied his work. As in: even the very words. Just having have read Osman's book before, I felt caught in a continuous déjà vu warp. The only thing he has done is to downsize Osman's some 300 text pages to a some 130 pages booklet. Smaller in size and bigger in the letters, that's probably further dividable at least by 2 compared to Osman's text pages. I am amazed upon reading two pages of bibliography supposedly used for Gadalla's book. In reality, the three books of Osman listed should have sufficed, maybe two others for the epilogue. (Small sections have been plagiarised from Osman's Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus as sick). The only section besides the epilogue and part of the brief introduction not having been penned by Osman before (that I am aware of) is a 3-page insert about Easter and Egyptian easter eggs. As I have rated Osman's original with 3.5 stars, I cannot help, but have to subtract further: For the audacity of copying. For delivering not even a quarter of the original's content, including the reasoning. Which isn't really helping the controversial content of the original book. For smoothing the not altogether congenial elements of Osman's book, thereby causing the material to appear to be more flawless than the more upfull Osman originally indirectly acknowledged is not the case. And finally for using Osman's work to further his own anti-Jewish (and anti-Christian) cause. Gadalla has produced downly racist, classist, religionist and culturalist booklets before (Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa), so this outgrowth of bias doesn't really come as a surprise. There is talk of the Bible causing the on-going blood feud in the Middle East and ancient Egypt becoming "the permanent casualty of the 'CHOSEN PEOPLE'", and similar side blows. Which are about the only words added to this book by Gadalla himself (besides continously misspelling "hierarchy"). Whereas Osman, in stark contrast, remarked that, according to his theory, a priest slew Jesus and WITHOUT the support of anyone from the regular Jewish people as traditionally claimed, the latter causing resentment till today. Instead, according to the theory, Gadalla stresses the non-involvement of the Romans in Jesus' execution, putting ALL the blame on the Jews. Other changed tendencies include titling the section about the peaceful and wise King Solomon as "The Weak Grandfather". Whereas the war-hungry David becomes "The Mighty Great3-Grandfather". Which shows Gadalla's own priorities ever so bluntly.

As for the content of the book itself: That's averaging this entire book to 1.5 stars, as I cannot ignore it completely. If I hadn't read the original before, I would have probably rated the smoothed content higher than 3.5 stars, in turn averaging the entire book a bit higher. Just the day before I have reviewed the original and I don't like to repeat myself, repeating the reading with this rip-off was a big enough time thief already. For anybody agreeing that a reader's digest may not be that advisable with this sort of controversial revelatory content I give the urgent advice to read Osman's original instead. Also, inspired by Osman's work, Ralph Ellis wrote yet another book series on the subject, identifying Jesus and Moses with other historical figures, which I am starting to read now. The first one is: Jesus: Last of the Pharoahs (amazon's 2007 spelling).

Actually, Tutankhamen's name means "Living Image of the God Amen"; Tutankhneb would be "Living Image of Lord", which we know wasn't his name. If the author can't get even the most rudimentary of hieroglyphs correct, one wonders what right he has to try and write a book covering this much history?

Just one example of how "facts" are twisted neatly to fit his own agendas. And this book IS written with an agenda -- to convince you of something that's impossible, and to take your money. Give the Boy King a rest. If Moustafa really respected ancient Egypt, he would allow Tutankhamen's soul to have a little piece and not slander it with works like this.

The author tried to convince reader that Tut-ankh-amen was Jesus Christ, but did an inadequate job. There was however, valuable information presented in the book.

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.

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.

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 into orthodox religion or doggedness, 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.

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.

It is trully amazing when you can find a book that sends you in a totally different direction of thought. I found this book very interesting and would strongly recomend it to anyone who wants a fresh look at the history surounding the bible.

"The Living Image of the Lord" is the translated meaning of King Tut's birth name. King Tut was called the spiritual Son of God and the Messiah/Christ meaning the "anointed one," who is "the King." History has no evidence of the New Testament story of the birth, life, and death of Jesus and there is an expanse of evidence that Jesus lived many centuries earlier. "Tut-Ankh-Amen: The Living Image of the Lord" reveals history's greatest conspiracy and cover-up to re-create the character of Jesus, living in another place and another time. Powerful evidence derived from archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Talmud, and the Bible are thought-provoking and call for a re-examination of basic assumptions as the historical person, his teachings, his life and death and resurrection are examined from a unique perspective to reveal the relationships between Jesus of Nazareth and King Tut of Egypt.