EGypt/ ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $16.00 “A startling new theory that brings to life the biblical world of Joseph and places it firmly in the lead-up to Ancient Egypt’s most controversial period of history.” ANDREW COLLINS, author of From the Ashes of Angels and Gods of Eden “In The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt, Ahmed Osman single-handedly moves the goal posts of biblical scholarship. He successfully narrows the search for the historical Hebrew patri- archs by giving us a novel and persuasive case for a secret lineage of the patriarch Joseph. This is a ‘must read’ for all alternative history buffs and scholars alike.” RAND FLeM-ATH, coauthor of When the Sky Fell and The Atlantis Blueprint “_.. a fascinating and thought-provoking read. It is thoroughly well researched and convincingly argued.” GraHAM Pxtups, author of Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt When Joseph revealed his identity to his kinsmen who had sold him into slavery, he told them that God had made him “a father to Pharaoh.” Throughout the long history of ancient Egypt, only one man is known to have been given the title “a father to Pharaoh”—Yuya, a vizier of the Eighteenth Dynasty king Tuthmosis IV. Yuya has long intrigued Egyptologists because he was buried in the Valley of Kings even though he was not a member of the Royal House. His extraordinarily well-preserved mummy has a strong Semitic appearance, which suggests he was not of Egyptian blood, and many aspects of his burial have been shown to be contrary to Egyptian custom, As The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt shows, the idea that Joseph and Yuya may be one and the same person sheds a whole new light on the sudden rise of monotheism in Egypt, spearheaded by Queen Tiye and her son Akhenaten. It would clearly explain the deliberate obliteration of references to the “heretic” king and his successors by the last Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh, Horemheb, whom the author believes was the oppressor king in the Book of Exodus. Osman also draws on a wealth of detailed evidence from Egyptian, biblical, and Koranic sources to place the time of the departure of the Hebrews from Egypt during the short reign of Ramses I, the first king of the Nineteenth Dynasty. AHMED OSMAN was born in Cairo in 1934 to Egyptian Muslim parents. He studied law at Cairo University and later worked as a journalist and playwright. Since 1965 he has lived in England, This project is the cul- mination of twenty-two years of writing and research. Osman is also the author of Moses and Akhenaten and Out of Egypt. ISBN 159143022-4 BEAR & COMPANY ROCHESTER, VERMONT Cover illustration courtesy of Art Archive sds 9"78159 1"430223! Cover design by Peri Champine Author photo by Soha EdreesTHE HEBREW PHARAOHS —oFr == Soyer The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph AHMED OSMAN