A provocative thesis that the historical Jesus was connected to the royal 18th dynasty of Egypt

• Contends that Jesus, Joshua, and Tutankhamun were the same person

• Provides evidence from church documentation, the Koran, the Talmud, and archaeology that the Messiah came more than a millennium before the first century C.E.

• Shows that Christianity evolved from Essene teachings

Although it is commonly believed that Jesus lived during the first century C.E., there is no concrete evidence to support this fact from the Roman and Jewish historians who would have been his contemporaries. The Gospel writers themselves were of a later generation, and many accounts recorded in the Old Testament and Talmudic commentary refer to the coming of the Messiah as an event that had already occurred.

Using the evidence available from archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Koran, the Talmud, and biblical sources, Ahmed Osman provides a compelling case that both Jesus and Joshua were one and the same--a belief echoed by the early Church Fathers--and that this person was likewise the pharaoh Tutankhamun, who ruled Egypt between 1361 and 1352 B.C.E. and was regarded as the spiritual son of God. Osman contends that the Essene Christians--who followed Jesus' teachings in secret after his murder--only came into the open following the execution of their prophet John the Baptist by Herod, many centuries later. Yet it was also the Essenes who, following the death of Tutankhamun and his father Akhenaten (Moses), secretly kept the monotheistic religion of Egypt alive. The Essenes believed themselves to be the people of the New Covenant established between their Lord and themselves by the Teacher of Righteousness, who was murdered by a wicked priest. The Dead Sea Scrolls support Osman's contention that this Teacher of Righteousness was in fact Jesus.

Autorentext

Ahmed Osman was born in Cairo in 1934 and is the author of Moses and Akhenaten, Out of Egypt, and The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt. He lives in England.

Inhalt

What Is Truth?
Maps of region
Introduction

Book 1: The Scarlet Thread
1 Scandal of the Dead Sea Scrolls
2 A False Dawn?
3 Silent Witness
4 A Mischievous Superstition
5 The Nazarene
6 Another Time, Another Place
7 The Man Sent from God
8 The Suffering Servant
9 The Afterlife
10 Echoes from the Past
11 Death in the Wilderness
12 The Scarlet Thread
13 Cover-up
14 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
15 The Gospels

Book 2: The House of the Messiah
16 Child of Sin
17 Hiding the Sinful Truth
18 Peoples of the Sea
19 The Promised Land
20 The Two Davids
21 Journey to Heaven
22 Armageddon
23 A Tale of Two Cities
24 Jerusalem, City of David
25 Jerusalem, City of Peace
26 David and Abraham
27 David and Bathsheba

Book 3: Christ the King
28 The Living Image of the Lord
29 The Virgin Birth
30 The Holy Family
31 The Hidden One
32 Evidence from the Tomb
33 The Lost Sheep

Appendices
A Testaments Old and New
B The Destruction of Hazor
C David and Goliath
D The Autobiography of Sinuhe
E The Virgin Fountain
F King of Peace
G Rebellion
H District Commissioners
I The Queen of Sheba and the Glass Lake
J The Wisdom of Solomon

Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index