EXCERPTS FROM PUBLISHED REVIEWS
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Mr. Greenberg seems to delight in a game of
scholarly ‘gotcha’. - N.Y. Times
► Insightful and valuable. —KMT
Magazine
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► A must read for those interested in biblical
scholarship. —The Tennessee Tribune
► An ingenious comparison of Biblical and Egyptian
history. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
► Guaranteed to
raise hackles and lively debate . . .
Sure to provoke challenge. —Denver Post
► This is
an intriguing and controversial book, bound
to add fuel to the still smoldering debate between Afrocentrists and
classicists over Africa’s role in the evolution of Western culture and
civilization. —MultiCultural Review
► It’s a
“hot’ subject and Greenberg’s publisher
hopes this work will appeal to students of (and opponents to) Afrocentrism. — Booklist
► Greenberg claims that the Genesis stories of the
patriarchs are modified Egyptian myths altered by Moses, a member of
the Egyptian royal line who was forced to flee the land after losing a
power struggle with Ramesses I. —The New York
Jewish Week
► Bold! Courageous! Potentially a paradigm shift in
biblical scholarship. —Professor Edgar A.
Gregersen, Professor of Anthropology, Queens College and Graduate
Center, City University of New York
► Greenberg offers some
engaging new insights into
the age-old problem of the Moses story. This volume should be of
interest to all those curious about the intimate links between ancient
Egypt and Israel. —Robert R. Stieglitz,
Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, Rutgers
University
► Even if one doesn’t accept Greenberg’s historical
reconstruction, he unquestionably succeeds
in bringing to one’s attention the largely neglected resonance
of
ancient Egyptian mythic archetypes in biblical narrative. —Prof.
Murray H. Lichtenstein, Dept. of Classical and Oriental Studies,
Hunter College, CUNY
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