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	New York Freudian Society : Freud Abstracts Vol 23
		The man Moses, who set the Jewish people free, who gave them their laws and founded their religion, dates from such remote times (thirteenth or fourteenth century B.C.) that we cannot evade a preliminary enquiry as to whether he was a historical personage or a creature of legend.
		The name, Moses, was Egyptian, coming from the Egyptian word "mose" meaning "child." The recognition that the name of Moses is Egyptian has not been considered decisive evidence of his origin, and no further conclusions have been drawn from it.
		When Moses brought the people the idea of a single god, it was not a novelty but signified the revival of an experience in the primeval ages of the human family which had long vanished from men's conscious memory.
	nyfreudian.org /abstracts_27_23.html (11256 words)

	Resurrected Moses, The
		If Moses was governor of a providence such as Gosen, were certain Semitic tribes had settled, while still holding his religious convictions and hoping to keep his political ambitions alive, he might have adopted these people as his own because most Egyptians were reverting back to their former polytheistic religion.
		In Midian, Moses no longer was the needed leader as he had been in Egypt, therefore, the deed of freeing the people was attributed to Jahve, or God; and this was signified by Moses, who became the mediator between God and the people, receiving the Ten Commandments.
		Moses' act of breaking the tablets has to be has to be seem symbolically as "he has broken the law," which is inscribed to Moses himself to impute his angry indignation.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/r/resurrected_moses_the.html (5029 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Freud's Jewish Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Freud's Moses and Monotheism is surely one of the most curious last works of a major writer.
		...Though Moses was in the first instance a distant object of historical inquiry for Freud, many of the terms in which he is evoked betray an imaginative identification of the inventor of psychoanalysis with the iconoclastic Egyptian prince he sees in Moses: "He must have been conscious of his great abilities, ambitious, and energetic...
		...Moses and Monotheism is thus peculiar among modern Jewish ideological manifestoes in simultaneously affirming and submerging a distinctive historical purpose for the Jewish people...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V93I1P50-1.htm (2864 words)

	Freud: Jewish Universalism comes from Akhnaton; Yahweh is tribal
		The man Moses, the liberator of his people, who gave them their religion and their laws, belonged to an age so remote that the preliminary question arises whether he was a historical person or a legendary figure.
		It was a strict monotheism, the first attempt of its kind in the history of the world, as far as we know; and religious intolerance, which was foreign to antiquity before this and for long after, was inevitably born with the belief in one God.
		Moses was said to have been "slow of speech" that is to say, he must have had a speech impediment or inhibition so that he had to call on Aaron (who is called his brother) for assistance in his supposed discussions with Pharaoh.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/moses.html (13923 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Moses in the Thought of Freud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...Moses and Monotheism must be considered in a typically Freudian manner, as having a manifest and latent content...
		the man Moses created their character by giving to them a religion which heightened their self-confidence to such a degree that they believed themselves to be superior to all other peoples...
		...Moses and Monotheism is indeed one of the grossest distortions of the Biblical text committed in modern times by a reputable scholar...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V26I4P52-1.htm (6826 words)

	reinha
		Monotheism is at once a mass delusion and the repository of something truthful, some "fragment of truth" that forms the kernel of the obsessive behavior that for Freud characterizes religious practice.
		As a "construction," Moses and Monotheism is not just another element in the string of psychoanalytic interpretations of culture that came before and after it, another attempt to get at the "historical truth" of western culture; rather, in calling a halt to his cultural analysis, Freud is attempting to reconfigure the structure of its fantasy.
		Moses and Monotheism is a construction in Freud's methodological sense of the word, and as such, it constitutes a scansion in the fifty-year long session that was Freud's clinical and critical analysis of western civilization.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /Jouvert/v3i12/reinha.htm (8181 words)

	MavicaNET - Monotheism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Monotheism (from the Greek monos "only", and theos "god") is a word coined in comparatively modern times to designate belief in the one supreme God, the Creator and Lord of the world, the eternal Spirit, All-powerful, All-wise, and All-good, the Rewarder of good and the Punisher of evil, the Source of our happiness and perfection.
		Monotheism characterizes the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and elements of the belief are discernible in numerous other religions.
		Exoteric Monotheism is a particularily persuasive and widespread worldview, possibly because it is easy to anthropomorphise the supreme Reality into an external creator deity, most often male, a projection perhaps of patriarchial chieftains or a parental father into a sort of supernatural father figure.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/isl/17008.html (505 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Moses and Monotheism, according to Said, is a classic example of this particular style.
		In these works, like in Moses and Monotheism, the thrust is not towards an easy resolution or reconciliation but towards an avoidance of closure; these works remain unpolished gems, at times even episodic and fragmentary.
		Looking at Moses, the original hero of the Jews, Freud stressed Moses’s Egyptian identity and the fact that Moses’s ideas about a single God were derived from the Egyptian Pharaoh, “who is universally credited with the invention of monotheism”.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030613/asp/opinion/story_2064942.asp (447 words)

	© PSYCHOMEDIA - Jep17 - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe & Jean-Luc Nancy - From Where is Psychoanalysis Possible? (Part ...
		In Moses and Monotheism the Jewish people are constituted through the adoption of the patronymic in an operation that is simultaneously a depropriation and an identification: the founding act of nomination comes from outside.
		Or, more precisely, Moses was assassinated (an anonymous, collective killing: Freud speaks of a revolt, Reik had evoked a lynching) and it was with this murder-by way, however, of a complex process and a different version of history to which I will return-that the identity of the Jewish people was instituted.
		It is Moses, as Freud ceaselessly repeats, who created the Jewish people; it is he who molded its character or imprinted its type, who sealed, as though upon wax, its proper being (Freud inevitably uses the verb pr_gen to signify the act).
	www.psychomedia.it /jep/number17/labarte-nancy.htm (5111 words)

	The Moses Myth, beyond Biblical History By Brian Britt
		Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism (1939), dismissed by historians and psychologists both, has lately inspired a whole literature on tradition, memory, and the possibility that group memories can be repressed and recovered.
		Moses’ biblical portrait suggests a struggle between a legendary hero and a flawed servant charged with resolving disputes and inaugurating written traditions.
		Biographies of Moses that depart radically from the biblical account may reflect the way traditions have of neutralizing and forgetting what they enshrine, but their variety may also reflect a robust tradition capable of adapting to change.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Britt-Moses_Myth.htm (1784 words)

	Exploded Manuscript (192b) Moses and Monotheism -- Sigmund Freud
		Exploded Manuscript (192b) Moses and Monotheism -- Sigmund Freud
		In the certainty that I should now be persecuted not only for my line of thought but also for my “race”— accompanied by many of my friends, I left the city which, from my early childhood, had been my home for seventy-eight years.
		He completed his study of Moses and the traumatic origins of monotheism in exile in London.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/freud/ex/192b.html (79 words)

	Moses and Monotheism
		Moses and Monotheism is a little book that Freud wrote about Anti-Semitism and the fact that we cannot know if Moses was really an Egyptian.
		To maintain that monotheism was an Egyptian invention and Moses an Egyptian who was murdered by the Jews because of his message, was to rob the Jewish people of its greatest contribution and its greatest leader.
		Interpretation and critique of Moses and Monotheism are wide and varied.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/poemhyp07.htm (907 words)

	Amazon.com: Moses and Monotheism (Vintage): Books: Sigmund Freud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moses was murdered because he restricted access to the women of the tribe, in repetition of the totemic archetype.
		Moses, the greatest of the Hebrew prophets, has protected the Jews from the wrath of God, and negotiated with God on their behalf, according to the Torah, is an Egyptian Princely sage, according to Sigmund Freud.
		Moses is of course a symbol of Law and Might and Justice and for the Jews direct contact with God in a way no other human being will ever have.
	www.amazon.com /Moses-Monotheism-Vintage-Sigmund-Freud/dp/0394700147 (3163 words)

	Moses in Egypt
		Strict monotheism is first demanded of the Israelites in connection with Moses and the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, and therefore, writers throughout the ages have made the association between Akhenaten and Moses.
		Furthermore, Akhenaten's religion was, at least to some extent, the culmination of a path established by earlier pharaohs, but perhaps even more importantly, it should be noted that, according to the Bible, only after leaving Egypt were the Israelites given the laws of god which required that their Lord be worshipped exclusively.
		In fact, monotheism plays no real significant role in the Book of Exodus, which is assumed to be the earliest version of Moses' story, and by all accounts, prior to receiving the Ten Commandments, the Israelites worshipped more than one god.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/moses.htm (1229 words)

	Amazon.de: Moses and Monotheism: English Books: Sigmund Freud,Katherine Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this, his last book, Freud argues that Moses was an Egyptian nobleman and that the Jewish religion was in fact an Egyptian import to Palestine.
		Freud also writes that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, in a reenactment of the primal crime against the father.
		Although much of his views on the Egyptian origin of the name 'Moses' have been scientifically doubted, the book is still powerful enough to make you think.
	www.amazon.de /Moses-Monotheism-Sigmund-Freud/dp/0394700147 (668 words)

	Moses and Machiavellism
		This is the image of Moses frozen in stone by Machiavelli's contemporary, Michaelangelo, the vision of Moses we are left with by the narrator at the conclusion of the Torah: "Remember the strong hand of Moses and the terrible deeds which he did in the sight of all Israel."(Deut.
		Moses, on the other hand, is provided with the occasion but he alternates between heeding and resisting the call.
		Moses distinguishes between the treatment of cities that are "at a great distance" and those which are "nearby." When the former are attacked, they should first be offered peace.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~smarx/Publications/moses.html (8734 words)

	monotheism / Abraham/Ibrahim/Zoroaster / Jacob/Akhenaton/Moses/Salomon
		Moses was allowed to leave again for Sinai, however, accompanied by the Israelites, his mother's relatives, and the few Egyptians who had been converted to the new [monotheistic] religion that he had attempted to force upon Egypt a quarter of a century earlier.
		Moses admitted that the sages were right and that he had been given from birth many evil traits of character but that he had held them under control and succeeded in conquering them.
		This, the narrative concludes, was Moses' greatness, that, in spite of his tremendous handicaps, he managed to become the man of God.
	www.solami.com /a1.htm (12723 words)

	The Question of God . Moses and Monotheism \| PBS
		He enhanced their self-confidence by assuring them that they were the chosen people of God; he declared them to be holy and laid on them the duty to keep apart from others.
		The self-confidence of the Jews, however, became through Moses anchored in religion; it became a part of their religious belief.
		And since we know that behind the God who chose the Jews and delivered them from Egypt stood the man Moses, who achieved that deed, ostensibly at God's command, I venture to say this: it was one man, the man Moses, who created the Jews.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/questionofgod/ownwords/moses.html (532 words)

	Alibris: Monotheism
		The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism
		THE CURSE OF CAIN confronts the inherent ambiguities of biblical stories on many levels and, in the end, offers an alternative, inspiring reading of the Bible that is attentive to visions of plenitude rather than scarcity, and to an ethics based on generosity rather than violence.
		Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Monotheism (963 words)

	Oedipus and Akhnaton
		When Moses and Monotheism (M&M) was published, a number of scholars held that Egyptian Pharaoh Akhnaton (Amenhotep IV) was the world's first (royal) monotheist and that Moses, who lived at the same time, encouraged the Hebrews to adopt Akhnaton's religion.
		Freud thus has Moses as being a high ranking Egyptian who was a devout adherent of Ikhnaton's monotheism.
		Indeed, in the very first sentence of Part I: Moses an Egyptian (Imago 1937) Freud says: "To deny a people the man whom it praises as the greatest of its sons is not a deed to be undertaken lightheartedly--especially by one belonging to that people.
	www.datasync.com /~rsf1/vel/oedipus.htm (1441 words)

	Hippodrome State Theatre: Hysteria: Perspectives
		Freud’s publications include The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious, Moses and Monotheism and Totem and Taboo.
		He tried to persuade Freud not to publish his work on Moses (Moses and Monotheism).
		This is a reference to Freud’s work, Moses and Monotheism that prompted many debates from his neighbor, Abraham Yahuda, an Egyptian Bible scholar.
	thehipp.org /hysteria_perspectives.html (1558 words)

	Nextbook: Reading Lists
		Today, Freud is generally understood as a mythmaker—an essentially literary figure—rather than as the scientist he claimed to be.
		In Moses and Monotheism, his last book, he created one of the most provocative and imaginative of his myths.
		The original Moses, he writes, was an Egyptian nobleman who taught the Israelites the monotheistic cult of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
	www.nextbook.org /books/book_author.html?bookid=124 (377 words)

	Freud's Moses and Monotheism -- funny as Bozo the clown
		Sigmund Freud is best known as the forefather of modern psychology (now held somewhat in disrepute) who turned every elongated item in town into a sexual symbol.
		He is less known for something else he did that was not having to do with psychology (though he did throw a lot into it) -- a book titled Moses and Monotheism.
		And that's all that really needs to be said, because what's new from Freud is what's old from the front.
	www.tektonics.org /af/freudfraud.html (174 words)

	Amazon.com: Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable: Books: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The murder of the father, the repression, guilt, and rehabilitation or return became part of the Jewish character, according to Freud--an inherited characteristic.
		In the last chapter, a dramatic monologue with Freud, Yerushalmi applies the theory to Freud himself, a secular Jew, with Freud as Moses and his father as the god who gave him a sacred text, a personally inscribed Bible with the implied mandate that he accept his Jewish heritage.
		In ``deferred obedience,'' he writes Moses and Monotheism and, identifying with an Egyptian rather than a Jewish Moses, expiates his guilt for rejecting his father.
	amazon.com /Freud-Moses-Judaism-Terminable-Interminable/dp/0300057563 (1033 words)

	Judaism: Fromm, Freud, and Midrash.
		On Freud's concerns about publishing his work on Moses, see Jerry Victor Diller, Freud's Jewish Identity: A Case Study in the Impact of Ethnicity (London/Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1991), pp.
		For the contrary suggestion that Freud posited an Egyptian Moses because he wanted a repressed Moses, see Elizabeth J. Bellamy, Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the "Jewish Question" After Auschwitz (Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), pp.
		Yerushalmi suggests that Freud had originally intended to do a psychoanalytic study of Moses (p.
	www.come-and-hear.com /editor/ajc-freud-gertel/index-10.html (385 words)

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		What is evident is that the book is truly provocative - rare for any book - no less a slight, speculative work of less than 200 pages, written somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century.
		The Bible shows Moses as the founder of the faith, while...
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