Moses Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Literature=== * [[Sigmund Freud]], in his last book, ''[[Moses and Monotheism]]'' in 1939, postulated that Moses was an Egyptian nobleman who adhered to the [[monotheism]] of [[Akhenaten]]. Following a theory proposed by a contemporary [[Biblical criticism|biblical critic]], Freud believed that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, producing a collective sense of [[Patricide|patricidal]] guilt that has been at the heart of Judaism ever since. "Judaism had been a religion of the father, Christianity became a religion of the son", he wrote. The possible Egyptian origin of Moses and of his message has received significant scholarly attention.{{Sfn | Assmann | 1997}}{{Page needed |date=September 2015}}<ref>{{cite book | first = Y. | last = Yerushalmi | type = monograph | title = Freud's Moses}}</ref>{{full citation needed|reason=publisher? date?|date=May 2022}} Opponents of this view observe that the religion of the Torah seems different from [[Atenism]] in everything except the central feature of devotion to a single god,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.atenism.org/ |publisher= Atenism |title= Order of the Aten Temple |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060901060412/http://atenism.org/ |archive-date= 2006-09-01 }}</ref> although this has been countered by a variety of arguments, e.g. pointing out the similarities between the [[Great Hymn to the Aten|Hymn to Aten]] and [[Psalm 104]].{{Sfn | Assmann | 1997}}{{Page needed |date=September 2015}}<ref>{{cite journal |first=James E. |last=Atwell |title= An Egyptian Source for Genesis 1 |journal=[[Journal of Theological Studies]] |year=2000 |volume=51 |issue= 2 |pages= 441β77 |doi=10.1093/jts/51.2.441 }}</ref> Freud's interpretation of the historical Moses is not well accepted among [[historian]]s, and is considered [[pseudohistory]] by many.<ref>{{cite book |title=Freud and the Legacy of Moses |author-link=Richard J. Bernstein |first=Richard J. |last=Bernstein |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-521-63096-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/freudlegacyofmos00bern }}</ref>{{Page needed |date=September 2015}} * [[Thomas Mann]]'s novella ''[[The Tables of the Law]]'' (1944) is a retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its main character.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ch0SyirgZDgC&q=%22The+Tables+of+the+Law+depicts%22|title=Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text|first=Brian|last=Britt|year=2004|page=28|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-567-38116-3}}</ref> * [[W. G. Hardy]]'s novel ''All the Trumpets Sounded'' (1942) tells a fictionalized life of Moses.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/07/26/archives/moses-reconstructed-all-the-trumpets-sounded-by-wg-hardy-501-pp-new.html|title=Moses Reconstructed; All the Trumpets Sounded. By W. G. Hardy |last=Cournos |first=John |date=July 26, 1942 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-12-22}}</ref> *[[Orson Scott Card]]'s novel ''[[Stone Tables]]'' (1997) is a novelization of the life of Moses.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Books By Orson Scott Card β Stone Tables|url=http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/stonetables.shtml|access-date=2021-03-23|website=Hatrack}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page