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Moses is Freud's last work, and his most controversial. He claims that the leader and lawgiver of the Jewish people was in fact born an Egyptian who was later murdered by savage Semites. He claims that Judaism was the result of guilt from that killing and that the crime was repeated in the case of Jesus Christ.Naturally, many were shocked that Freud would advance such offensive claims as he and his fellow Jews were being persecuted. The book was written as the Nazis came to power, eventually invading Austria, forcing Freud, his family, friends and colleagues to flee from Vienna. Many argued that this strange polemical book was the product of old age, neurotic panic, or Jewish self-hatred. Critics point to the highly peculiar construction, self-contradictions and twisted logic in the book. But the key to solving the mystery of Moses is understanding the textual clues he left behind. That is not so easy, he here explains, supposedly in reference to the Bible: The distortion of a text is like a murder. The difficulty lies not in perpetration of the deed but in elimination of the traces. Part of the problem till now was inexact English translation, which hid many traces. This new literal translation helps the reader perceive, as never before, Freud's hidden intent. Each sentence is referenced to the original German, so readers can easily compare the two. References are added to clues and allusions in the text. In short, we treat Moses as Holy Writ to solve his murder mystery. R.J. Koret is author of Heroic Fraud: How Sigmund Freud Got Away with Murder and Pious Freud: Return of the Repressed.

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