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@Bthoth can you tell me some judaic belief system that's incorporated the ideology of Egypt into Torah, and how do you think this happened?
I read that Moses was murdered.
Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
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Freud’s scandalous claim about the murder of Moses was not the first attempt to uncover the violent end of the first Jewish leader. Freud, in fact, was extremely impressed with a similar claim by Ernst Sellin in his 1922 Mose und seine Bedeutung für die israelitisch-jüdische Religions geschichte. In this controversial work, the German theologian based his argument about the death of Moses in the desert on several ambiguous sentences in Hosea. Freud, however, aimed at much more than a project of biblical exegesis. Moses and Monotheism was a study of the violent origins of religion in general. Building on his work on the first totem religion, Freud assumed that the Israelites, like the brothers in the primal tribe, repented for the murder of Moses and were crushed by their own guilt. Their struggle with their guilt was, however, different from that of the murderous brothers. The brothers in Totem and Taboo went on to replace their dead father with the totem animal and thus created the first religion in history. The Israelites found solace in the image of another, second Moses, a priest of the pagan god Yahweh in Kadesh. This second Moses and his “volcano God, . . . an uncanny, bloodthirsty demon,”9 allowed the Israelites to enjoy a religious sensuality whose renunciation the Egyptian Moses and his abstract God had demanded.
