...god: "you sole god beside whom there is no other."26 There is only one possible conclusion to draw: "If Moses was an Egyptian and if he communicated his...the Jews, it must have been Akhenaten's, the Aten religion."27 By exercising common sense, Freud fortunately forgoes what he calls "the short way of...

..."Moses, His People and Monotheist Religion" (1939). 42. Freud writes, "If Moses was an Egyptian and communicated his own religion to the Jews, it must have been Akhenaten's, the Aten religion" (ibid, p. 24). Also: "The great religious idea for which the man Moses stood was, on our view, not...

...Egyptian. Freud was the first to connect Moses with Akhenaten and his founding of a monotheistic religion. "If Moses was an Egyptian, and if he communicated his own religion to the Jews, it was that of Akhenaten, the religion of Aten," wrote Freud in Moses and Monotheism (1939). According...

...of a universal god into monotheism." Freud also had no doubt about the link between Aten and Yahweh: "If Moses was an Egyptian and if he communicated his...it must have been Akhenaten's, the Aten religion." Jan Assmann (b. 1938) shares Freud's opinion. He believes that Atenism was "an authentic Egyptian monotheism,"...