First American edition of the last lifetime publication of Freud, a study of the origins of monotheism in Judaism and Christiantity, where Freud took as his point of departure the theory that Moses was not an Israelite but an Egyptian, who imported the seeds of Judaism into Israel from Egypt. The book consists of three parts: ‘Parts I and II … were published in German in Imago in 1937; Part III [which occupies the greater part of the work as here found] has not previously appeared in print’ (Translator’s note).

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