Moses and Monotheism Moses and Monotheism was the last book ever written by Sigmund Freud. In 1939, the year Sigmund Freud died in London, the book was published. London was where he settled with his family so they could escape Nazi harassment of Jews in Austria; this is the area where Freud felt confident. Sigmund Freud was Jewish and opposed anti-Semitism. Freud was refused promotions because of his religion. Freud's anti-Semitic generation of this period paid no interest to his ideas. Discrimination was out of control in the late 1920s, when Sigmund Freud wrote briefly about the way Jews were treated. He couldn't understand why, since Jesus was also Jewish. Freud's people had given the human race one of its best gifts, an idol like Jesus Christ. Sigmund Freud thought about it and began to wonder why Jews were so hated. Freud decided to examine the history and origin of his people and tried to get closer to the knowledge of Moses, the heroic Jewish leader who had led his people out of oppression in Egypt. Sigmund Freud's thoughts on these questions are what brought the book Moses and Monotheism to light. The first part of the book is entitled Moses an Egyptian. "To deny a people the man they praise as the greatest of their children is not an act to be undertaken lightly, especially by those who belong to that people" (Sigmund Freud, 1939, page 3). It was said that Moses was hidden in a basket and thrown into the Nile River to be saved from the murder of all the firstborn Hebrews, and was saved by an Egyptian princess and raised as her son. However, Moses is an Egyptian name and Freud wondered about this. He wondered if Moses was really an Egyptian, and I...... middle of paper ......told his beliefs from the priests who had dedicated their lives to the cult of the Aten. Freud also responded to precise historical conclusions that placed the origin of the Jewish religion in the cult of Jahve, a volcano god who was overwhelmed by a different Moses, of Midianite origin, hypothesizing the combination of two religions; The Aten's religion of truth and justice, which was momentarily supplanted by the more conquest-focused religion of Jahve. By learning about the history of the Jews, Freud redistributes the dualist system that was so significant to him; the union of two Moses with different origins in one nature, also of two new religions (faiths) in one monotheistic religion and of two different people in one nation. The third part is called Moses, his people and the monotheistic religion. This part of the book is the Introductory Notes written by Freud.