Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses

Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It t

Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark—a distinction between one true God and many false gods—was once a

The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Fr