Anyone who even has little to no knowledge of the bible has more than likely heard the name Moses. For people who follow the Bible closely, Moses is most certainly a man of importance to them and their faith. If you would ask these people was Moses and Egyptian or a Jew, they would say he was a Jew. Throughout this essay Freud makes many claims that would hint at Moses being an Egyptian and not a Jew. A few claims that Freud makes towards Moses being an Egyptian are the origin of his name, the myths of heroic people and the reality of what type of family Moses came from. For such an important man and so little information on him, Freud’s investigation of Moses, might make one question Moses and his background.
A very important part of understand where a person originates can be what their name is. For the case of Moses, the story of his name is present in Exodus Chapter ii, where we learn the story of the Egyptian princess drawing the baby from the Nile and naming him Moses. The princess adds the etymological explanation, because I drew him out of the water giving us the biblical meaning “He that was draw out of the
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Otto Rank wrote a book that deals with this idea, the hero is often the son of a king and a situation occurs where the baby must be subject to be sent away by the waves. The child is then saved by someone who of a lower class than his birth parents, through the years the young child discovers his noble background. The child then seeks vengeance against his father and is honored by his people. Freud find it strange how Moses is a child of a low class Jewish family and when sent by waves finds his way to a noble family. Freud believes that the birth myth of Moses must have originated from the Jewish people because the Egyptians have no reason to honor Moses, he wasn’t a hero to them. Moses remains a Jew and nothing has been done to raise his