the first chapter of Bernstein’s book Freud and the Legacy of Moses (Cambridge University Press), which is helping to introduce me to Freud’s last published work, highly controversial at the time, that he nonetheless brought into publishing (including a Hebrew translation) at a time where the Jews were in a turbulent and precarious position. The book nonetheless is not a very flattering portrait of the Jews but a highly critical one. he strangely re-writes the story of Moses, somewhat claiming to base this new story on fact, but inevitably it comes to re-present his own theory of the family romance, oedipal revolt, guilt/indebtedness, and the archetypal myths of the “hero” (as proposed by Otto Rank), and therefore completely revises the bible; so that Moses is of Egyptian noble birth, and is killed by the Jews, who then cover over this shame.