: Scholars now focus on the "return of the repressed"—the way this ancient guilt resurfaced as the high ethical standards of the prophets.
Recent readings suggest that instead of rejecting his heritage, Freud was using Moses to reconcile with his own Jewish roots. Historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi highlighted a Hebrew Bible gifted to Freud by his father, Jakob, as a "monumental" influence on the book. In this light, Moses and Monotheism is seen as a "self-analytic tour de force" where Freud explores his father's legacy during a time when his world was shattering. 2. The Mechanics of Collective Trauma New Perspectives on Freud’s Moses and Monotheism
: Freud argued that the Jews murdered the original Egyptian Moses, later repressing the memory. : Scholars now focus on the "return of
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