Freud’s Last Heresy: Was Moses an Egyptian - and Was He Murdered?
History remembers Moses as lawgiver, liberator, and prophet—but what if the story begins with a lie and ends with a murder? In the shadow of Nazi terror, as his own life and family hung in the balance, Sigmund Freud became obsessed with a dangerous question that threatened religion, identity, and tradition itself: Who was Moses, really—and who killed him? This article traces Freud’s final, controversial inquiry and follows the unsettling trail it left behind, where Egyptian origins, suppressed myths, and a possible impostor converge to challenge one of humanity’s most enduring sacred narratives.
