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In an easy, argumentative style the author adds another to his nineteen previous volumes, at least one of which was reviewed in this QUARTERLY (Vol. XI, No. 1, 1942). His range of subjects includes Freud and swing music, but most of them reflect the author's concern over prewar fascism. Originally published in newspapers and magazines, the articles are typically brief and full of newly coined words with clang associations.
The article on Freud's Moses and Monotheism is lengthy and earnest. The Jews may well have had 'an earlier tradition' of monotheism all their own; and even if it was a foreign import, says Roback, then they deserve credit anyway for having accepted it.
The author's attempt to instruct Freud in Jewish lore is unnecessary, since Freud is obviously learned in the comparative cosmogony and theogony of the ancient East and is not writing as a historian. On the contrary, Freud often omits confirmatory evidence which is known to him, such as Manetho's account in Josephus,1 and goes about his stated business of analyzing If Moses Was An Egyptian.