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1. Freud, S. Moses—An Egyptian. Moses, the liberator of the Jews, the lawgiver, the founder of a religion, lived at such a remote age, Freud writes, that it is difficult to determine definitely whether he was a historical personage or a mythical creation, although the majority of historians regard his as a real personage. Philological evidence seems to show that the name, Moses, is of Egyptian origin and this suggests the possibility that Moses himself was an Egyptian—a view which would explain the derivation of the peculiar laws and religion he gave the Jewish people. The history of Moses does not conform to the “typical myth” on this theme, as analyzed by Rank, who found that the hero is usually son of an exalted family, rescued and reared by a family of lower origin. In this form the hero, by conquering his misfortunes attains his high and heroic destiny. The saga of Moses is just the opposite. Here the family of origin is lowly enough. The second family into which he was received is the Royal House of Egypt. This deviation from the usual type of the myth has seemed so strange as to lead some writers to assume that originally the myth of Moses had another form. If Moses is a historical personage, the saga is probably a mixture of