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(a) German Edition:
1939 Der Mann Moses Und Die Monotheistische Religion: Drei Abhandlungen Amsterdam: Verlag Allert de Lange. Pp. 241.
1950 Der Mann Moses Und Die Monotheistische Religion: Drei Abhandlungen G.W., 16, 101-246.
(b) English Translation:
Moses and Monotheism 1939 London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. Pp. 223. New York: Knopf. Pp. viii + 218. (Tr. Kathcrine Jones.)
The present translation is by James Strachey.
The first two of the three essays that make up this work appeared originally in 1937 in Imago, 23 (1), 5-13 and (4), 387-419; English translations of these two appeared in Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 19 (3) (1938), 291-8, and 20 (1) (1939), 1-32. Section C of Part II of the third essay was read on the author's behalf by Anna Freud at the Paris International Psycho-Analytical Congress on August 2, 1938, and was afterwards published separately in Int. Z-PschoanaL Imago, 24 (1/2) (1939), 6-9, under the title ‘Der Fortschritt in der Geistigkeit’ (‘The Advance in Intellectuality’). The first essay and the first three sections of the second essay were included in Almanack 1938, 9-43. Only a very few unimportant changes were made in these earlier publications when they were included in the complete work. These changes are noted in the present edition.
It was apparently during the summer of 1934 that Freud completed his first draft of this book, with the title: The Man Moses, a Historical Novel (Jones, 1957, 206). In a long letter to Arnold Zweig of September 30, 1934 (included in Freud, 1960a, Letter 276), he gave an account of the book, as well
as of his reasons for not publishing it. These were much the same as those which he explains in the first of his prefatory notes to the third essay below (p. 54)—namely, on the one hand, doubts as to whether his argument was sufficiently well established and, on the other hand, fears of the reactions to its publication by the Roman Catholic hierarchy who were at that time dominan