Acknowledgments

A heartfelt thank you to Jon Graham for championing our book so that we can bring our fascination with this ancient mystery to a wide audience. The stellar cast at Bear & Company: Jeanie Levitan, Manzanita Carpenter, Kelly Bowen, Patricia Rydle, and Jennie Marx, with her eagle-eyed editing, have made it a pleasure to move the manuscript through its many stages to publication.

This book would not have been possible without the forty years of research (undertaken in secret) by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). Freud, in turn, relied upon the insight of the German Egyptologist Ernst Sellin (1867–1946) that there were two men who took the name Moses: one legitimately by birth, the other by impersonation. In unraveling the various sources of the documentary hypothesis, we relied upon the works by Richard Elliott Friedman (1946–), Martin Noth (1902–1968), Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1844–1927), and Robert Henry Pfeiffer (1892–1958).