Endnotes
CHAPTER 1. AN UNLAID GHOST
1. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 637.
2. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 621.
3. Bernstein, Freud and the Legacy of Moses, 37.
4. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 37.
5. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 69.
6. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 626.
7. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 628.
8. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 629.
9. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 103.
10. Bernstein, Freud and the Legacy of Moses, 17.
11. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 637.
12. Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, 315.
13. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 3.
14. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 5–6.
15. Exodus 2:8.
16. Speiser, “The Legend of Sargon,” 119.
17. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 35.
18. Hosea 12:13.
19. Feiler, America’s Prophet, 21.
20. Feiler, America’s Prophet, 4.
21. Leviticus 25:10.
22. Trachtenberg, The Statue of Liberty, 2.
23. Feiler, America’s Prophet, 35–36.
24. Feiler, America’s Prophet, 106.
25. Feiler, America’s Prophet, 170.
26. Research conducted by Charles Stewart, as cited in Feiler, America’s Prophet,171.
27. King, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”
28. Feiler, America’s Prophet, 6.
29. Hoffman, The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare, 66–67.
30. Goethe, “Israel in the Desert.”
31. For an example, see Gardner and Anderson, Criminal Evidence, 71.
32. Dozeman, “Masking Moses,” 29.
33. Nunley and McCarthy, Masks, 15.
34. Exodus 3:6.
35. Exodus 33:20.
36. Exodus 34:29–33.
37. Exodus 34:30.
CHAPTER 2. PRIME SUSPECT
1. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 238.
2. Exodus 21:24.
3. Genesis 25:27–34.
4. Genesis 27:1–5.
5. Genesis 27:6–13.
6. Genesis 27:19–23.
7. Genesis 27:41.
8. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 106, 253.
9. Genesis 20:29.
10. Genesis 29:25.
11. Genesis 29:26.
12. Genesis 31:32.
13. Genesis 31:35.
14. Auerbach, Moses, 140.
15. Genesis 32:11.
16. Genesis 32:24–29.
17. Hosea 12:5.
18. Friedman, The Hidden Face of God, 214.
19. Friedman, The Hidden Face of God, 10.
20. Friedman, The Hidden Face of God, 37.
21. Genesis 32:30.
22. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, 230.
CHAPTER 3. BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER
1. For an in-depth study of Egyptian magicians please see Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt.
2. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 112.
3. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 47.
4. Foucart, “Divination (Egypt),” 793.
5. Foucart, “Divination (Egypt),” 793.
6. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 76.
7. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 56. Geraldine Pinch writes, “Very little is known about whether priestesses participated in ritual magic in temples.”
8. Hoffmeiler, Israel in Egypt, 142.
9. Hoffmeiler, Israel in Egypt, 142.
10. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 18.
11. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 150.
12. Erman, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, 38–40.
CHAPTER 4. DECEIT AND DISGUISE
1. Genesis 34:3.
2. Genesis 34:2.
3. Genesis 34:5.
4. Genesis 34:7.
5. Genesis 34:15.
6. Genesis 34:13.
7. Genesis 34:15.
8. Genesis 34:25–26.
9. Genesis 34:30.
10. Genesis 34:31.
11. See for example, Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 145.
12. Genesis 37:3.
13. Genesis 37:4.
14. Genesis 37:5.
15. Genesis 37:8.
16. Genesis 37:9.
17. Genesis 37:15.
18. Genesis 37:18.
19. Genesis 37:20.
20. Genesis 37:21–22.
21. Genesis 42:21.
22. Genesis 37:28.
23. Genesis 37:30.
24. Genesis 37:32.
25. Genesis 37:33.
26. Genesis 37:35.
27. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:39–41.
28. Orne, “Hypnosis,” 350.
29. Maldonado, “Hypnosis in Psychosomatic Medicine,” 266.
30. American Psychiatric Association, “Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”
31. Genesis 39:6.
32. Genesis 39:7–8.
33. Genesis 39:19.
34. Genesis 40:14.
35. Genesis 42:2.
36. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 55.
37. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 55.
38. Genesis 42:4.
39. Genesis 42:7.
40. Genesis 42:6.
41. Genesis 42:22.
42. Genesis 42:24.
43. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:10.
44. Genesis 42:36.
45. Genesis 42:37.
46. Genesis 42:38.
47. Genesis 43:10.
48. Genesis 43:8–9.
49. Genesis 43:23.
50. Genesis 43:32–34.
51. Genesis 44:9.
52. Genesis 44:15.
53. Genesis 44:16.
54. Genesis 44:34.
55. Genesis 45:3.
56. Mussies, “The Interpretation of Serapis,” 189–214.
57. Justinus, in Duncker, The History of Antiquity, 461.
58. Justinus, in Cory, Ancient Fragments, 80–81.
59. Justinus, in Duncker, The History of Antiquity, 461.
60. Josephus, Against Apion, 1.33, in Josephus: The Complete Works.
61. Josephus, 1.26, in Josephus: The Complete Works. Quote is attributed to Manetho.
62. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 35.
63. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 36.
64. Exodus 1:8.
65. Josephus, Against Apion, 1.26, in Josephus: The Complete Works. Quote is attributed to Manetho.
66. Josephus, 1.27, in Josephus: The Complete Works. Quote is attributed to Manetho.
67. Josephus, 1.27, in Josephus: The Complete Works. Quote is attributed to Manetho.
CHAPTER 5. THE WIDOW’S SON
1. Genesis 45:28.
2. Genesis 48:6.
3. “Goddess Cosmologies,” from the series “Deasophy,” on the Suppressed History website.
4. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 14.
5. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 35.
6. Genesis 49:3–4.
7. Genesis 35:22.
8. Genesis 49:5–7.
9. Genesis 48:5.
10. Genesis 50:1.
11. Genesis 50:5.
12. Genesis 50:6.
13. Genesis 50:25.
14. Genesis 50:26.
15. Exodus 13:19.
16. Van Seters, Abraham in History and Tradition, Part Two.
17. Exodus 1:6.
18. Deuteronomy 33:6.
19. Genesis 49:6.
20. Deuteronomy 33:9.
21. Deuteronomy 33:8.
22. Exodus 29:30.
23. Exodus 17:3.
24. Exodus 17:7.
25. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 122.
26. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 145.
27. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, 206.
28. Genesis 49:6.
29. Genesis 41:45.
30. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 328.
31. Jonas, Vengeance, 366.
32. Exodus 15:20.
33. Exodus 15:20.
34. Numbers 12:1.
35. Numbers 12:15.
36. Auerbach, Moses, 64.
37. Genesis 50:15.
38. Fox, Iranian Cinema.
39. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:149.
40. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:150.
41. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:150.
42. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:151.
43. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:153.
CHAPTER 6. A FAMILY DIVIDED
1. Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 2.10, in Whiston, The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian.
2. Rapport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:244–45.
3. Kirsch, Moses: A Life, 90.
4. Finkelstein and Silberman, The Bible Unearthed, 118.
5. Exodus 1:8.
6. Judges 1:16.
7. Budde, Religion of Israel to the Exile, 21.
8. Rice, “Africans and the Origin of the Worship of Yahweh,” 4.
9. Exodus 18:12.
10. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:254–56.
11. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:256.
12. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:256.
13. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:256.
14. The Koran, Hud 11:91.
CHAPTER 7. PSYCHIC DYNAMITE
1. Exodus 4:24–26.
2. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, 184.
3. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 49–50.
4. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:275.
5. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 1.18.8 in Whiston, The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian.
6. Genesis 16:5.
7. Genesis 16:1–11.
8. Genesis 21:9–10.
9. Ide, Moses, 92.
10. Genesis 17:11–12.
11. Exodus 2:11–15.
12. Auerbach, Moses, 19.
13. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 36.
14. Exodus 1:8.
15. Exodus 2:15–21.
16. Exodus 2:15–21.
17. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 162.
18. Kirsch, Moses: A Life, 8–9.
19. Craigie, Ugarit and the Old Testament, 72.
20. Bryan, Religious Aspects of Hypnosis, 31.
21. Ide, Moses, 29–30.
22. Churchill, “Moses,” 287.
23. Kirsch, Moses: A Life, 101.
24. Exodus 3:1.
25. Exodus 3:2–6.
26. Exodus 3:13–14.
27. Exodus 4:14.
28. Exodus 3:1.
29. Genesis 50:26.
30. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:186.
31. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 1:351.
32. Exodus 4:18–19.
CHAPTER 8. INTO THE WILDERNESS
1. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:276.
2. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:277.
3. Assmann, Moses the Egyptian, 3.
4. Wilson, The Exodus Enigma, 121.
5. Exodus 10:21–22.
6. Exodus 9:6.
7. Exodus 9:23.
8. Exodus 9:9.
9. Exodus 7:20.
10. Exodus 8:21.
11. Exodus 8:6.
12. Phillips, Act of God, 233.
13. Phillips, Act of God, 233.
14. Phillips, Act of God, 233–34.
15. The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, 392.
16. The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, 547.
17. Douglas, In the Wilderness, 32.
18. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 108.
19. Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus, 174.
20. Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus, 180.
21. Exodus 14:21.
22. Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus, 247.
23. Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus, 247.
24. Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus, 252.
25. Exodus 15:24.
26. Exodus 15:27.
27. Exodus 16:2.
28. Exodus 16:12.
29. Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus, 85.
30. Exodus 17:3.
31. Exodus 17:4.
32. Exodus 17:6.
33. Phillips, The Moses Legacy, 200.
34. Numbers 11.
35. Auerbach, Moses, 85.
36. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 156.
37. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, 167.
38. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic,169.
39. Finkelstein, The Bible Unearthed, 62–63.
40. Burckhardt, Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, 421.
41. Burckhardt, Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, 422–23.
42. Burckhardt, Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, 424.
43. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 3.
44. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 133.
45. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 116–18.
46. Exodus 20:26.
47. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 45.
48. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 43–44.
49. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 110.
50. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 168.
51. Phillips, The Moses Legacy, 190.
52. Phillips, The Moses Legacy, 214.
53. Exodus 19:12.
CHAPTER 9. THE MASKED MOSES
1. Connor, Dumbstruck, 24.
2. Connor, Dumbstruck, 23.
3. Robinson, The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, 43–44.
4. Exodus 20:6.
5. Aldred, Akhenaten, 240.
6. Exodus 20:6.
7. Aldred, Akhenaten, 245.
8. Genesis 49:27.
9. Deuteronomy 33:12.
10. Exodus 33:8–11.
11. Numbers 20:18.
12. Exodus 18:5–7.
13. Exodus 18:12.
14. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 148.
15. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 149–50.
16. Auerbach, Moses, 89.
17. Exodus 18:13–18.
18. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, 230.
19. Exodus 18:19–20.
20. Exodus 18:21–22.
21. Exodus 18:23.
22. Exodus 18:24–26.
23. Exodus 18:27.
24. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 3.2.4.
25. Exodus 24:1–2.
26. Exodus 24:12–15.
27. Exodus 24:24.
28. Exodus 32:1–6.
29. Exodus 17:8.
30. Exodus 32:17.
31. Exodus 17:9–10.
32. Exodus 17:11–13.
33. Noth, A History of Pentateuchal Traditions, 166.
34. Exodus 15:20–21.
35. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, 112–44.
36. Exodus 34:29–33.
37. Exodus 32:19–20.
38. Exodus 32:19–20.
39. Exodus 32:21–24.
40. Exodus 32:4.
41. Deuteronomy 9:20.
42. Noth, Exodus: A Commentary, 244.
43. Auerbach, Moses, 95.
44. Exodus 32:26–28.
45. Exodus 18:24–25.
CHAPTER 10. SKULL AND BONES
1. Finnestad, Image of the World, 88, 93.
2. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 238.
3. Exodus 25:10.
4. Rux, Architects of the Underworld, 279.
5. Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, 278.
6. Mark 6:18.
7. Mark 4:12.
8. Mark 6:22–23.
9. Mark 6:25.
10. Mark 6:25.
11. Mark 6:26–28.
12. Mark 6:16.
13. Laidler, The Head of God, 52.
14. Laidler, The Head of God, 52.
15. Laidler, The Head of God, 71.
16. Laidler, The Head of God, 60.
17. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:301.
18. Exodus 25:11–14.
19. Numbers 7:89.
20. Numbers 10:35.
21. Deuteronomy 10:8.
22. Deuteronomy 9:21.
23. Psalms 104:15.
24. Exodus 40:20–32.
25. See Exodus 26:33 for the sacred tent, and II Chronicles 5:7 for the temple.
26. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 3.7.4.
27. Leviticus 10:1–2.
28. Leviticus 10:6–7.
29. Pinch, Magic in Ancient Egypt, 24.
30. Auerbach, Moses, 139, on calling Moses’s veil a “mask.”
31. Joshua 6.
32. I Samuel 4:5.
33. I Samuel 4:11.
34. I Samuel 5:2.
35. I Samuel 5:2.
36. Josephus. The Antiquity of the Jews, 6.1n.
37. As cited in Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key, 37.
38. Laidler, The Head of God, 178.
39. Laidler, The Head of God, 179.
40. Laidler, The Head of God, 180–81.
41. See Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key.
CHAPTER 11. THE SPY AND THE LEPER
1. Auerbach, Moses, 98.
2. Noth, Numbers: A Commentary, 125.
3. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 4.2.4.
4. Numbers 16:1–3.
5. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:319–20.
6. Numbers 16:12–15.
7. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 35n.
8. Numbers 16:21.
9. Numbers 16:28–30.
10. Numbers 16:31–34.
11. Rappoport, Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, 2:323.
12. Numbers 12:1.
13. Boyd’s Bible Dictionary, 196.
14. Numbers 12:2.
15. Numbers 12:4–10.
16. Numbers 12:11–15.
17. Noth, Numbers: A Commentary, 97.
18. Noth, Numbers: A Commentary, 97.
19. Auerbach, Moses, 95.
20. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, 468.
21. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, 468–69.
22. Numbers 12:12.
23. Numbers 20:1.
24. Noth, Numbers: A Commentary, 93.
25. Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, 465.
26. Noth, A History of Pentateuchal Traditions, 127.
27. Noth, Numbers: A Commentary, 94.
28. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, 204.
29. Exodus 18:2.
CHAPTER 12. BALAAM AND THE WAR AGAINST THE MIDIANITES
1. Numbers 20:1.
2. Numbers 20:17–21.
3. Noth, Numbers: A Commentary, 150.
4. Numbers 13:17–26.
5. Numbers 13:25.
6. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 4.4.7.
7. Phillips, The Moses Legacy, 201.
8. Noth, A History of Pentateuchal Traditions, 178.
9. Numbers 20:23–29.
10. Numbers 22:6.
11. Numbers 22:13–14.
12. Numbers 22:21–25.
13. As first discovered by Connor, Dumbstruck, 146.
14. Numbers 22:26–28.
15. Numbers 22:29–31.
16. Numbers 22:32–35.
17. Numbers 24:4.
18. Numbers 24:10.
19. Numbers 25:1–5.
20. Numbers 25:7–8.
21. Numbers 25:12–13.
22. Numbers 31:7–8.
23. Numbers 31:17.
24. Numbers 31:18.
25. Deuteronomy 34:4–6.
26. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 4.8.48.
CHAPTER 13. THE DEADLY SECRET
1. Powelson and Reigert, The Lost Gospel Q, 79.
2. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 174.
3. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 42.
4. John 6:46.
5. See for example, Green, Jesus and Moses.
6. Smith, Jesus the Magician, 64.
7. Smith, Jesus the Magician, 69.
8. Mark 2:7.
9. Matthew 17:2–9.
10. Powelson and Reigert, The Lost Gospel Q, 79.
11. Matthew 21:2.
12. Matthew 21:4.
13. Zechariah 9:9.
14. John 12:13; Matthew 21:8.
15. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 14:15.2.
16. Luke 13:32.
17. Josephus, The War of the Jews, 1:14:4, in Whiston, The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian.
18. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:4:1.
19. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:4:2.
20. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:5:1.
21. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:5:6.
22. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:5:6.
23. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:11:2.
24. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:11:1.
25. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 15:10:4.
26. Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, 17:11:4.
27. Gospel of Peter.
28. Bruce, “Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Petraea,” 14.
29. Luke 13:31.
30. Luke 13:33.
31. Sadducees & Pharisees, from the Jewish Virtual Library website.
32. Sadducees & Pharisees, from the Jewish Virtual Library website.
33. Epstein, Judaism, 107.
34. Smith, Jesus the Magician, 30.
35. Smith, Jesus the Magician, 157.
36. John 12:10.
37. Origen, The Arguments of Celsus, 5.
38. Origen The Arguments of Celsus, 7.
39. Matthew 23:2.
40. Matthew 23:29–31.
41. BBC, “The Passion.”
42. Luke 22:52–53.
43. Matthew 12.
44. Matthew 12:14.
45. Smith, Jesus the Magician, 47.
46. Matthew 12:24.
47. Matthew 15:3–4.
48. Matthew 26:59.
49. Matthew 26:61.
50. Matthew 26:63; Mark 14:61.
51. Leviticus 10:6.
52. Matthew 26:65–66.
53. Matthew 27:1.
54. Luke 23:4.
55. Matthew 27:24.
56. John 19:7.
57. See Schonfield, The Passover Plot.
58. Schonfield, The Passover Plot, 99.
59. Schonfield, The Passover Plot, 65.
60. Mark 16:5.
61. Mark 16:6–7.
62. Schonfield, The Passover Plot, 16–17.
63. John 19:27.
64. John 19:38.
EPILOGUE: THE SECRET RELIGION
1. Exodus 15:21.
APPENDIX 1: COMING UPON THE STORY
1. Exodus 30:25.
APPENDIX 2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Genesis 36:31.
2. Carpenter, The Composition of the Hexateuch, 41.
3. Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?, 21, quoting Benedict Spinoza.
4. Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?, 102.
5. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 22.
6. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 35.
7. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 34.
8. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 36.
9. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 37.