ABSTRACT
Freud’s description of biblical religion in Moses and Monotheism has become hegemonic in contemporary criticism. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz has recently well epitomized a major complex of thoughts in the text:
Freud sees a connection between the fatherhood of God, the prohibition on images, sexual renunciation, and the triumph of spirit over the senses. He understands the prohibition on images in terms of the gender of God, specifically God’s fatherhood, and he sees that prohibition as linked to masculine renunciation.
