Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:26:41 -0500
From: Eric Yost <103423.421-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: PLC: the Christ


Howard writes that  he does "regard it as a truth or an established fact
that Christians
see consciousness of Christ in the OT while Jewish and Pagan scholars do
not (or why would they remain Jewish and Pagan?)."

How about the thesis advanced in Freud's MOSES AND MONOTHEISM?  He
postulates the existence of two Moses, repressed guilt at the murder of the
first Moses, and the return of the repressed in the Crucifixion of Christ. 
Writing in '37, Freud then sees anti-Semitism as reconfigured rage over the
murder of Christ.

Thus Freud seems to arrive at a very Biblical sense of "sins" acting over
history in a cycle of repression and release. 
Of course, it's all a floating ocean of premises just like Totem and Taboo,
but I wonder if anyone is familiar with the work and any scholarly
criticism that's been applied to it.

Eric Yost

PS: Thanks to HH for setting me straight on my Nicean Creed blunder.


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