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105 InDex Aaron, 19–20, 21, 23, 37–38, 87 African culture, 11, 14, 51–52 Akhenaten, 47, 56–57, 84, 91, 99n1, 100n2 allegory, 1–2, 34 Amarna episode, 47, 57, 58, 100 Amram, 32, 84 ankh, 47, 56 anthropomorphism, 51, 57 Antin, Mary, 12 Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus), 31–33, 35 anti-semitism: abjection of Jews and, 82, 83; blood and barbarity associated with, 60; in europe, 53–54, 57, 59, 101n11; Freud and, 53–54, 57, 59; nazi Holocaust and, 58; roots of, 82, 96 Archive Fever (Derrida), 75 archives, and history, 75–76 Aristotle, 65 Assmann, Jan, 10, 46, 47, 52, 70 Aton, sun god, 47, 56, 100n2 Auerbach, erich, 64 Autobiographical Study (Freud), 64 Barthes, roland, 65–66 Bernal, Martin, 52 the Bible: allegory in, 34; circumcision as metaphor in, 21; defined, 5; God’s characteristics in, 35; God’s word and, 35; Hebrew, 35; history as analogy and, 52–53; inconsistencies in, 95; latin, 35; laws in, 20–22; literary style in, 35; mysteries in, 85; as “old testament,” 2, 67–68; Philippson, 71, 74. See also Books of Moses biblical Moses: as author of Books of Moses, 22, 37; birth and rescue of, 30–31, 75; circumcision and, 18, 21; egyptian overseer killed by, 31; God seeking to kill, or confront, 16–18; Golden Calf and, 7, 20–22, 28; as leader of Jews, 96; mother of, 31, 32, 84; polygamy and, 23–24; on shining face or rays emerging from head of Moses, 35, 56; speech impediment of, 19–21; story of, 16; the Tabernacle and, 16, 20–23, 28, 36–37; two cultures of, 96. See also the egyptian Moses birth and rescue of Moses, 30–34, 75, 80–81, 92 Black Athena Revisited (lefkowitz), 52 106 / Index Black Athena Writes Back (Bernal), 52 Black Folk Here and There (Drake), 51–52 blacks: abjection of, 78; Black Freemasonry and, 11, 13–14, 98n24; compact majority and, 77–78; in egypt, 77; folklore of, 55, 79–80, 81; Holocaust compared with slavery of, 78; Jews, and relations with, 57, 78–79; racial purity and, 78, 81; slavery of, 2–3, 39, 42–43, 78; in U.s., 14, 78 Books of Moses: authorship of, 22, 37; defined, 5; Judaism explained in, 5–6; laws in, 20–22, 25, 28; narrative moments in, 23; transference in, 28. See also the Bible Buber, Martin, 5–6, 85 burning bush, 5, 16, 87, 91, 92 The Case of Sigmund Freud (Gilman), 78 Catholicism, 13, 70. See also Christianity Césaire, Aimé, 78–79 “chosen people”: circumcision as sign of membership among, 18; defined, 2–4; the egyptian Moses and, 47, 57; family and, 9; Freud on, 9, 53; laws, and subordination of, 27–28; sibling rivalry and, 9 Christ, 4, 29–30, 61, 64 Christianity: the Bible foreshadowing story of, 2, 67–68, 95; birth and rescue of Moses in, 34; Christian critique of, 69–70; Christians’ enmity with Jews and, 63–64; circumcision and, 18, 19, 60–61; death and, 42, 64, 65; figurative reading of Moses story and, 1–2; freedom and, 95; Freemasonry and, 13; God’s characteristics in, 65; Hegelian Aufhebung and, 65, 69; idolatry in, 13, 67; Judaism and, 82, 87; “King of the Jews” and, 30, 33; monotheism and, 69; Moses and, x, 1–2, 25, 95, 96; new Testament and, 34, 36, 60–61; polytheistic, 4; resistance and, 65; superstition as the other of, 36; the Ten Commandments and, 25; unity concept in, 65, 68–69 circumcised spirit, 18, 19, 60–61 circumcision, 16–17, 18, 21, 60, 75–76 Circumfession (Derrida), 76 Civil rights movement, 77–78 Cohen, Joel, 9 Coleridge, s.T., 68 collective identity, 63, 74, 76 colonialism, 49, 78–79 compact majority, 64, 65, 75, 77, 78 counterreligion, 46, 47 Cultural Unity of Black Africa (Diop), 52 Dana, James, 12 Dante, 1–2 death: burning bush as metaphor for, 5; Christianity and, 42, 64, 65; of egyptian firstborn, 42, 89–90; of Israelite newborn males, 30–32 De Certeau, Michel, 70–71 Delany, Martin, 11, 52 de Man, Paul, 67 DeMille, Cecil B., 89–92 Derrida, Jacques, 66, 74, 75–76 difference: between and within identities, x–xi; identity and, ix; multiculturalism and, x–xi; racial difference transferred to sexual, 62, 75; separability and, ix; Diop, Cheik Anta, 52 disease, and association with Jews, 58–59, 82, 101n5 D’Oédipe a Moïse (robert), 61 Douglass, Frederick, 14 Drake, st. Clair, 51...
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