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Formerly, Freud had thought that Moses was perhaps not Hebrew, but rather Egyptian. Since then, advances in archaeological research have ratified this daring hypothesis. For the authors of this book, not only was Moses not Hebrew but Abraham was not. Both of them, moreover, were Pharaohs.

The Hebrews were never slaves of the Egyptians and the "chosen people" were simply the inhabitants (Egyptians) of the holy city of Akhet-Aton.

Messod and Roger Sabbah show that Genesis reproduces Egyptian cosmology, that the Hebrew alphabet derives from Egyptian hieroglyphs and that the historical characters of the Old Testament are in fact personalities of Egyptian history. In digging up the history of monotheism, the authors exhumed very romantic episodes: stories of love and adventures, of murders and betrayal, not free from fanaticism, that took place in the great kingdom of the Nile Valley. The Secrets of the Exodus suits us to a new reading of the Old Testament and to the discovery of true history, included within the biblical tradition.