The story of the exodus from Egypt describes the birth of the people of Israel under the leadership of Moses. Passover is an opportunity to examine some of the fundamental characteristics of ...

Moses was the original Jewish political activist and lobbyist. He organized his thoughts and priorities, then went to the top powers to demand action. What’s more, God made it clear the choice of ...

In his speech to Congress a few weeks ago, Bibi concluded with a quote from none other than Moses, the great leader of the Jews and hero of Passover. Indeed, many of his supporters might see him as a ...

Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a stone beam etched with the name of an Egyptian pharaoh, who many scholars believe is mentioned in the biblical story of Moses.

Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...

On tonight’s Mummies Unwrapped, Ramy Romany may just rewrite the ancient histories of both Christianity and Judaism. Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten may have been Moses, and the old testament biblical ...

In his book “Assimilation versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel,” Aaron Wildavsky examines Joseph’s career. Wildavsky, who had a distinguished ...

(RNS) — On Ashura, the promise of Paradise is divine assurance even when the world shows its vilest cruelty. No pharaoh, tyrant or terrorist can take any of those things away. (RNS) — The story of ...

Shocking as this past week’s storming of the Capitol by domestic terrorists may have been, it was not a surprise. There is a direct line between the actions and personalities of last Wednesday and ...

A cartoon showed Moses standing before the Egyptian pharaoh demanding that his people, the Israelites, be released from their slavery. Pharaoh says, “Oh, great — I spend years inculcating a ...