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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ancient statue of an Egyptian pharaoh -- commonly depicted in media as the tyrant Moses confronted ahead of the exodus -- was discovered in Egypt. The nation's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

(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 ...

REPUBLICA.CO.ID, JAKARTA— There is still a debate today over whether Pharaoh is one person and a name or just a title of king in Egypt. Pharaoh's name appears in the Quran 74 times in 27 different ...

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 ...