Chapter Two of the biblical Book of Exodus compresses into a mere five paragraphs the extraordinary story of Moses the Israelite boy born into a slave family who becomes the prince of Egypt and then a ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...

Yitro, this week’s Torah portion, has a lot to say about qualifications for public officials — namely, trustworthiness and ...

Most versions of the story of Moses agree that he was not forgiving to those who abandoned God to worship an idol, and according to the Book of Exodus, about 3,000 people were killed for this crime.

The Book of Exodus begins with an arresting Prologue. Like all classics, it begins much before the beginning. Kunjootty’s Valiyammachi, grandmother, is telling her grandchild the story of a fire ...

In an age riven by ethnic and religious conflict, the message of the Torah rings true in our time. To be free, you have to ...

Remember: in the Book of Revelation ... shielding his face from Moses but allowing him to see his back (Exodus 33:12–23).

[Exodus 2:11] Moses was probably the first Jew raised in ... oppression of Jews required their collaboration. History books term the end of the 18th Century as the age of Jewish emancipation.