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Channeling Moses
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 ...
How does the choreography come about? Moses’ supporters make him comfortable. They place a rock underneath him [iv] and allow ...
In a new book, “Holiness and Society,” the Israeli scholar Ronen Shoval seeks to understand the philosophical implications of the phrase and its contemporary resonance.
What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...
The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its protagonist, is probably the most well-known of all stories in the ...
Biblical teaching generally pushes Christians to advocate for submission to authorities, whether in politics or in the church ...
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In Exodus, the ancient Israelites found life in the desert difficult; they querulously asked Moses, “Weren’t there enough graves in Egypt?” Entire books have been written about the ...
Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of stubby horns. Michelangelo wasn’t the first artist to depict the Hebrew ...
What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.
"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress," –Ronald Reagan ...