Sitting around a table, reading from a book, asking questions, singing songs — for many Jewish families, Passover begins this ...

What made Moses the right person to lead the Exodus? Why did G-d choose him, and at what precise moment was his destiny ...

Even people who don’t celebrate Passover have been exposed to lessons from the Exodus (if only through Cecil B. DeMille’s ...

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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 ...

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, ...

We find in the character of Moses a man transformed by a face-to-face, unveiled encounter with the living God. Exodus ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Exodus 3–4 reveals God’s personal call to Moses, the mystery of the divine name, and the mission that will reshape salvation history. Domenichino, “Moses and the Burning Bush,” ca ...

This weekend my family and I will celebrate the Passover Seder in the traditional manner, as we do every year. The Seder (which literally means ‘order’—an orderly, ritualistic meal) celebrates the ...