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Avi Azulay as Moses holds the Ten Commandments in the Netflix series “Testament: The Story of Moses,”. (Courtesy Netflix via JTA.org) Jackie Hajdenberg. Nearly every Easter and Passover season since ...
Exodus 2 relates the birth of Moses and amazing story of how the baby Moses was placed in the river to escape death, rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in the Pharaoh’s palace.
Ancient propaganda supporting Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II has been found on a 3,300-year-old obelisk in Paris, as revealed by Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier.
'Testament: The Story of Moses,' a three-part series on Netflix, blends scripted recreations with talking-head interviews to recap the Old Testament.
This week’s parasha could be entitled “The Birth of a Leader.” We see Moses, adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, growing up as a prince of Egypt. We see him as a young man, for the first time ...
The main characters, Moses, God and even Pharaoh, seem to generate male energy as the main focus of the story. But deeper look reveals that women are truly the heroes of the story.
In Islam, Pharaoh (Firaun) is regarded as one of the most evil and hated figures in history. Even centuries after his death, his story continues to serve as a warning of arrogance and tyranny.
The pharaoh relents after the 10th plague only to change his mind. An obstacle turns into a miracle at the Red Sea as Moses leads the Hebrews to freedom.
In contrast to Moses’ humility, the villain of the tale, Egypt’s Pharaoh is described by every history book on ancient Egyptian civilization as having been preoccupied with achieving ...
Ridley Scott’s 2014 epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” featured an all-star cast, including Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Pharaoh and Ben Kingsley as Nun, one of Moses’ assistants ...