We begin with Moses’ pivotal moment. He sees that a slave master is beating a Hebrew. The Torah tells us that Moses “turned ...

One verse, five voices. Edited by Nina Litvak and Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist The Egyptians ruthlessly imposed ...

Shiphrah and Puah, two midwives in Egypt, were commanded by the tyrant Pharoah to kill all male Israelite babies. As Exodus’ ...

The most powerful Christian deity is divided into three primary forms: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. With so many forms, it's only natural that this Holy Trinity would bear so many ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on what the Exodus story can teach us in the face of another ...

Jewish and Christian leaders have prayed this “Priestly Blessing” over their congregations for centuries. However, this ...

Our Etz Hayim chumash translates Joseph’s question הַע֥וֹד אָבִ֖י חָ֑י as “Is my father still well?”, but a more literal ...

For many, this past week marked the start of a new year. That’s true for the Jewish community too, though let us create ...

In my recent book on early Israel I characterize ... Dever: The portrait of Israelite religion in the Hebrew Bible is the ideal, the ideal in the minds of those few who wrote the Bible—the ...

The first sentence raises many questions Ten of the eleven potions in the book of Exodus and many portions in other of the five books of Moses begin with the Hebrew letter vav ... could have just said ...