The biblical text doesn’t identify the Pharaoh of the Exodus, no doubt because the text is a timeless story of the journey from slavery to freedom, and what is needed is a generic Pharaoh, not a ...

The narrative in this week’s parsha is rich and foundational for the formation of the Israelite nation. The Hebrews have become enslaved to a cruel and stubborn Pharaoh who puts them through numerous ...

As a professor of ancient history, one of the questions I often get when I teach the history of Pharonic Egypt is about the biblical story of the Exodus. Did this wonderful story of Moses and the ...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL clues paired with a study of Biblical chronology can identify the evil Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, a scripture expert has astonishingly claimed. The Bible's Book of Exodus describes ...

Most versions of the Passover story depict Pharaoh as an archetypal villain, an arrogant tyrant who gets his just deserts for challenging God and stubbornly refusing to let the Hebrew people leave ...

The Exodus from Egypt was a triumph of freedom—but it was also an agonizing process. As we see in our parsha this week, the Israelites knew they could no longer endure the tyranny and humiliation of ...

The right approach is to look for signs of Egyptian culture in the Torah, Bar Ilan Prof. Joshua Berman says. Over the past few weeks, millions of Jews gathering in synagogues all over the world have ...

I was privileged this week to plant a tree in the community of Maoz Esther (Stronghold of Esther) where Ahuvya Sandak, beloved of all of us, worked and built. I met many of the "hill-top youth" there, ...

The Jewish tradition loves serious play with words. This week’s Torah portion begins with God’s telling Moses, “Go to Pharaoh” (Exodus 10:1) to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. The problem is, ...