Pharaoh’s downfall in the Red Sea (Exodus 14). Wood engraving, published in 1886. We are all familiar with the telling of the story. At the seder, after the youngest child recites the ma ...
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 ...
We can project that since Israel is the Exodus of our millennium, it will be at the center of the developing Jewish culture going forward. The Jewish origin story is the origin of our modern nation.
Beginning tonight, we celebrate our miraculous deliverance from the slavery of Egypt. Yet supposedly there is nothing in Egyptian records to support the Exodus. Absent any evidence that the story is ...
On the morning of Sunday, April 8, 2001, a man stood before a reported audience of 2,200 people and declared that the Exodus most likely never happened. Citing “virtually every modern archaeologist,” ...
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an article (by Joshua Berman) suggesting the biblical exodus might have its root in an historical event. This isn’t exactly new, but what interested me was ...
For anyone interested in the Bible, Richard Elliott Friedman’s new book is a game changer. Friedman makes a credible and convincing case for the historical truth of a story that has been widely ...
The Apostle Paul wrote that “the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom ...