Both Christian and Jewish people regard Moses’ parting the Red Sea as one of the most impressive miracles of God — or is it?

The tale of Moses parting the Red Sea, or 'Yam Suph' in Hebrew, stands as one of the most iconic stories from the Old Testament. It narrates how the prophet Moses guided the Israelites from bondage ...

Did God rob Pharaoh of his free will in the Exodus story? Or, counterintuitively, did God simply strengthen it?

Moses takes leave of Jethro and Midian and, accompanied by Aaron, makes his way to Egypt, where he first legitimates himself by the signs God has entrusted to him with the Hebrews. He then makes his ...

Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...