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

Each of us faces fears, obstacles, and challenges. We encounter people and circumstances, inside and outside, which scare us ...

Moses never veers from this line. Contrary to popular belief, he never tells Pharaoh, “let my people go,” full stop, but ...

A children's song about a Pharaoh in pajamas tells more about Jewish history than one might think at first glance.

Pharaoh’s Refusal ...

–Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and unable to speak from childhood, became one of the most inspiring writers, activists, and ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish perspective on the choosing of Moses and the women who ...

We can read these different versions as the Egyptians, perhaps out of admiration, guilt, fear, or recognition of injustice, freely giving to their neighbors. A situation where Moses is “esteemed.” ...

What if the stories of Moses and Joseph weren’t just biblical — but historical? Some researchers believe Egyptian records, ...

Misha Shulman has been working on his play Pharaoh, about the villain from Exodus, for over a decade. When he speaks with people about it he gets a curious response. “Most people, I tell them, ‘Well ...

In his book “Assimilation versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel,” Aaron Wildavsky examines Joseph’s career. Wildavsky, who had a distinguished ...