Even people who know little about the Bible likely can recount the story of Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt in an extraordinary exodus. In this interview, Carol Meyers, an archeologist and ...

Welcome to Religions of the World. Judaism: The Religion of Jewish people. Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world. It began about 4,000 years ago in the Middle East. One of the most ...

This 1930s silent film dramatizes key stories from the Bible with intertitles guiding the narrative. It opens with Moses delivering the Ten Commandments amidst the Israelites’ rebellion ...

I studied at Barnard College/Columbia University (New York), Oxford and Cambridge (as a Gates Scholar). Before joining History at Sheffield in September 2011, I was a lecturer at Pembroke and ...

Adar 7, 2368 (1393 BCE): Moses was born (Sotah 12b) in Egypt when that Pharaoh required all newborn Jewish baby boys to be drowned. His mother hid him in a reed basket, placing it in the Nile River.

Moses Wright's testimony in the trial of his great-nephew's accused killers would go down in history as one of the bravest moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Moses and his wife Elizabeth lived ...