COMMENTARY: Far from arbitrary punishments, the plagues of Egypt are presented in Exodus as divine signs meant to call ...
The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in ...
The festival of Passover starts Saturday. Jews throughout the world will commemorate the exodus from Egypt and the birth of a covenantal people. Passover's narrative, culminating in the formation of ...
God aimed the first of ten plagues against the Egyptian gods, the river Nile and idols that were made of wood and stone, and aimed the second against Pharaoh, whom Ezekiel called a crocodile, fierce ...
(RNS) — It never fails to happen. At every Seder that I have led or attended for the past several decades, when we get to the Ten Plagues, someone offers his or her own list of modern plagues. It ...
I was just about to pass over Passover. My husband Paul and I had been invited to two seders in Los Angeles, but one was a rock and the other was a hard place. At the former, there would be three ...