In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

The name Moses is a play on a Hebrew word that means “to be drawn out of” — in his case, the waters of the Nile. Moses was rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter when he was found floating in a basket on the ...

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 ...