Why at the Red Sea crossing was Moses told, 'What are you crying out to me?', and why, in this passage, was the prayer for Miriam answered only partly?

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 ...

The reading for Shabbat Chol HaMoed, the Sabbath of the intermediate days of Pesach (and Sukkot), describes one of the more exciting moments in Torah: the closest encounter any human has with God.

The Register’s film critic explores scriptural and religious issues raised by Ridley Scott’s new biblical film, starring Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton. Many retellings of the Exodus story focus on ...