Miriam and Aaron grumble against their brother Moses because he married “a Cushite woman.” My Bible says “Cushite” means she’s from Nubia or Ethiopia—African rather than Semitic.

Imagine a Bible With No Moses, No Story of the Exodus. April 14, 2022 “Flee From Egypt,” the Rev. Albert Lee Wagner, 1975. Credit... Courtesy of the American Visionary Art Museum.

For instance, in the passage where Miriam is punished with leprosy for challenging Moses (Num. 12:1–15), Davison wonders whether Miriam may have been speaking against Zipporah not because she was ...

Archaeologists have recently uncovered significant findings in Zanoah, a location mentioned in the Old Testament, shedding light on the ancient Bible story of Moses leading the Israelites to the ...

Avi Azulay as Moses holds the Ten Commandments in the Netflix series “Testament: The Story of Moses,”. (Courtesy Netflix via JTA.org) Jackie Hajdenberg. Nearly every Easter and Passover season since ...

Parodies of the Moses story also followed the death of the Bible-movie genre. Wholly Moses! (1980) was a lame attempt to copy the formula set by Monty Python's Life of Brian: it concerns a Hebrew ...

The story of Moses and the Israelites isn’t always lighthearted. What has it been like to transform this difficult content from the Bible into a comedy? As I’m writing, I have the Bible open.

Testament: The Story Of Moses is what Netflix calls a "docudrama", in other words, a documentary-scripted hybrid series that tells the story of Moses (Avi Azulay). Producers Emre Sahin and Kelly ...

“This is one of the better examples of this kind of Bible story brought to the big screen,” Harris told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “And I also think maybe it’s got enough that’s ...