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A Biblical Novena to St. Moses The memorial of St. Moses is Sept. 4. This great Old Testament saint offers plenty to ponder, contemplate, and study within the pages of scripture.
According to the Bible, Moses was 120 years old when he died within sight of the promised land. Novelist Herman Wouk is a mere 97. For decades, he has struggled with what he calls "a ghost of an ...
In the U.S. Supreme Court building (designed by Minnesota native Cass Gilbert, by the way), there's an image of Moses holding the Ten Commandments. I've heard that fact, over the years, but never ...
Other than Jesus, “there is no personality which stands out so prominently as that of Moses, the liberator and lawgiver of his race,” Film Index declared in 1909, giving a thumbs-up to the ...
The Getty Center's upcoming exhibition "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming ...
When most of us visualize Moses, we think of Charlton Heston from “The Ten Commandments” or maybe Burt Lancaster from TV’s “Moses the Lawgiver”a tall, handsome, athlet… ...
The Lawgiver MOSES (505 pp.)—Sholem Asch—Putnam ($3.75).As a boy in Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: "Why has God divided mankind into Jew and ...
Moses provides us with a good synthesis of your work: You are asked to protect, by means of the law, the image and likeness fashioned by God on every human face,” said Francis. Benjamin ...