As it happens, this is a weekend when we honor the spiritual legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King — and our Shabbat Torah reading is about Moses and the burning bush.

The burning bush is a more direct and personal intervention into Moses’s life, and one that will change him and the Israelites forever.

The Old Testament, however, did show up in some works, as in this study for Moses and the Burning Bush. In this painting an angel of God, in the form of a burning bush, calls on Moses to lead the ...

This is Italian artist Domenico “Domenichino” Zampieri’s depiction of Moses talking to God in the Burning Bush and being assigned to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Zampieri ...

Psychedelic cocktail may explain burning bush and Ten Commandments. JERUSALEM, March 5, 2008 — -- Moses and the Israelites were on drugs, says Benny Shanon, an Israeli professor of cognitive ...

But new research from Israel suggests that Moses's divinely-inspired visions, from the burning bush to the smoke and trumpet-blasts that shook Mount Sinai, were not so much holy as hallucinogenic.

According to the text, Moses was wandering through the wilderness with his sheep, minding his own business, when he noticed a nearby bush that was burning yet not consumed.