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 ...

By contrast, in the Coen brothers’ bluegrass-fueled jailbreak comedy adaptation of The Odyssey, the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the psychotic, one-eyed, loquacious Bible salesman Big ...

The victory of Joshua, leading the battle against Amalek below, is somehow tied directly to whether Moses manages to keep the staff raised in the air.

Indeed, Amalek often gets jumbled with the names of other nations, as when Moses recounts the failed first attempt by the Israelites to invade the Holy Land and oddly rehashes their Amalekite foes ...

The Dangerous History Behind Netanyahu’s Amalek Rhetoric His recent biblical reference has long been used by the Israeli far right to justify killing Palestinians.

Amalek in the Bible is a figure and the name of a group of people described as descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother. The Amalekites, the people of Amalek, are often depicted as Israel's persistent ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an au… ...

“Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, ‘Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.’ ...

The Hebrew Bible repeatedly has God ordering genocides, as of the Amalekites; and the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains contradictions with no neat unifying message.

The bible of the modern American city: Why “The Power Broker” is still one of our most important books After 40 years, this magisterial biography of Robert Moses remains an essential primer on ...

The Exodus passage describes a battle between Israel and Amalek, when Moses ascends a mountain and raises his arms in prayer.