Numbers 31 described Moses’ followers fighting the people of Midian. “They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man,” the passage reads.

So when I read of Moses’ time in Midian (Exod. 2:15–4:19), I feel something of myself in him: the constant alien, the one who looks from outside and holds together some sense of home in Midian, where ...

The love between Moses and Jethro didn’t seem to have a happy ending. But G-d has the last word, and the two men will play out the final act when the Messiah arrives and the sad times are over ...

As recorded in Exodus 3, God appeared to Moses in the burning bush in Midian at “Horeb, the mountain of God,” also known as Mt. Sinai.

He killed an Egyptian taskmaster (Exodus 2:12), and ran, exiled, from Egypt to Midian. It was in Midian where he became the Moses who would discover God at the Burning Bush.

Forced to leave behind his life as a prince in Egypt, Moses finds refuge in Midian. A mysterious encounter compels him to take on a divine mission.

Burton has hopes that modern Midian, now almost a desert, may yet rival the ancient land from whose people the Israelites, in the exercise of their divine vocation, carried off “the gold and the ...