Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...

Misha Shulman has been working on his play Pharaoh, about the villain from Exodus, for over a decade. When he speaks with people about it he gets a curious response. “Most people, I tell them, ‘Well ...

The destinies of today’s pharaohs are already written in the destinies of the pharaohs of the past. Parashat Shemot is often read as an ancient story about slavery and liberation, about bricks and ...

The Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted on Egypt to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. Although the ...

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