As Passover draws near, there’s a dramatic scholarly breakthrough linking archeology to the Biblical Exodus. The text speaks of a tremendous storm that involved both upper and lower Egypt. It states ...

The right approach is to look for signs of Egyptian culture in the Torah, Bar Ilan Prof. Joshua Berman says. Over the past few weeks, millions of Jews gathering in synagogues all over the world have ...

Tracing the biblical Exodus route through the desert, one woman found a story of endurance and the unseen labor that makes survival possible Silence heightens before light departs from the desert at ...

For anyone interested in the Bible, Richard Elliott Friedman’s new book is a game changer. Friedman makes a credible and convincing case for the historical truth of a story that has been widely ...

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On the terrace of an Italian restaurant in a small town in central Israel, two men have had a good lunch and, over coffee, start to reminisce about events 60 years earlier. "Remember how we nearly ...

According to multiple books in the Old Testament, the Israelites came into possession of the land of Canaan after they left slavery in Egypt—an event known as the Exodus. Yet, according to some ...

With Passover here, it is a propitious time to address the central issue of the holiday: the Exodus. Specifically, did the Exodus happen? My friend Rabbi David Wolpe announced some years ago that it ...