A Haggada, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman, a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, is built on a claim that scholars of the ancient Near East (Middle East) have long recognized but that has never ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

It’s mentioned in the Book of Exodus. A 3,000-year-old fortress tied to the Book of Exodus has been found in North Sinai, Egypt. The discovery includes artifacts, one with an inscription of King ...

As noted before, Pharaoh’s continued hardness of heart inaugurates a cycle of events often called “the ten plagues on Egypt.” Exodus does use the word “plague” but it also calls them “signs and ...

What if Moses wasn’t a Hebrew slave… but an Egyptian insider? Pharaoh Akhenaten attempted to dismantle Egypt’s powerful priesthood and promote a single creator deity — Aten. After his death, his ...

Learn about the Jewish holiday's history, its ties to Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the traditional Seder meal.