Exodus
A famous and sorely misunderstood painting of Napoleon touching plague victims in Palestine illuminates the current moment.
It’s hard to extract universal philosophical or political lessons from a set of books that is so resolutely particular.
An expression of God’s enduring compassion.
Read to its tragic depths, the Bible suggests that the last, cruelest laugh is always on God.
Satan at the seder.
Is there a difference between pestilence and plague?
A tale of two Josephs.
There’s a great deal more at stake in Exodus than getting the slaves out of Egypt. What might it be?
“We shall do and we shall understand.”
Perhaps they weren’t so multitudinous after all.
It takes a village to raise a sinner.
Freedom to enter into the covenant.
Ironic inversions unite two narratives of redemption.
The eminent bible scholar and author of the essay “Was There an Exodus?” joins us in the studio.