Robert Moses is pissed off. He paces around screaming. The blood rushes to his head; his face is bright-red, then so red it’s white again, whiter than it was to begin with. Spittle flies from his ...

Throughout the protracted negotiations between Moses and Pharaoh, punctuated by plague after plague, the narrator in Exodus stays true to form: biblical storytellers are like cameras, not therapists; ...