“The president could have nominated Moses the Lawgiver,” Leahy said. “In fact, I told the president, I said, ‘You realize if you had nominated Moses the Lawgiver, somebody would raise, ‘But he doesn’t ...

Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by ...

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana on Wednesday invoked biblical figures as he signed a law to require public school classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments. “If you want to ...

The Story of the Exodus or freedom of Hebrews from Egypt is told from a perspective that highlights Moses' efforts to persuade first the stubborn Pharaoh Merneptah, who was his adopted cousin, to ...

When most of us visualize Moses, we think of Charlton Heston from “The Ten Commandments” or maybe Burt Lancaster from TV’s “Moses the Lawgiver”a tall, handsome, athletic straight-nosed stentorian hero ...

A great deal has changed in scripture interpretation since the high days of modernism. Interpreters no longer seek original intent of the text in the fashion of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin ...

At the age of 97, bestselling author Herman Wouk has written a novel that's told by the most contemporary storytelling technology, including... 'The Lawgiver': Telling Moses' Story, Differently SCOTT ...

The Lawgiver MOSES (505 pp.)—Sholem Asch—Putnam ($3.75). As a boy in Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: “Why has God divided mankind into Jew and Gentile?” With a ...

‏In the tapestry of our shared heritage, the stories of our prophets are the strongest threads. We, as Jews and Muslims, hold Moses as a central figure, a beacon of faith and divine revelation. Yet, ...

According to the Bible, Moses was 120 years old when he died within sight of the promised land. Novelist Herman Wouk is a mere 97. For decades, he has struggled with what he calls "a ghost of an idea" ...