A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

Some historians suggest the biblical Moses and the revolutionary Pharaoh Akhenaten may have been the same man. Could this bold theory rewrite history? Republicans double down on discharge petitions ...

This week on a special Halloween episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak with Micah Kiel, a professor of New Testament at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minn., ...

One of the largest tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings reopened to visitors after more than 20 years of renovation. The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 ...

A once-powerful pharaoh's priceless bracelet was melted down and sold after being stolen from an Egyptian museum, according to local officials. The disappearance of the bracelet, which once belonged ...

Moses takes leave of Jethro and Midian and, accompanied by Aaron, makes his way to Egypt, where he first legitimates himself by the signs God has entrusted to him with the Hebrews. He then makes his ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has used the imagery of "Biblical plagues" to apparently threaten children in Yemen while simultaneously vowing that Israeli troops would remain on Syria's Mount ...

“Black Moses,” by Caleb Gayle, recounts the story of Edward McCabe, who dreamed of establishing a haven for Black settlers on the Western frontier. By Greg Grandin Greg Grandin teaches at Yale ...

Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...

I try to find economic lessons in books, TV shows, and films that aren’t at all about economics. It’s really not that hard. Lots of stories revolve around the notion of unintended consequences.

The pistol-packin’ padre is not an unknown figure in Westerns — particularly 1960s European “spaghetti” Westerns — but you’d be hard-pressed to name movies which cast their rabbinical brethren in a ...