Parallels Between Jesus’ Infancy in Matthew and the Moses Story in the Bible and Later Jewish Sources
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From Moses to Jesus: Parallel Themes
Joseph—the Brilliant Failure
Reader’s Reply
New Mt. Sinai Manuscripts
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Books For Bible Study
Bible Books
The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader
Aaron Wildavsky (University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1984) 262 pp., $25.00, cloth; $11.95, paper
God’s Fire: Moses and the Management of Exodus
Bible Quiz
How well do you know the Old Testament?
Here’s your chance to match wits with 33 teenagers from 16 countries who came to Jerusalem last spring to participate in the 22nd annual Jewish Youth Bible Contest.
On April 25, as part of Israel’s Independence Day celebration, 17 finalists competed in front of television cameras, and hundreds of thousands of Israelis tuned in to view the live broadcast.
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First Glance
Innocent or guilty? What verdict does modern Bible scholarship pronounce on Jacob, who tricked his older brother Esau out of an inheritance? Was Jacob guilty? Or was the blame his mother Rebekah’s? In the cycle of deceptions that follows Jacob’s in the Bible—entwining Laban, Jacob, Rachel and more—where does the lying end?
Help Us Find Biblical Art
The beautiful representation of “Rebekah at the Well” by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot on page 62 came to our attention quite accidentally on a trip to the Norton Simon Museum in Los Angeles. None of our usual sources—commercial archives, art historians and museums—had told us about this work.
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