God presented a burning bush to Moses at their first meeting. In the wilderness of Midian, Moses happened to come upon a bush that was burning, but which was not ...

Moses was singularly significant as God’s most intimate and important prophet regardless of the lack of historic evidence ...

This is Italian artist Domenico “Domenichino” Zampieri’s depiction of Moses talking to God in the Burning Bush and being assigned to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Zampieri lived from ...

Why, out of all places, did God reveal himself to Moses through the sneh (burning bush)? (Exodus 3:2). One possibility is that the experience seems to be a microcosm of revelation. Note the similarity ...

Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in ...

Luke Timothy Johnson, known for his scholarly commentaries on the third Gospel, described this Sunday’s Gospel reading as a call not only to repentance from sin but also a call to become aware that ...

During a recent visit to Jerusalem, a woman in her 80s explained to me how she came to live in Israel. Her father was at Auschwitz when it was liberated. He lay on top of a pile of corpses, unable to ...