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Thomas Mann's novella The Tables of the Law (1944) is a retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its main character. [208] W. G. Hardy's novel All the Trumpets Sounded (1942) tells a fictionalized life of Moses. [209] Orson Scott Card's novel Stone Tables (1997) is a novelization of the life of Moses. [210]
During the Exodus, Moses stretches his hand with the staff to part the Red Sea. While in the "wilderness" after leaving Egypt, Moses follows God's command to strike a rock with the rod to create a spring for the Israelites to drink from (Exodus 17:5–7). Moses does so, and water springs forth from the rock in the presence of the Elders of Israel.
Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah; Moses and the Messengers from Canaan; Moses at the Rock of Horeb; Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law; Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters; Moses Elects Seventy Elders; Moses Leaving for Egypt; Musa va 'Uj
The presentation of Moses with rays of light remained common until the 19th century, for example appearing in the Bible illustrations of Gustave Doré (1866). The Bible says that Moses' appearance had changed when he returned from his lengthy encounter with God on Mount Sinai, a change represented in art by the "horns" or rays. Logically, in ...
Moses the Lawgiver is a six-hour television miniseries filmed in 1973/74 and starring Burt Lancaster as Moses. It was an ITC/RAI co-production filmed in Rome and on location in Israel and Morocco. Many of the writers, cast and crew contributed to another ITC/RAI Biblical co-production, the ambitious miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, released in 1977.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
The Exposition of Moses, as his mother casts him off. The princess's party is further down the bank. Nicolas Poussin. The less common preceding scene of Moses being left in the reeds is formally called""' The Exposition of Moses'"". [6] In some depictions, this is shown in the distance as a subsidiary scene, and some books show both scenes.
In the foreground, on the left, Moses brings the Tables to the Israelites. In the background is camp of tents, with the altar of the golden calf in the middle; the Israelites, spurred by Aaron, are adoring it: the position of some of them, painted from behind, was usually used for negative characters, such as Judas Iscariot in the Last Supper ...