Moses
Israel's reluctant rescuer
Moses, deliverer of the fledgling nation Israel, hasn't been immune to caricature. He's been high-lowed by artists, commentators and entrepreneurs across the spectrum, from the epic-making Cecil B. DeMille, to the joke-cracking Mel Brooks, to an admiring Michaelangelo.

Picture Imperfect
Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ"
Close your eyes and try to picture Jesus. What do you see? For many Americans Jesus has somehow become a white-robed, longhaired Caucasian.

Perambulating the Pentateuch
A Review of Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible
Let’s be honest. Without a refresher course in ancient history much of the Pentateuch could be rendered as so much static. Enter NPR contributor Bruce Feiler’s present-day odyssey.

"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, why then do we read it? A book must be an ice-ax to break up the sea frozen inside us."

—Franz Kafka