Exhibition at the Reagan Library coincides with both Passover in Judaism and Holy Week and Easter Week in Christianity.

Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956) is a beloved movie that tells the epic story of Moses. However, while the movie covers Moses’ rise as a leader and the dramatic events in Egypt ...

It opens with Moses delivering the Ten Commandments amidst the Israelites’ rebellion, depicting the golden calf incident and Moses’ destruction of the tablets in anger. The narrative then ...

In correspondence between Weinman and Gilbert in 1932 and 1933 about the design of the friezes, the Ten Commandments is not even mentioned. Moses is described as one in a parade of “great ...