As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...
Ancient Egyptians didn’t prepare only human bodies for the afterlife; cats, baboons, crocodiles, canines, and birds have all been found mummified. But there’s something particularly delightful about ...