Editor's Note: This is a guest column by Peter T. Chattaway, who has seen more "biblical films" than anyone I know—more, possibly, than anyone else on the planet. Early on in Exodus: Gods and Kings, ...

MOSES, PRINCE OF EGYPT (303 pp.)—Howard Fast—Crown ($3.95). JEPHTA AND HIS DAUGHTER (255 pp.) —Lion Feuchtwanger—Putnam ($3.95). St. Paul told the Corinthians that “the children of Israel could not ...

Biblical epic 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' stars Christian Bale as Moses who, as the film opens, fights alongside his brother Ramses (a shaved-headed Joel Edgerton), to help defend Egypt, which is ruled ...

A team of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed a fort dating back millennia in Hosh Issa, uncovering artifacts including a bronze sword bearing the name of Pharaoh Ramses II. Ramses II, also known as ...

For a Hollywood costume designer, getting the call from director Ridley Scott saying he wants you to work on a big-budget biblical spectacle is a kind of holy grail. “The initial excitement is just ...