In the Hebrew scriptures, Moses' face shone as he descended Mount Sinai after his encounter with God. Carrying two stone tablets, he walked among the people with a Godly glow.

God's Stairmaster There are two routes for the 4.3-mile (7 km) round trip: The camel path, which was our route, or a steeper, more direct route of some 3,750 stairs to the top, sometimes referred ...

The Doubting Thomas Research Foundation claims Mount Sinai is Jabal Maqla, which lies in the Jabal al-Lawz mountain range in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

Nearly everyone, religious or not, knows the story of how the Ten Commandments came to be. The biblical book of Exodus, in chapter 19, lays out the scene: Moses and the Israelites, months after ...

Moshe descended Mount Sinai, threw the tablets to the ground, and destroyed the golden calf. ... God is telling us that Judaism is meant to be participatory. It is not a spectator sport.

"God, we seek your intervention at this sacred place where Moses received the Ten Commandments," Fr. Vitalis Anaehobi said, leading Catholics in prayer at Mount Sinai Nov. 14, during U.N. climate ...

The Rev. Mike Ruffin discusses the lack of clarity in Christian life and recalls a college story where the professor had him ...

When Moses brought the children of Israel to the base of Mt. Sinai, where he first met God, it was “wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire.

Whether this is Mount Sinai and the winter solstice phenomenon the burning bush “is in the eye of the beholder,” Mr. Shilo said. “But,” he added, “it’s a great myth, you have to admit ...

The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.