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Moses Formwalt Monument
In Abrahamic religions, Moses was the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in the Exodus from Egypt. He is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and Samaritanism, and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran, God dictated the Mosaic Law to Moses, which he wrote down in the five books of the Torah. According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a period when his people, the Israelites, who were an enslaved minority, were increasing in population; consequently, the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies. When Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites, Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him in the bulrushes along the Nile river. Pharaoh's daughter discovered the infant there and adopted him as a foundling, thus he grew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Breaking The Tablets Of The Law
''Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law'' is a 1659 oil-on-canvas painting of the prophet Moses by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It depicts Moses about to break the original Tablets of Stone, two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. References See also * List of paintings by Rembrandt Bibliography * Kristin Bahre u. a. (Hrsg.): ''Rembrandt. Genie auf der Suche''. DuMont Literatur und Kunst, Köln 2006. * Christian Tümpel: ''Rembrandt''. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2006. . Shalom Sabar, “Between Calvinists and Jews: Hebrew Script in Rembrandt’s Art,” in Mitchell B. Merback, ed., B''eyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early European Modern Visual Culture'' (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 371-404, 559-573. {{ACArt 1659 paintings Paintings by Rembrandt Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Paintings of Moses Ten Commandments in art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
