Tag: Pharaohs

Pharaoh’s List: Midrash and Apophasis

In sketching genealogies of Jewish theology it’s become something of a trope, I’ve found, to attribute all traces of apophatic thought — that is, those modes of thinking and writing theologically through a process of negation or construction of absence, also known as writing v...

Children of the Pharaohs: Growing Up in Ancient Egypt

What was it like to grow up in Ancient Egypt? Did the Ancient Egyptians have familial bonds like our own…or was ancient life vastly different for a child? In “Cleopatra as a Child: The Real Story,” I explored the life of Egypt’s last pharaoh — albeit, she was really...