Back in January, we were reading in synagogue of the encounters between Moses and Pharaoh and facing the eternally perplexing question of how it could be fair for God to “harden Pharaoh’s hear ...

The artifact was interred in honor of Khufu, the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid, by his son and successor Djedefre. For four and a half millennia, it lay undisturbed in its limestone sarcophagus.

So let’s take a look at these words, and what they reveal about our language. The correct spelling is pharaoh. The word comes from Egyptian word Pr-'o meaning ‘great house’. It was adopted ...