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Moses sets out to rise up against the Egyptian Pharoah. He frees 400,000 slaves and they all journey across Egypt fighting deadly plagues. The epic tale of one man₂s daring courage to take on an empire.

In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses's life from the day he is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation...

“Someday,” said the tribute-offering called Nofret, “I shall be the chief of the queen’s servants. Then I can call myself whatever I please.”

Nofret is the daughter of a Hittite nobleman, captured by enemies from Mitanni and sent as tribute to the Pharaoh in Egypt: the strange, otherworldly Akhenaten, who rules from his raw new city of Amarna. As servant to his daughter, she witnesses the rise and fall of Akhenaten

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A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.

To escape death for being a Jew, Moses is put in the River Nile by his mother, and rescued and raised by the daughter of a Pharaoh. When his true identity is exposed, he is touched by God to lead his people out of Egypt.

Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this version tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's bousehold, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom. No celebrating its 55th anniversary, this film has been fully restored.

"Gilbert Morris now turns this biblical saga to the story of Moses with a compelling vision of a holy, personal God"--Provided by publisher.