The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments is a movie from 1956. It stars Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Rameses II. It was directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille. It is based on the books of Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, Eusebius, the Midrash and the Book of Exodus.
Reception
The Ten Commandments won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Charlton Heston was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in a drama. The critics at the time generally liked it but they also noticed the differences between the story of the Exodus as told in the Bible and what the movie said.
The Ten Commandments Media
This 1768 parchment by Jekuthiel Sofer emulated the 1675 Ten Commandments at the Amsterdam Esnoga synagogue
Part of the All Souls Deuteronomy, containing the oldest extant copy of the Decalogue. It is dated to the early Herodian period, between 30 and 1 BCE.
The Ten Commandments as they appear in a Torah scroll
The Ten Commandments on a glass plate
Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments (painting c. 1675 by Aron de Chavez)
Moses receives the Ten Commandments in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, a Lutheran.
A Christian school in India displays the Ten Commandments.
The Sixth Commandment, as translated by the Book of Common Prayer (1549).The image is from the altar screen of the Temple Church near the Law Courts in London.
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