Django Unchained is a bloody, violent movie (although if you pay close attention there is a lot of violence in the Book of Exodus as well), but ultimately, like the story of Israelite slavery, it is a story of the triumph of morality over evil, and the goodness that can imbue and ultimately redeem the souls of those who are evil's victims.
One of the first-ever printed books to accompany the Passover seder, it boasted intricate woodcuts framing every page, illustrating the story of the Exodus as well as the domestic scenes of men and women, preparing for Passover (mostly women) and celebrating it (mostly men).
Some 40 million Americans trace their ancestry to Ireland as a result of that traumatic exodus, as do millions of others throughout the world.
His father, Ernest Gold, who died in 1999, wrote the Academy Award-winning score for the movie "Exodus," as well as the scores for "Judgment at Nuremberg" and "Ship of Fools".
Many Christians also like to quote Exodus as well.
Exodus airs as it is revealed that since David Cameron pledged to offer unaccompanied child refugees sanctuary in the UK two months ago, not one has been brought into the country from Europe.
Her next novel, "Moses, Man of the Mountain," published in 1939, seems a failed reprise of the Bible-based all-Negro Broadway hit "Green Pastures," with the story of Exodus as its blackface subject.
His last major project was Migrations, or Exodus, as he prefers to call it.
He did not support the Exodus as a policy because he judged it bad for black labor, and that it did not address the institutional problems that caused the Exodus: peonage and exploitation, unequal justice, unrestrained violence, lack of resources and opportunities, and in particular, education.
The UN says about 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the battle for Mosul began in October and aid organisations are preparing for another exodus as the offensive enters its latest stage.
