After a human case of bubonic plague was confirmed in Pueblo County last week, CU Boulder scholar Thora Brylowe explores why it and all plagues inspire such terror Of ...
Steven Weitzman, a professor of Jewish Studies and religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, examines how people use the biblical story of the 10 plagues to make sense of catastrophe in ...
Yardbarker: Exodus 10-11: Yet Three more Plagues: Locusts, Darkness, and the Death of the Firstborn
In Exodus chapters 10–11, three more horrible plagues from God affect Egypt. Pharaoh hardens his heart twice, and finally relents only after the death of the firstborn. These are the last three ...
Exodus 10-11: Yet Three more Plagues: Locusts, Darkness, and the Death of the Firstborn
The 10 Plagues are among the most iconic miracles in the Torah – right alongside the splitting of the Red Sea. But two questions naturally arise: Why 10? And why these specific 10? The honest answer ...
National Catholic Register: The 10 Plagues of Egypt: Signs and Wonders Meant to Move the Heart
As noted before, Pharaoh’s continued hardness of heart inaugurates a cycle of events often called “the ten plagues on Egypt.” Exodus does use the word “plague” but it also calls them “signs and ...
The 10 Plagues of Egypt: Signs and Wonders Meant to Move the Heart
Redlands Daily Facts: Professing faith: What’s the meaning of the plagues in the Bible?
A student recently asked me why the Bible seems to have so many plagues in it and what all these plagues are for. To give a quick answer, in the Bible, plagues occur because the Almighty is angry ...