In this new book, Steven Weitzman looks at how the 10 plagues are reflected in cultural conversations across time.

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The festival of Passover starts Saturday. Jews throughout the world will commemorate the exodus from Egypt and the birth of a covenantal people. Passover's narrative, culminating in the formation of ...

When the Passover holiday begins — on the evening of April 8 in 2020 — Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the 10 plagues ...

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Along with Jews the world over, I’m preparing to celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, as recounted primarily in the biblical book of Exodus. Usually, the coming of ...

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Pandemics are inexorable—and the canon of plague literature is a chronicle of nature's senselessness and its indomitability. “There was no ostensible cause,” wrote Thucydides in 431 BC, about the ...