Disasters of Biblical Proportions
the ten plagues then, now, and at the end of the world
$51.99
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2026
Summary
Disasters of Biblical Proportions: A History of Reimagining the Ten Plagues
People have been telling and retelling stories about disasters for as long as they have been telling stories. One of the oldest of such stories is the ten plagues in the book of Exodus, the series of disasters that forced the Egyptians to liberate the Israelites. These plagues packed enough catastrophe to fill a series of summer blockbusters-rivers of blood, invasions of frogs and insects, mass disease, fier…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691270463 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691270465 |
| Author: | Steven Weitzman |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Steven Weitzman
Steven Weitzman is the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. He is the author of Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (Princeton), the winner of a National Jewish Book Award. He is also a coeditor of The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies (Princeton).
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