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The Ten Plagues about which we begin reading this week have always bothered me. If God’s intention was to redeem the Israelite people from Egyptian slavery then He could have just taken them out ...

When the Passover holiday begins on Friday at sundown, Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the 10 plagues that God ...

The Ten Plagues were a lesson in proportionate warfare. Yes, really. Moses was a national liberation leader, determined to free his people from slavery, oppression and the pervasive threat of genocide ...

The Jewish exodus from Egypt was proceeded by 10 plagues the caused the pharaoh to relent and allow them to leave. But were they really divine intervention? The Bible tells the story of the Israelites ...

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 ...