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By contrast, in Exodus 10:15 we are told that “nothing green was left of tree or grass of the field in all the land of Egypt.”. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the plagues is darkness, the ninth plague. In Exodus 10:21–23 we read that a thick darkness descended upon all the land of Egypt for three days.
Pandemics of Biblical Times . Classical Corner: The Antonine Plague and the Spread of Christianity. The Antonine Plague, described as similar to smallpox, may have killed as much as ten percent of the Roman population over a 23-year period in the late second century C.E. Aside from practical consequences of the outbreak, the destabilization of the Roman military and economy, the psychological ...
The Bible recounts that, as slaves, the Israelites were forced to build the store-cities of Pithom and Ramses. After the ten plagues, the Israelites left Egypt and famously crossed the Yam Suph (translated Red Sea or Reed Sea), whose waters were miraculously parted for them.
Read more about plagues in Bible History Daily. Justinian Plague Linked to the Black Death The reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I (482–565 C.E.) was marked by both glory and devastation. Justinian reconquered much of the former Roman Empire while establishing lasting legal codes and cultural icons, including Hagia Sophia, the world’s ...
The Book of Exodus in the Bible describes ten Egyptian plagues that bring suffering to the land of pharaoh. The ten plagues described in Exodus are water turning into blood, frogs, lice, flies, diseased livestock, boils, thunder and hail, locusts, darkness and the death of firstborn children and animals.
Ancient Heralds of Death. Plague and death in the ancient Near East. Death on a Pale Horse, personified by William Blake c. 1800, conjures up images of plague, pestilence, and famine of apocalyptic proportions. Living through a global pandemic, it is easy for our minds to be filled with biblical imagery of plagues and pestilence.
The Bible in the News. Plagued by the press. In his column The Bible in the News, Leonard J. Greenspoon looks at the various ways the famous Biblical story of the ten plagues of Egypt is used by today’s media. To the uninitiated, it seems highly improbable that the ten plagues (from Exodus 7–12) would show up often and in varied contexts on ...
Predictably, and often frighteningly, these beings make an appearance in Simcha Jacobovici’s DVD, Beasts of the Bible, along with the crocodile into which Aaron’s rod turns, the Philistine deity Dagon (half human/half fish?), six of the ten plagues, and cherubim. All of this—and more—is packaged in a way that will inform and entertain ...
The Antonine Plague, as it came to be known, would reach every corner of the empire and is what most likely claimed the life of Lucius Verrus himself in 169—and possibly that of his co-emperor Marcus Aurelius in 180. 1. The pestilential that swept through the Roman Empire following the return of Lucius Verrus’s army is attested to in the ...
The Lord then visited ten plagues upon the Egyptians until finally Pharaoh permanently relented—the last of the plagues being the slaying of the first-born males of Egypt. Some of the plagues are the type of disasters that recur often in human history—hailstorms and locusts—and therefore appear possible and realistic.