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  2. Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

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    Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. It is transmitted between animals through fleas. Humans can be infected through: the bite of infected vector fleas. unprotected contact with infectious bodily fluids or contaminated materials.

  3. Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

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    Plague. Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. The disease is transmitted between animals via their fleas and, as it is a zoonotic bacterium, it can also transmit from animals to humans. Humans can be contaminated by the bite of infected fleas, through direct contact ...

  4. Exodus in the Bible and the Egyptian Plagues

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    According to Exodus 7:4–5, the function of the plagues is didactic: “I will lay my hands upon Egypt and deliver hosts, my people, the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment. And the Egyptians shall know that I am God when I stretch out my hand against Egypt.”.

  5. Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

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    Plague is an infectious disease found in some small mammals and their fleas. People can contract plague if they are in bitten by infected fleas, and develop the bubonic form of plague. Sometimes bubonic plague progresses to pneumonic plague, when the bacteria reaches the lungs. Person-to-person transmission is possible through the inhalation of ...

  6. Pandemic, Plague, and Biblical History

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    The role of epidemic disease in human history is not questioned. The devastation of the Bubonic Plague, or the Black Death, in the 14th-century C.E. is known to have played a role in the destabilization of feudalism, and the transition from the Middle Ages in Europe to the Renaissance. The flu pandemic of 1918 was hard felt: recent scholarship ...

  7. The Exodus: Fact or Fiction? - Biblical Archaeology Society

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    The Hyksos were able to enter Egypt easily shortly after the Exodus because of the devastation that the 10 plagues caused and the Ipuwer Manuscript describes this time. The ancestor (Jacob) of the Children of Israel entered Egypt originally in the 3rd Dynasty; Joseph was Imhotep as can be shown through probability; the divergence of the two ...

  8. The Antonine Plague and the Spread of Christianity

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    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 ...

  9. Reinterpreting the Tempest Stela - Biblical Archaeology Society

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    The Oriental Institute researchers believe the Tempest Stela describes the catastrophic weather phenomena that resulted in the aftermath of the mid-second millennium B.C.E. volcanic eruption on the Minoan island of Thera. If the researchers are correct, then the reign of Ahmose I—the first pharaoh of the 18th dynasty—would be dated closer ...

  10. Egyptian Plagues Archives - Biblical Archaeology Society

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    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.

  11. Akhenaten and Moses - Biblical Archaeology Society

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    Your hypothesis might have some merit, had both Akhenaten and Moses lived during the same period. In this article, you point out that Akhenaten reined between 1352 and 1336 BCE. Unfortunately, Moses lived around three-hundred years earlier — the story of the Exodus covers a period between 1657 and 1512 BCE.