Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence
ISBN: 9781463236199
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Gorgias Press
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This interdisciplinary study integrates textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible and comparable ancient Near Eastern material with social theory and archaeology in order to articulate the ancient Israelites' taken-for-granted understandings of natural disasters, their intellectual and theological challenges to those understandings, and their intellectual and theological reconstructions thereof.

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