Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence ISBN: 9781463236199 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Gorgias Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
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.