The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to Covid-19 9780197607206, 9780197607183, 0197607209

The Jews and the Bible 9780804793216

Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion an

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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 9781578597369, 9781578596393, 9781578594719, 9781578595426, 9781578594177, 9781578594191, 9781578594788, 9781578594900

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Plagues, Pandemics And Viruses: From The Plague Of Athens To Covid 19 [1st Edition] 1578597390, 9781578597390, 1578597048, 9781578597048, 1578597366, 9781578597369

Pandemics can come in waves—like tidal waves! They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3

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Imagined Communities on the Baltic Rim, from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: From the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries 9789048528998

This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of co

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Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque 9780271090771

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the fir

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The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain

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The Roman Empire and the Plague: The History of the Worst Pandemics to Strike Rome and the Byzantines in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 3483763717

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Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague 9781512822885

A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writ

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The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible 0691243298, 9780691243290

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stag

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The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible 9780691243306

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stag

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