Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence

Ancient Israel’s Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes

Warren Robertson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Gorgias Press

Published:11th Jun '14

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Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence cover

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.

ISBN: 9781463203740

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210 pages