The eleventh plague : Jews and pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 /

In the nineteenth century, Rabbi Yehoshua Shlomo Ardit (1789-1876) noted how daily life in the towns and villages around Izmir in western Turkey, where he lived, was controlled by a predictable cycle of plagues and pandemics. Most business, he observed, was conducted during the winter months, while...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Brown, Jeremy, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Diseases in the Bible. Medicine in rabbinical literature. Epidemics > Religious aspects. Pandemics.