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The Ten Plagues about which we begin reading this week have always bothered me. If God’s intention was to redeem the Israelite people from Egyptian slavery then He could have just taken them out ...

When the Passover holiday begins on Friday at sundown, Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the 10 plagues that God ...

The Ten Plagues were a lesson in proportionate warfare. Yes, really. Moses was a national liberation leader, determined to free his people from slavery, oppression and the pervasive threat of genocide ...

Along with Jews the world over, I’m preparing to celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, as recounted primarily in the biblical book of Exodus. Usually, the coming of ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Last week, I gave a lecture at the Coastal Institute of the University of Rhode Island entitled “Auditing ...

Pandemics are inexorable—and the canon of plague literature is a chronicle of nature's senselessness and its indomitability. “There was no ostensible cause,” wrote Thucydides in 431 BC, about the ...

For the first time in recorded history, bacteria, viruses, and other plagues and pestilence do not cause the majority of deaths or disabilities in any region of the world. Curbing infectious diseases ...