Apr 25, 2024 10 min read

Whither the Plagues

This is a fantastic text for seeing how midrash gets constructed-- to say nothing of the political subversion.

illuminated manuscript depicting four of the plagues
The Golden Haggadah depicting four out of ten, here: painful boils, frogs here, frogs there, livestock disease kills some animals and then wild animals show up. Catalonia, Spain sometime around 1320.
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