Additional Resources

Books

Erin Leib Smokler (editor), Torah in a Time of Plague

Susan L. Einbinder, After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

Barbara J. Sivertsen, The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of the Exodus

S.I. Trevisanato, The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History and Science Look at the Bible

Fiction

Etgar Keret, Plague of the First Born (short story)

Sources Related to Plagues Project Videos

Sefaria Source Sheet to accompany Elli Fischer video

Tamara Mann Tweel, The Song of Sirens: Giving Birth at the Height of the Pandemic (in Tablet)

Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Is It Permitted to Flee the City? (in Tablet)

Moshe Covid Check and Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Plague, Practice, and Prescriptive Text: Jewish Traditions on Fleeing Afflicted Cities in Early Modern Ashkenaz (in Journal of Law, Religion and State)

Articles

Marc Zvi Brettler, Source Criticism: It's in the (Plague of) Blood: An Inductive Approach (at TheTorah.com)

Tobias Carroll, Pandemics: An Essential Reading List (New York Magazine — Vulture: Devouring Culture)

Zev Farber, The Original Reason for Spilling Wine: Protection from the Plagues (at TheTorah.com)

David Frankel, The Plague of Dead Fish (at TheTorah.com)

Jill Jacobs, The Ten Plagues (at MyJewishLearning.com)

John S. Marr and Curt Malloy, An Epidemiological Analysis of the Ten Plagues of Egypt (discussed in Biblical Plagues: A Novel Theory (New York Times))

Emily O’Donnell, Top 10 Genre Books About Plague And Pandemics To Read While Stuck Inside (ComicYears.com)

Gary Rendsburg, Reading the Plagues in their Ancient Egyptian Context (at TheTorah.com)

Gary Rendsburg, YHWH's War Against the Egyptian Sun-God Ra: Reading the Plagues of Locust, Darkness, and Firstborn in their Ancient Egyptian Context (at TheTorah.com)

Olivia B. Waxman, Did the 10 Plagues of Egypt Really Happen? (Time Magazine)

Tzemah Yoreh, The Three Redactional and Theological Layers of the Plagues (at TheTorah.com)

Ziony Zevit, Exodus in the Bible and the Egyptian Plagues: Can We Make Sense of the Biblical Blagues?

Ziony Zevit, Invoking Creation in the Story of the Ten Plagues: Demonstrating God’s Control of the World to the Israelites (at TheTorah.com)

Ziony Zevit, The Ten Plagues and Egyptian Ecology: Could the story have its basis in natural phenomena? (at TheTorah.com)

Online Reference Tools

The Text of Exodus &:14-12: (The Binding of Isaac) in Hebrew and English at Sefaria.com

Essays on Exodus Chapter 7 at 929 English

Essays on Exodus Chapter 8 at 929 English

Essays on Exodus Chapter 9 at 929 English

Essays on Exodus Chapter 10 at 929 English

Essays on Exodus Chapter 11 at 929 English

Essays on Exodus Chapter 12 at 929 English

Wikipedia (“Plagues of Egypt”)

MyJewishLearning.com (“Ten Plagues”)

MyJewishLearning.com (Tractate Pesachim, page 53) (about a Talmud section connecting plague of frogs to the Book of Daniel)

TheTorah.com (Topic = Plagues)

Related Videos, Podcast Episodes, and Other Multimedia Content

History in the Bible Podcast (“Exodus II: Leaving Egypt - September 13, 2015)

Parsha in Progress (“Is God a Show-Off?” - Va’era - January 20, 2020)

Parsha in Progress (“When Children Die By God’s Command” - Bo - January 27, 2020)

Tanakhcast (“The Collectively Punished Prisoner’s Dilemma Edition!” - August 7, 2013)

Tanakhcast (“The Being Like Atticus Finch Edition!” - August 13, 2013)

Richard Elliott Friedman: Return to Torah Episode 32: The Death of the Gods (connecting the plagues to the Egyptian gods)

BimBam (Parshat Va’eira - Katie Mizrahi)

BimBam (Parshat Bo - Joel Stanley)

Plague of the First Born - a Short Story by Etgar Keret (from the book The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God - read by Ishai Golan)

Poetry

[Hebrew] Nathan Alterman, Poems of the Plagues of Egypt (described in this Hebrew Wikipedia entry)

Visual Art

Coming Soon

Music

Songs from a 2006 concept album called “Plague Songs”

Blood (Klashnekoff)

Relate The Tale (Frogs) (King Creosote)

The Meaning Of Lice (Stephin Merritt)

Flies (Brian Eno)

The Fifth Plague (Laurie Anderson)

Boils (Cody Chesnutt)

Hailstones ·(The Tiger Lillies)

Glittering Cloud (Imogen Heap)

Darkness (Scott Walker)

Katonah (Death of the Firstborn) (Rufus Wainwright)

Comedy

“The Ten Plagues” - Hayehudim Ba’im (Israeli sketch comedy show - Hebrew only)

“The Tenth Plagues” - Hayehudim Ba’im (Israeli sketch comedy show - Hebrew only)

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