Title: Drought, famine, plague and pestilence
Description: Robertson integrates textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible and comparable ancient Near Eastern material with social theory and archaeology in order to articulate ancient Israel's assumptions about natural catastrophes, as well as their intellectual and theological challenges and reconstructions thereto.
Subjects: Natural disasters, Bible, Judaism, Jews, Criticism, interpretation, Punishment, Providence and government of God, History, Religious aspects
Time periods: 586 B.C.-70 A.D.