Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

High-density swarms of plague locusts are popping up across western NSW, prompting calls for farmers to be proactive.

Hatred is a spiritual sickness that consumes the soul, warps reason, and drives us toward self-destructive actions. Pharaoh’s ...

In Exodus, God summons Ten Plagues against the Egyptians to free the Jews. Although some people view this story as … Continue ...

In the wake of the plague of locusts, Pharaoh himself admitted (Exodus 10:16), “I have sinned to God.” The silver screen has always had a morbid fascination with disasters of biblical proportions.

Jim Long and Rabbi Chaim Richman take up their discussion and delve into the rich sources of the Midrash and Oral Tradition, ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

The final appearance of the staff in the Exodus story occurs in the iconic moment when Moses splits the sea, carrying out the ...

By the time the plague of locusts was announced, Egypt stood on the brink of ruin, its once-mighty economy reduced to shambles. The Jewish slaves were no longer worth the burden; they had become a ...

The eighth plague to the Egyptians (and the first one in Parashat Bo) was locusts. Perhaps locusts with their single-minded purpose mirror something about the Israelites’ relationships.