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Is God Behind a Plague? Crisis and Transformation in the Bible

Biblical examples of pandemic offer a vision of crisis as an opportunity to create something new.

July 8, 2020

July 8, 2020

Dr. Israel Knohl is a Senior Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute. He has a doctorate in Bible from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible. Professor Knohl has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Chicago Divinity School. His numerous publications include: Messiahs and Resurrection in the Gabriel Revelation (Shalom

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Is God Behind a Plague? Crisis and Transformation in the Bible

Biblical examples of pandemic offer a vision of crisis as an opportunity to create something new. In this session, Israel Knohl explores these examples and how they related to understanding God’s place in a pandemic.