Timeline for The Plague of Darkness
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | Bach | I considered your second suggestion for a long time. As the OP points out, the darkness is too mysterious to have been a new plague, so i was thinking that this plague was merely an extension of the previous plague (the 9th focuses on the aspect of darkness rather than the devastation they brought upon the land in the 8th plague). Indeed the plague of locust is also described in the Torah as darkening the land Ex. 10:15. I very much encourage such an interpretation. +1. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 20:42 | comment | added | avi | Lol, there should be a badge for lowest vote, or most downvotes, and accepted answer status :P | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 16:03 | vote | accept | morah hochman | ||
| Jan 27, 2012 at 7:49 | comment | added | avi | I'm truly amazed at the two downvotes. The question asked how this darkness could be explained with science. I gave three options of how that could be done. Sheesh! | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 21:10 | comment | added | msh210♦ | @YDK, if this answer means to address the question's second subquestion only, then it doesn't need Jewish sources: that subquestion seeks what non-Jewish views on the maka say (and would seem to be off-topic, incidentally). | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 21:03 | comment | added | YDK | @avi, OK it fits structurally. Are there any sources in chazal that suggest this? | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 20:22 | history | edited | avi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2012 at 20:21 | comment | added | avi | @YDK I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say. But the story line is like this: Locusts come and eat up the crops. Pharoah asks Moshe to pray to send the locusts away, he does so. The locusts go away. Pharoah does not let the Jews go. The Locusts come back, creating darkness in a more dense cloud, and hang around for 3 days. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 20:19 | comment | added | YDK | In order to say that, you need to be able to fit the narrative of Darkness within that of Locust. The endings, however, contradict each other. By Locust, Moshe prayed at Paraoh's request. By Darkness, Paraoh threw Moshe out. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 20:16 | history | edited | avi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2012 at 20:11 | comment | added | avi | @YDK the suggestion is that the 8th plague is about eating of all the crops, the 9th plague is that they stayed even when the food was gone and caused days of darkness. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 20:10 | history | edited | avi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2012 at 19:52 | comment | added | YDK | Also, if it was a sandstorm, why wasn't it described as such similar to the descriptions of other plagues. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 19:50 | comment | added | YDK | The cloud of locust blocking the sun was the previous plague about which was said that not one remained in all the border of Mitzrayim. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | msh210♦ | if you can remember where you saw this it would make your answer more valuable. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 19:06 | history | answered | avi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |