School of Critical Studies

PERCEPTIONS OF EPIDEMICS IN HEBREW POETRY

From Biblical Antiquity to Early Modernity By Yehoshua Granat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 14:00 GMT

The lecture will examine the ways in which epidemics are perceived in Hebrew poetic texts: from descriptions of plague as divine punishment, or demonic threat, in biblical Psalms, to the religious yet strikingly naturalistic attitude of a Hebrew poet from Padua who experienced the Italian Plague of 1629–1633.

Dr Yehoshua Granat is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; his main fields of research are Hebrew poetry of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Period.

Perceptions of Epidemics in Hebrew Poetry

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First published: 18 February 2023