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The two images shown here, from two 14th century Catalonian Haggadot, the Golden Haggadah and the Rylands Haggadah, both depict the plague of frogs. Though at first glance the images are somewhat straightforward and simple, the artists’ differing portrayals raise questions about the nature of the plague, how and by whom it was brought, and for what purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Only Moses and Pharaoh appear in the Golden Haggadah.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In contrast, the Rylands Haggadah portrays Aaron and Pharaoh\u2019s magicians as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is unclear from the Biblical text who was present during the beginning of the plague itself; we know only that afterwards the magicians were able to replicate the feat. The differing portrayals raise the issue of the role of both Aaron and the magicians and how this relates to the purpose of the plagues. Were the initial plagues set up, in part, as a contest between the “messengers of God” and the “magicians of Pharaoh” to teach that God\u2019s agents had behind them a power much stronger than magic?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Adapted from: ALHATORAH.ORG<\/span><\/p>\n

For fuller analysis, see: <\/span>http:\/\/alhatorah.org\/Plague_of_%D7%A6%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%A2_in_Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The Plague of Frogs in Art","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"God's wonder or first round of the duel?","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":41242,"id":41242,"title":"ex8-golden","filename":"ex8-golden.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-plague-of-frogs-in-art\/ex8-golden\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ex8-golden","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41241,"date":"2018-10-01 05:03:01","modified":"2018-10-01 05:04:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":489,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden-245x300.jpg","medium-width":245,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden.jpg","medium_large-width":489,"medium_large-height":600,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden.jpg","large-width":489,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden.jpg","1536x1536-width":489,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden.jpg","2048x2048-width":489,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden.jpg","post_full_size-width":489,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex8-golden-342x420.jpg","home_baner-width":342,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104327,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41241\/revisions\/104327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}