The Nine Natural Disasters

The Nine Natural Disasters
EXODUS 7: 14- 8: 7

As I came out of my office the other day, a little group of students were strolling past and greeted me with the comment, “Oh, it’s the one and only Dr. Goldingay!” I was able to respond, “Actually I’m not the ‘one and only.’ ” My daughter-in-law is just finishing a PhD, and I had been wondering whether there are any other Dr. Goldingays apart from my wife and me, so I did a search and discovered a Dr. Goldingay in Australia, who is an expert in frogs. It would be nice to consult him about this bit of Exodus. The movie Magnolia came to a climax with a scene in which thousands of frogs fall from the heavens. A sign on the side of the road says, “Exodus 8:2.” The significance of the frogs is not obvious, but apparently part of the background to the movie scene is that there are reports from time to time of the sky raining frogs or other small creatures (but not cats and dogs) during a storm, because somehow the wind sucked up the frogs from a stretch of water and dropped them some distance away...