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Rabbeinu Bahya and the Case of the Mysterious Medieval Lightning Rod
Yaakov Taubes
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Lehrhaus
· 7 Oct 2021
The commentary of Rabbeinu Bahya, a 13th-century Spanish exegete, contains a description of a lightning rod in his interpretation of the Tower of Babel story in Genesis.