| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - However, since boils are a symptom of the bubonic plague and the plague is frequently carried by the fleas on rats, most authorities identify what is described in 1 Samuel as the bubonic plague, a malady endemic to the Near East during this Late Bronze/Iron period (Gaster and Frazer 1969, 452; Mendenhall 1973, 107).
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