Are the Plagues on Egypt Real?

Jewish scholar nahum sarna offers a salient assessment of the plagues on egypt from a theological perspective. They are instances of god's harnessing the forces of nature for the realization of his own historical purpose. The tenth and final visitation upon the pharaoh and his people is the one plague for which no rational explanation can be given. It belongs entirely to the category of the supernatural. All the other plagues are phenomena that are known to occur in egypt, and that could have been providentially timed and amplified by god to communicate his message. A sceptic could still say that he doesn't believe that these happened, but he can't say they involved unprecedented violations of natural