How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
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Published by Free Press, 2007
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- Title
- How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
- Author
- James L. Kugel
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 074323586X
- ISBN 13
- 9780743235860
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history, in a guide that covers such topics as the fates of Israelites who remained behind in Canaan and the correlation between the commandments and the Code of Hammurabi. 30,000 first printing.
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James L. Kugel, Starr Professor of Hebrew at Harvard from 1982 to 2003, now lives in Jerusalem. A specialist in the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation, he is the author of The God of Old and The Great Poems of the Bible. His course on the Bible was regularly one of the two most popular at Harvard, enrolling more than nine hundred students.
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