How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

Kugel, James L.

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ISBN 10: 074323586X ISBN 13: 9780743235860

Published by Free Press, 2007

Language: English

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Title: How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 074323586X
ISBN 13: 9780743235860
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Like New
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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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