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The Bible As It Wasby James L. KugelISBN 0674069412 (0-674-06941-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bible As It Was'Book summary:James Kugel's The Bible As It Was is an eye-opening study of early scriptural interpretation. Kugel focuses on readings of the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) from 100-300 A.D., particularly the Jewish tradition of midrash--a practice of filling in the narrative gaps where biblical stories are ambiguous or unclear. Kugel's interest in midrash is more than academic, however. He wants readers to consider the ways these early readings of the Bible affect today's popular understandings of scriptural texts (such as the sacrifice of Isaac or the creation in Genesis); and he provides a convincing description of the richness and complexity that informs what seem to many like simple, commonsense readings of scripture. [via]
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Early Biblical Interpretationby Rowan A. Greer, James L. Kugel , Wayne A. MeeksISBN 0664250130 (0-664-25013-0)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Biblical Interpretation'Book summary:This highly accessible book discusses how the early Jewish and Christian communities went about interpreting Scripture.
The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.
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The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bibleby James L. KugelISBN 0743235851 (0-7432-3585-1)
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The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translationsby James L. KugelISBN 0743253264 (0-7432-5326-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations'Book summary:James Kugel, professor of biblical studies at Harvard University, has taken the Bible's greatest poems and given each of them a dose of fresh thinking and a new translation. Chapter by chapter, Kugel leads readers into a new and sometimes profoundly different translation based on his interpretation of the original Hebrew Bible. As a lover and scholar of many languages, Kugel offers translations that are both eloquent and spiritually stirring. As a result, this is a feast for anyone who treasures beautiful language. But more so, it is a deeply satisfying discussion of beliefs in the biblical world. Kugel's essays boldly venture into the big questions: What does the Bible mean when it talks about people's souls? Where is the soul and what does it do? What is the source of human evil? These expertly written discussions never once bog down the poems. Rather, they bring greater texture and meaning to the ancient words. --Gail Hudson [via]
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- The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations: ISBN 068485774X (0-684-85774-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations: ISBN 0756763916 (0-7567-6391-6)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co - The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations: ISBN 0743253264 (0-7432-5326-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations: ISBN 068485774X (0-684-85774-X)
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Nowby James L. KugelISBN 0743235878 (0-7432-3587-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now'Book summary:Scholars from different fields have joined forces to reexamine every aspect of the Hebrew Bible. Their research, carried out in universities and seminaries in Europe and America, has revolutionized our understanding of almost every chapter and verse. But have they killed the Bible in the process?
In How to Read the Bible, Harvard professor James Kugel leads the reader chapter by chapter through the "quiet revolution" of recent biblical scholarship, showing time and again how radically the interpretations of today's researchers differ from what people have always thought. The story of Adam and Eve, it turns out, was not originally about the "Fall of Man," but about the move from a primitive, hunter-gatherer society to a settled, agricultural one. As for the stories of Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Esau, these narratives were not, at their origin, about individual people at all but, rather, explanations of some feature of Israelite society as it existed centuries after these figures were said to have lived. Dinah was never raped -- her story was created by an editor to solve a certain problem in Genesis. In the earliest version of the Exodus story, Moses probably did not divide the Red Sea in half; instead, the Egyptians perished in a storm at sea. Whatever the original Ten Commandments might have been, scholars are quite sure they were different from the ones we have today. What's more, the people long supposed to have written various books of the Bible were not, in the current consensus, their real authors: David did not write the Psalms, Solomon did not write Proverbs or Ecclesiastes; indeed, there is scarcely a book in the Bible that is not the product of different, anonymous authors and editors working in different periods.
Such findings pose a serious problem for adherents of traditional, Bible-based faiths. Hiding from the discoveries of modern scholars seems dishonest, but accepting them means undermining much of the Bible's reliability and authority as the word of God. What to do? In his search for a solution, Kugel leads the reader back to a group of ancient biblical interpreters who flourished at the end of the biblical period. Far from naïve, these interpreters consciously set out to depart from the original meaning of the Bible's various stories, laws, and prophecies -- and they, Kugel argues, hold the key to solving the dilemma of reading the Bible today.
How to Read the Bible is, quite simply, the best, most original book about the Bible in decades. It offers an unflinching, insider's look at the work of today's scholars, together with a sustained consideration of what the Bible was for most of its history -- before the rise of modern scholarship. Readable, clear, often funny but deeply serious in its purpose, this is a book for Christians and Jews, believers and secularists alike. It offers nothing less than a whole new way of thinking about sacred Scripture. [via]
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The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its Historyby James L. KugelISBN 0300031017 (0-300-03101-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Textsby James L. KugelISBN 0674445635 (0-674-44563-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts'Book summary:In this illuminating study of early biblical interpretation, James Kugel examines a series of exegetical stories that elaborate on the Joseph narrative in Genesis. These stories--which appear in such diverse source as rabbinic midrash, Christian writing, liturgical poetry, and the Qur'an--often contain details or whole incidents not found in the Bible itself. In tracing the development and function of these tales, Kugel reveals a dynamic interpretive process: the living, changing significance of texts through generations of discussion, analysis, and application.
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The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob And His Childrenby James L. KugelISBN 0691121222 (0-691-12122-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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On Being a Jewby James L. KugelISBN 0801859433 (0-8018-5943-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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On Being a Jew: A Brief Presentation of Jewish Practices and Belief Which, Being Written As a Dialogue in Defense of Tradition, Might Otherwise Be Cby James L. KugelISBN 0060649089 (0-06-064908-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Traditionby James L. KugelISBN 0801495687 (0-8014-9568-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Prayers That Cite Scriptureby James L. KugelISBN 0674019717 (0-674-01971-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayers That Cite Scripture'Book summary:In the beginning, prayers were straightforward: people turned to God and asked for help. By the closing centuries of the biblical period, however, a change became observable. Prayers now began to include references to Scripture--allusions to biblical stories in which God had answered a prayer, or the evocation of specific biblical passages, or the recycling of biblical phrases in the creation of a new prayer. This process, the "Scripturalization of prayer," grew in intensity and refinement as Judaism moved from the biblical period to early post-biblical times. It is attested throughout the prayers found in the biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and early piyyut, and it continued apace in the liturgical compositions of the Geonic period and still later times. This collection of essays seeks to chart the main lines of the Scripturalization of prayer over this entire period.
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Studies in Ancient Midrashby James L. Kugel , Gary A. Anderson, A. I. Baumgarten, Moshe J. BernsteinISBN 067400258X (0-674-00258-X)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Techniques of Strangeness in Symbolist Poetryby James L. KugelISBN 0300013523 (0-300-01352-3)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Eraby James L. KugelISBN 0674791517 (0-674-79151-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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