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Early Biblical Interpretation
Av James L. Kugel, Rowan A. Greer
Häftad, 1986
436 kr
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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.
Bible As It Was
Häftad, 1999
334 kr
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This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous, ancient interpreters …
Traditions of the Bible
A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era
Inbunden, 1999
1218 kr
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James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been welcomed with universal praise. Here now is the full scholarly edition of this wonderfully rich and illuminating work, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch--from …
Ladder of Jacob
Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, …
God of Old
Inside the Lost World of the Bible
Häftad, 2004
267 kr
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Our notion of God today -- all-powerful, invisible, and omnipresent -- is not the same as the God of the Hebrew Bible. So who is this "God of Old?" And what is His place in the modern spiritual world? James Kugel is renowned for his investigations into the history of the biblical era, a time …
Outside the Bible, 3-volume Set
Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture
Av Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel m. fl.
2013
3949 kr
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Customers in Europe should contact Combined Academic Publishers to order a copy of this book.Browse the Table of ContentsThe Hebrew Bible is only part of ancient Israel's writings. Another collection of Jewish works has survived from late- and post-biblical times, a great library that bears witness …
Ladder of Jacob
Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children
E-bok, 2009
387 kr
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Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob''s oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father''s concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, …
Great Poems of the Bible
Reader's Companion with New Translations
Häftad, 2008
335 kr
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James Kugel, acclaimed Harvard scholar and former poetry editor of Harpers Magazine, selects eighteen essential poems from the Hebrew Bible and offers his own original and articulate translations of these core pieces of religious literature. Kugel's eloquent renditions are paired with deeply …
How to Read the Bible
A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Ljudbok, 2008
731 kr
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In How to Read the Bible , Harvard professor James Kugel leads the listener through the "quiet revolution" of recent biblical scholarship, showing 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 …
In the Valley of the Shadow
On the Foundations of Religious Belief
E-bok, 2011
146 kr
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TEN YEARS AGO, Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer. “I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music had suddenly stopped—the music of daily life that’s constantly going, the …
Great Poems of the Bible
A Reader''s Companion with New Translations
E-bok, 2012
213 kr
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James Kugel, acclaimed Harvard scholar and former poetry editor of Harpers Magazine, selects eighteen essential poems from the Hebrew Bible and offers his own original and articulate translations of these core pieces of religious literature. Kugel''s eloquent renditions are paired with deeply …
How to Read the Bible
A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
E-bok, 2012
253 kr
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James Kugel’s essential introduction and companion to the Bible combines modern scholarship with the wisdom of ancient interpreters for the entire Hebrew Bible. As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” ( The New York Times ), “wonderfully …
Walk through Jubilees
Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of its Creation
Inbunden, 2012
3587 kr
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The first part of this book is an extensive verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Jubilees. Kugel's stated aim is "to understand what the text is saying and why it is saying it," and in particular to explore the numerous bits of biblical interpretation found in Jubilees and their connection to …
