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| 1. |  | How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now from Free Press Price: $23.10 Customer Review:  This is a truly excellent reference book for anyone interested in the history of Biblical interpretation. Indeed, the book might more accurately be called "How the Bible has been Read," since for any given section, it gives an overview of traditional readings, both Christian and Jewish, followed by... |
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| 2. |  | The Bible As It Was from Belknap Press Price: $37.50 Customer Review: Dr. Kugel sets out to produce a mixture of ancient and modern interpretations and does a wonderful job at it. While most of the interpretations are ancient coming from interpreters such as Philo, and others, Dr. Kugel helps explain them more smoothly by writing a brief analysis of each... |
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| 3. |  | The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible from Free Press Price: $11.05 Customer Review: Kugel is one of the world's foremost Bible scholars. In this work he makes an effort to understand what he calls , "The God of Old". He distinguishes between the conception of God created in the Babylonian Exile in which God is omnipotent and omniscient. With this he contrasts the "God of Old" Who... |
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| 4. |  | The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations from Free Press Price: $11.70 Customer Review:  though often they seemed to me to display a keen grasp of the obvious. I liked the first couple of essays the best: these focused on the theological "big picture" emphasizing that ancient Jews were more aware than many moderns of God's bigness and humans' own smallness, and describing the soul as... |
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| 5. |  | The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children from Princeton University Press Price: $16.47 Customer Review: The author use the apocryphal Dead Sea Scrolls to give interpretations of about a dozen stories from the Torah. Some of these accounts actually give conflicting details. Kugel steps in and explains how by manipulating semantics and expanding midrashic interpretations they can made congruous. He... |
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| 6. | [no image] | Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History from Yale Univ Pr Customer Review: This book is rich in its knowledge of and analysis of Biblical poetry. It sees the kind of intensification of language which poetry is by examining the device of parallelism which is a central feature of Biblical poetry. While the book is rich in analysis and idea I found it very difficult... |
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| 7. |  | In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts from Harvard University Press Price: $25.50 | |
| 8. |  | Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era from Harvard University Press Price: $80.40 Customer Review: I bought this book because I previously read Kugel's "How to read the Bible: A guide to Scripture, Then and Now". I liked both of them a lot, although I admit that the latter is easy reading compared to the former. The Hebrew language seems to have been a rather ambiguous language, given that... |
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| 9. |  | Early Biblical Interpretation (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 3) from Westminster John Knox Press Price: $29.95 Customer Review: "In the matter of biblical interpretation, if we are not to fantasize about the imperfections and the mistakes of the past, we have to take a close look at how past scholars have made sense of Holy Writ and to ask whether what they said is useful or misleading, perceptive or simply outdated?"... |
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| 10. |  | Prayers that Cite Scripture: Biblical Quotation in Jewish Prayers from Antiquity through the Middle Ages (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies) from Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies Price: $27.50 | |
| 11. | [no image] | In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of a Biblical Text from Harpercollins | |
| 12. | [no image] | Bible As It Was from BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIV | |
| 13. |  | Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Tradition (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) from Cornell University Press Customer Review: "By the grace of God, you (Muhammad) are neither soothsayer nor madman. Do they say; "He is but a poet: we are waiting for some misfortune to befell him?' "sura 52:29 Artistic Demons & Prophetic Inspiration: It is always said that poets and prophets have something in common. The... |
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| 14. | [no image] | 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 C from Harpercollins | |
| 15. | [no image] | The Bible As It Was from The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | |
| 16. | [no image] | The Bible as it was. from Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, [ | |
| 17. | [no image] | Early Biblical Interpretation from Westminster Press | |
| 18. |  | The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) from Brill Academic Publishers Price: $188.00 | |
| 19. | [no image] | IDEA OF BIBLICAL POETRY: PARALLELISM AND ITS HISTORY. from Yale University Press | |
| 20. |  | Shem in the Tents of Japhet: Essays on the Encounter of Judaism and Hellenism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) from Brill Academic Publishers Price: $113.00 | |
| 21. | [no image] | Studies in Ancient Midrash (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies) from Harvard Center for Jewish Studies | |
| 22. | [no image] | Techniques of Strangeness in Symbolist Poetry (Yale College) from Yale University Press | |
| 23. | [no image] | THE IDEA OF BIBLICAL PORTRY, PARALLELISM AND ITS HISTORY from Yale | |
| 24. | [no image] | 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 C from Harpercollins | |
| 25. | [no image] | Shem in the Tents of Japhet from Brill Academic Pub 01/1//2002 | |
| 26. | [no image] | The Techniques of Strangeness in Symbolist Poetry from Yale University Press | |
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