Traditions of the Bible
a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era
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Author
Contributions
- Kugel, James L. - Contributor
Publication
1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
263,750 words, Guess
Page Count
1,055 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7693475M
- ISBN-139780674791510
- ISBN-100674791517
- Goodreads1553787
- LibraryThing90944
Classifications
- DDC222/.106/09
- LCCBS1225.2 .K85 1998
Description
Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch - from the Creation and Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and journey to the Promised Land - James Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. Even before the Bible had attained its final form, its stories, songs, commandments, and prophecies had begun to be interpreted. A body of traditions about what the words meant quickly developed and took its place at the center of Judaism and Christianity. Kugel explains how and why the writers of this formative age of interpretation - roughly 200 B.C.E. to 150 C.E. - assumed such a significant role. Mining their writings - including the Dead Sea Scrolls, works of Philo and Josephus and letters of the Apostle Paul, and writings of the Apostolic Fathers and the rabbinic Sages - he quotes for us the seminal passages that uncover this crucial interpretive process.
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