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

Kugel, James L.

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ISBN 10: 074323586X ISBN 13: 9780743235860

Casa editrice: Free Pr, 2007

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

James L. Kugel is Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University, and a regular visiting Professor of Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.  He is the author of a number of books of biblical scholarship, including How to Read the Bible (2007), for which he won the National Jewish Book Award for best book, The Great Poems of the Bible (1999), and The Bible As It Was (1997). In 2001, Kugel was awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Prize in Religion.  He lives in Jerusalem, Israel, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Free Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 074323586X
• ISBN 13: 9780743235860
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 819
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile