Traditions of the Bible : a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era / James L. K...
Traditions of the Bible : a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era / James L. K...
Traditions of the Bible : a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era / James L. Kugel.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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T0384704
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English
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Physical content
xx, 1055 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. The World of Ancient Biblical Interpreters -- 2. The Creation of the World -- 3. Adam and Eve -- 4. Cain and Abel -- 5. Noah and the Flood -- 6. The Tower of Babel -- 7. Abraham Journeys from Chaldea -- 8. Melchizedek -- 9. The Trials of Abraham -- 10. Lot and Lot's Wife -- 11. Jacob and Esau --...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
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 attai...
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Traditions of the Bible : a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era / James L. Kugel.
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Rev. ed. of: The Bible as it was. 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 951-980) and index.
Transferred from N222.10609/2.
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T0384704
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ISBN
0674791517 (alk. paper)
9780674791510 (alk. paper)
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222.10609
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991011399809702626
