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Traditions of the Bible : A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (1078 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674039766
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Traditions of the BibleLOC classification:
  • BS1225.2 .K85 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- 12. Jacob and the Angel -- 13. Dinah -- 14. Joseph's Ups and Downs -- 15. Jacob's Sons in Egypt -- 16. Growing Up in Pharaoh's Court -- 17. The Exodus from Egypt -- 18. The Red Sea -- 19. Into the Wilderness -- 20. At Mt. Sinai -- 21. The Golden Calf -- 22. Worship in the Wilderness -- 23. Trouble along the Way -- 24. The Bronze Serpent, Balaam, and Phinehas -- 25. The Life of Torah -- 26. Afterword.
Summary: Kugel's The Bible As It Was has been universally praised. Here is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference. Focusing on 24 core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book we know today.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- 12. Jacob and the Angel -- 13. Dinah -- 14. Joseph's Ups and Downs -- 15. Jacob's Sons in Egypt -- 16. Growing Up in Pharaoh's Court -- 17. The Exodus from Egypt -- 18. The Red Sea -- 19. Into the Wilderness -- 20. At Mt. Sinai -- 21. The Golden Calf -- 22. Worship in the Wilderness -- 23. Trouble along the Way -- 24. The Bronze Serpent, Balaam, and Phinehas -- 25. The Life of Torah -- 26. Afterword.

Kugel's The Bible As It Was has been universally praised. Here is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference. Focusing on 24 core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book we know today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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