TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kugel,James L.
TI  - Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era
SN  - 9780674039766
AV  - BS1225.2 .K85 1998 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Bible.--O.T.--Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History
KW  - Theology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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