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

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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James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been welcomed with universal praise. Here now is the full scholarly edition of this wonderfully rich and illuminating work, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Kugel, James L.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1998
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1077 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Abbreviations
  • Terms and Sources
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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