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

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

As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, â€œawesome, thrillingâ€ (The New York Times), â€œwonderfully interesting, extremely well presentedâ€ (The Washington Post), and â€œa tour de force...a stunning narrativeâ€ (Publishers Weekly). Now in its tenth year of publication, the book remains the clearest, most inviting and readable guide to the Hebrew Bible aroundâ€”and a profound meditation on the effect that modern biblical scholarship has had on traditional belief.

Moving chapter by chapter, Harvard professor James Kugel covers the Bibleâ€™s most significant storiesâ€”the Creation of the world, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and his wives, Moses and the exodus, Davidâ€™s mighty kingdom, plus the writings of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the other prophets, and on to the Babylonian conquest and the eventual return to Zion.

Throughout, Kugel contrasts the way modern scholars understand these events with the way Christians and Jews have traditionally understood them. The latter is not, Kugel shows, a naÃ¯ve reading; rather, it is the product of a school of sophisticated interpreters who flourished toward the end of the biblical period. These highly ideological readers sought to put their own spin on texts that had been around for centuries, utterly transforming them in the process. Their interpretations became what the Bible meant for centuries and centuriesâ€”until modern scholarship came along. The question that this book ultimately asks is: What now? As one reviewer wrote, Kugelâ€™s answer provides â€œa contemporary model of how to read Sacred Scripture amidst the oppositional pulls of modern scholarship and tradition.â€

Country	USA
Author	James L. Kugel
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781451689099
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
NumberOfPages	852
PublicationDate	2012-05-01
Publisher	Free Press
ReleaseDate	2012-05-01
Studio	Free Press

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

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