An edition of Traditions of the Bible (1998)

Traditions of the Bible

a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era

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An edition of Traditions of the Bible (1998)

Traditions of the Bible

a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era

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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 attained its final form, its stories, songs, commandments, and prophecies had begun to be interpreted.

A body of traditions about what the words meant quickly developed and took its place at the center of Judaism and Christianity. Kugel explains how and why the writers of this formative age of interpretation - roughly 200 B.C.E. to 150 C.E. - assumed such a significant role.

Mining their writings - including the Dead Sea Scrolls, works of Philo and Josephus and letters of the Apostle Paul, and writings of the Apostolic Fathers and the rabbinic Sages - he quotes for us the seminal passages that uncover this crucial interpretive process.

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Traditions of the Bible
2009, Harvard University Press
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Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era
January 3, 1999, Harvard University Press
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Cover of: Traditions of the Bible
Traditions of the Bible: a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era
1998, Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 951-980) and index.
Rev. ed. of: The Bible as it was. 1997.

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Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
222/.106/09
Library of Congress
BS1225.2 .K85 1998, BS1225.2.K85 1998, BS1225

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xx, 1055 p. :
Number of pages
1055

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OL366312M
ISBN 10
0674791517
LCCN
98026763
OCLC/WorldCat
39229767
Library Thing
90944
Goodreads
1553787

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