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James L. Kugel

James L. Kugel
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James L. Kugel

James L. Kugel is Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University, and a regular visiting Professor of Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of a number of books of biblical scholarship, including How to Read the Bible (2007), for which he won the National Jewish Book Award for best book, The Great Poems of the Bible (1999), and The Bible As It Was (1997). In 2001, Kugel was awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Prize in Religion. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Faith And The ‘C’ Word
Jewish Week, October 25, 2011
...James Kugel reflects on his battle with cancer and what he learned from it. Best known for his series of books on reading and understanding the Bible, James Kugel, emeritus professor...
Cultures Ancient and Modern, Daniel J. Harrington
America Magazine, March 2, 2012
...culture, this book is a both a healthy corrective and a hopeful sign of positive developments within evangelicalism. James L. Kugel’s In the Valley of the Shadow (Free Press) is an exercise in biblical theology, autobiography and modern culture. Kugel...
Cultures Ancient and Modern
America Magazine, March 2, 2012
...culture, this book is a both a healthy corrective and a hopeful sign of positive developments within evangelicalism. James L. Kugel’s In the Valley of the Shadow (Free Press) is an exercise in biblical theology, autobiography and modern culture. Kugel...
Jubilees and Second Temple Judaism(s)
, August 12, 2011
...muddy the waters for us a bit before we continue: the interpretation of sacred texts. I believe that James Kugel can help us out a bit here. In his book How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture Then and Now James Kugel offers four assumptions of...