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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

How to Read the Bible

A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

by James L. Kugel

Kugel walks through the Hebrew Bible book by book, contrasting the ways ancient interpreters read it with the findings of modern scholarship. He asks what is lost and gained when the Bible is read historically. A thoughtful and engaging study by a leading scholar of biblical interpretation.

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