Traditions of the Bible : a guide to the Bible as it was at the start of the common era / James L. Kugel.

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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Main Author: Kugel, James L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Egyp
  • 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