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How to Read the Bible - A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (Standard format, CD, Library ed.)
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How to Read the Bible - A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (Standard format, CD, Library ed.)
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In How to Read the Bible, Harvard professor James Kugel leads the
listener through the "quiet revolution" of recent biblical
scholarship, showing how radically the interpretations of today's
researchers differ from what people have always thought. The story
of Adam and Eve, it turns out, was not originally about the "Fall
of Man," but about the move from a primitive, hunter-gatherer
society to a settled, agricultural one. As for the stories of Cain
and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Esau, they were not
about individual people at all but, rather, explanations of
Israelite society as it existed centuries after these figures were
said to have lived. In the earliest version of the Exodus story,
Moses probably did not divide the Red Sea in half; instead, the
Egyptians perished in a storm at sea. Whatever the original Ten
Commandments might have been, scholars are quite sure they were
different from the ones we have today. What's more, the people long
supposed to have written various books of the Bible were not their
real authors: David did not write the Psalms, Solomon did not write
Proverbs.
Such findings pose a problem for adherents of traditional,
Bible-based faiths. Hiding from the discoveries of modern scholars
seems dishonest, but accepting them means undermining much of the
Bible's reliability and authority as the word of God. What to do?
In his search for a solution, Kugel leads the listener back to
ancient biblical interpreters who flourished at the end of the
biblical period. Far from naAve, these interpreters consciously set
out to depart from the original meaning of the Bible's various
stories and prophecies - and they, Kugel argues, hold the key to
solving the dilemma of reading the Bible today.
How to Read the Bible is, quite simply, the best, most original
audiobook about the Bible in decades. Clear, often funny, but
deeply serious in its purpose, this is a book for Christians and
Jews, believers and secularists alike.
General
Imprint: |
Brilliance Audio
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2008 |
First published: |
October 2008 |
Authors: |
James L Kugel
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Readers: |
Mel Foster
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Dimensions: |
175 x 203 x 61mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Standard format
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Disks: |
30 |
Running time: |
2160 minutes |
Edition: |
Library ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4233-6578-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4233-6578-X |
Barcode: |
9781423365785 |
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