Overview :What should a Jew consider before marrying a non-Jew? What should a Jew know about Hebrew? What does it mean to keep the Sabbath? In the Med... Read More
Overview :This highly accessible book discusses how the early Jewish and Christian communities went about interpreting Scripture.The Library of Early ... Read More
Overview :This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation an... Read More
Overview :A world-renowned scholar reveals how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the biblical era made us who we are today A gre... Read More
Overview :Our notion of God today -- all-powerful, invisible, and omnipresent -- is not the same as the God of the Hebrew Bible. So who is this "God o... Read More
Overview :In The Great Poems of the Bible, James Kugel, acclaimed Harvard scholar and former poetry editor of Harpers Magazine, selects eighteen ess... Read More
Overview :As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, "awesome, thrilling" (The New York Times), "wonderfully intere... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standa... Read More
Overview :Ten years ago, when Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer, "I was, of course, disturb... Read More