How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now - Dr. James L Kugel, PH.D.
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Scholars from different fields have joined forces to reexamine every aspect of the Hebrew Bible. Their research, carried out in universities and seminaries in Europe and America, has revolutionized our understanding of almost every chapter and verse. But have they killed the Bible in the process?
In How to Read the Bible, Harvard professor James Kugel leads the reader chapter by chapter through the “quiet revolution” of recent biblical scholarship, showing time and again 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, these narratives were not, at their origin, about individual people at all but, rather, explanations of some feature of Israelite society as it existed centuries after these figures were said to have lived. Dinah was never raped — her story was created by an editor to solve a certain problem in Genesis. 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, in the current consensus, their real authors: David did not write the Psalms, Solomon did not write Proverbs or Ecclesiastes; indeed, there is scarcely a book in the Bible that is not the product of different, anonymous authors and editors working in different periods.
Such findings pose a serious 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 reader back to a group of ancient biblical interpreters who flourished at the end of the biblical period. Far from naïve, these interpreters consciously set out to depart from the original meaning of the Bible’s various stories, laws, 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 book about the Bible in decades. It offers an unflinching, insider’s look at the work of today’s scholars, together with a sustained consideration of what the Bible was for most of its history — before the rise of modern scholarship. Readable, clear, often funny but deeply serious in its purpose, this is a book for Christians and Jews, believers and secularists alike. It offers nothing less than a whole new way of thinking about sacred Scripture.
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This post has 15 comments with rating of 4/5
June 26th, 2020
Thanks!
June 26th, 2020
Thou shalt not steal. LOL. Audio toilet paper.
June 26th, 2020
…in addition to everything else, you misunderstand the elementary purpose of toilet paper.
Nice one, ninimimi!
June 26th, 2020
How to read the bible…one word: Don’t.
June 26th, 2020
madhunt, th Bible is a central book.If not for religious reasons, even for cultural intelligence.Even if you are not a believer, the book offers much in challenging traditional beliefs.This is not a Catechism or Book of Daily Prayers if you had that in mind. If you don’t want to read the Bible, I have no problem with that.If you don’t want to read this book, that is fine too. But read the blurb at least before summarily dismissing the book.This is a book of deep scholarship from a former Harvard professor, not a book of evangelicals.
June 26th, 2020
I conjecture that the good professor intends that you not read it when full of hostility & hatred; clouded by high-sterical resentment, bigotry or prejudice, bent on expedient misinterpretation & distorting decontextualisation. Also, p’haps don’t read it while hungover.
June 26th, 2020
Not History. Misc. Non-Fiction at best. Mythology in reality.
June 26th, 2020
Alpine59, have you read the book? It examines deeply the history of the Bible, how it was written, the cultural context in which it was written, the common misconceptions due to reading it out of that historical context, the many editing that were done to fit sicio-economic and cultural needs of historical societies, et cetera, et cetera. Surely there must be some history in that, no?
June 26th, 2020
Actually, the history rubric is perfectly correct, as it’s a study of how the Bible has been variously interpreted over time; the divers books of the Bible themselves having had the greatest impact on the growth & development of Western Civilisation. This of course comprises jurisprudence, ethics & morality, philiosophy, literature, art, politics, economics, Civil & Human Rights, as well as the course of history itself (that list is not exhaustive).
Y’know, the small stuff. This is a book site, these things should not have to be explained.
June 26th, 2020
Do as they say, Not as they do. Then do what you want!
June 27th, 2020
…and be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
June 28th, 2020
Thank you for this!
July 12th, 2020
This should be under fiction
August 14th, 2020
thank you! i have this book. is there a way to upload a smaller sized copy? why is it so large?
November 3rd, 2021
ninimimi - I agree 100% as a nonbeliever I would recommend anyone remotely interested on the development of Western thought to rear the book, only small minds would shun knowledge - madhunt you are selling yourself short - you may learn something
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