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Product Description: Ten years ago, when Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer, “I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that . . . the background music had suddenly stopped...read more

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9781439130094 | Free Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $26.00

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9781439130100 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, November 1, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Ten years ago, when Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer, “I was, of course, disturbed and worried.

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9781452600482 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 1, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: When James L.
9781452650487 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 1, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: When James L.

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Product Description: When James L. Kugel, one of the world's leading biblical scholars, was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal form of cancer, he said, "I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music suddenly stopped...read more

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9781452630489, titled "In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 1, 2011), cover price $71.99 | About this edition: When James L.

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9780691121222 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 10, 2006, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780691141237 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 9, 2009, cover price $28.95

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By Hindy Najman (editor) and Judith H. Newman (editor)

Hardcover:

9789004136304 | Brill Academic Pub, December 1, 2003, cover price $262.00

Paperback:

9781589833876 | Society of Biblical Literature, October 30, 2008, cover price $65.95

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Product Description: In The Great Poems of the Bible, James Kugel, acclaimed Harvard scholar and former poetry editor of Harpers Magazine, selects eighteen essential poems from the Hebrew Bible and offers his own original and articulate translations of these core pieces of religious literature...read more

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9780684857749, titled "The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations" | Free Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A renowned poet and biblical scholar translates the great poetry of the Bible, collecting it here in an impressively bound anthology of psalms, songs, prophecies, and proverbs that will appeal to any reader.
9780756763916, titled "Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations" | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1999, cover price $23.00

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9781416589020, titled "The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations" | Reprint edition (Free Pr, October 21, 2008), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In The Great Poems of the Bible, James Kugel, acclaimed Harvard scholar and former poetry editor of Harpers Magazine, selects eighteen essential poems from the Hebrew Bible and offers his own original and articulate translations of these core pieces of religious literature.
9780743253260, titled "The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion With New Translations" | Free Pr, February 25, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This beautifully designed volume is a unique reader's companion to the most beautiful poems of the Bible, newly translated by a renowned poet and biblical scholar.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780743235860 | Free Pr, September 11, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history.

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9780743235877 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, October 21, 2008), cover price $22.00

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9781423365792 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 21, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: 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.
9781423365778 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 21, 2008), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781423365808 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 21, 2008), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: 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.
9781423365785 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 21, 2008), cover price $119.97 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: In the beginning, prayers were straightforward: people turned to God and asked for help. By the closing centuries of the biblical period, however, a change became observable. Prayers now began to include references to Scripture--allusions to biblical stories in which God had answered a prayer, or the evocation of specific biblical passages, or the recycling of biblical phrases in the creation of a new prayer...read more
By James L. Kugel (editor)

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9780674019713 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 31, 2006, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In the beginning, prayers were straightforward: people turned to God and asked for help.

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A portrait of God as envisioned by early Israelites describes Him as an accessible inhabitant of a parallel spiritual world who was human-like in appearance and who often made Himself known to people. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780743235846 | Free Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A portrait of God as envisioned by early Israelites describes him as an accessible inhabitant of a parallel spiritual world who was human-like in appearance and who often made himself known to people.

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9780743235853 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 1, 2004), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A portrait of God as envisioned by early Israelites describes Him as an accessible inhabitant of a parallel spiritual world who was human-like in appearance and who often made Himself known to people.

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Product Description: These essays, by some of today s greatest scholars of Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity, explore a variety of ways in which these two great civilizations interacted. The common focus of these studies is the transition from one culture to the next how words or concepts or conventions from the one came to be transplanted, and often modified in the process, in the other...read more
By James L. Kugel (editor)

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9789004125148 | Brill Academic Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $181.00 | About this edition: These essays, by some of today s greatest scholars of Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity, explore a variety of ways in which these two great civilizations interacted.

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Product Description: Studies in Ancient Midrash is the proceedings of a conference, held at Harvard University, surveying the beginnings of ancient biblical interpretation. Essays include "Ancient Biblical Interpretation and the Biblical Sage," by James Kugel; "Literacy and the Polemics Surrounding Biblical Interpretation," by A...read more
By James L. Kugel (editor)

Hardcover:

9780674002586 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Studies in Ancient Midrash is the proceedings of a conference, held at Harvard University, surveying the beginnings of ancient biblical interpretation.

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A professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University explains how the anonymous, ancient interpreters of the Old Testament radically changed its stories, prophecies, and meanings, shaping it into the version accepted today by Jews and Christians alike. UP. (view table of contents)

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9780674069404 | Belknap Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: A professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University explains how the anonymous, ancient interpreters of the Old Testament radically changed its stories, prophecies, and meanings, shaping it into the version accepted today by Jews and Christians alike.

Paperback:

9780674069411 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $35.50

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Examines the use of structural parallelism in Old Testament poetry and discusses Hebrew poetry, prose and the meter of biblical songs

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9780801859441, titled "The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History" | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 5, 1998), cover price $28.00
9780300031010 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1983), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Examines the use of structural parallelism in Old Testament poetry and discusses Hebrew poetry, prose and the meter of biblical songs

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Product Description: Composed as a meandering dialogue between a wily Syrian-Jewish banker and an American graduate student of literature, this engaging book explains all the basic beliefs and practices of Judaism―Jewish teachings on intermarriage and conversion, keeping the Sabbath, prayer and Torah, midrash and mitzvot, and God's presence in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801859434 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 20, 1998), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Composed as a meandering dialogue between a wily Syrian-Jewish banker and an American graduate student of literature, this engaging book explains all the basic beliefs and practices of Judaism―Jewish teachings on intermarriage and conversion, keeping the Sabbath, prayer and Torah, midrash and mitzvot, and God's presence in the world.

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By James L. Kugel (editor)

Hardcover:

9780801423109 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $42.50

Paperback:

9780801495687 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: See Amazon detail page.

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Product Description: This is A 186 page hardback with dust jacket authored by James L. Kugel and published by Harper Collins.

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9780060649074 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1990, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This is A 186 page hardback with dust jacket authored by James L.

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Answers a wide range of questions on the ways of traditional Judaism, and reflects on some of the deepest themes in Jewish practice and belief

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9780060649081 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1990, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Answers a wide range of questions on the ways of traditional Judaism, and reflects on some of the deepest themes in Jewish practice and belief

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Discusses the history and diversity of early interpretation and the influence of Jewish traditions

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9780664219079 | Westminster John Knox Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history and diversity of early interpretation and the influence of Jewish traditions

Paperback:

9780664250133 | Reprint edition (Westminster John Knox Pr, January 1, 1988), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Discusses the history and diversity of early interpretation and the influence of Jewish traditions

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