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Article: The Bible As It Was.(Review)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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James L. Kugel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. $35.00 (cloth).
A book browser might think from the title of this volume that its author is concerned with the compositional and editorial problems of the Bible, those very problems on which modern biblical criticism has expended so much effort, and regarding which so many studies are already available. The opposite is the case. Kugel is not concerned with getting back to original texts in the critical mode. Rather, he sees the Bible as a collection of sacred texts to which a large number of creative readers - rabbis, Jewish commentators, Christian theologians, and others - devoted themselves in ...