Status
Available
Description
"This is a companion to the Bible like no other. Leading us chapter by chapter through key biblical stories - from Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and journey to the Promised Land - James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. Here, for the first time, we can witness the development of the Bible "As It Was" at the start of the common era - the Bible as we know it."--Jacket.
Collection
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [1999], c1997.
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — General Nonfiction — 1997)
Grawemeyer Awards (Winner — Religion — 2001)
Language
Original publication date
1997
Physical description
xiii, 680 p.; 26 cm
ISBN
9780674069411
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