Biblical Criticism & Interpretation
- The Bible As It Was
- James L. Kugel
- This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the 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.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- The Genesis of Secrecy
- Frank Kermode
- Drawing on the venerable tradition of biblical interpretation, Kermode examines some enigmatic passages and episodes in the gospels. From his reading come ideas about what makes interpretation possible--and often impossible. He considers ways in which narratives acquire opacity, and he asks whether there are methods of distinguishing all possible meaning from a central meaning which gives the story its structure.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- The Literary Guide to the Bible
- Robert Alter, Editor
- Frank Kermode, Editor
- Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990
- Out of the Whirlwind
- Kathryn Schifferdecker
- The book of Job is a complex treatment of the problem of undeserved suffering. It is also a sustained meditation on creation, on humanity's place in creation, and on God's ordering of creation. In this study, Schifferdecker offers a close literary and theological reading of the book of Job--particularly of God's speeches at the end of the book--in order to articulate its creation theology, which is particularly pertinent in our environmentally-conscious age.
- Paperback 2008
- Ruin the Sacred Truths
- Harold Bloom
- Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991
- Traditions of the Bible
- James L. Kugel
- James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been universally praised. Here now is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. For this full-scale reference work Kugel has added a substantial treasury of sources and passages for each of the twenty-four Bible stories.
- Hardcover 1999